Rick Perry: Standing not so tall in Texas

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By Paul Choiniere

Publication: The Day

Published 07/03/2011 12:00 AMUpdated 06/30/2011 05:35 PM0
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Having had the chance to see him up close and personal, I can safely say that Texas Gov. Rick Perry can command a room. Unfortunately, I can't comment on his question answering ability.



Perry, 61, is now contemplating a run for the presidency. I had the chance to hear him speak last September when attending the annual meeting of the National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW) in Dallas.



Entering the room, his was a big Texas gait, the steps long and shoulders turning with each stride. He quickly worked the room, shaking hands and patting shoulders. Perry seemed more to jump than step up to the platform where the podium was perched for his speech. Even then there was plenty of speculation that Perry would seek the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential election.



http://www.theday.com/article/20110703/OP04/307039903

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1. When there as much money behind you as Perry has, one

has no need to answer questions. You can run ads 24/7 tearing down your opponents and any ideas that aren't big business based. This man is a worse than GWB and that is enormously scary.

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2. true

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3. And now a computer predicts he can beat Obama

Texas on the Potomac blog San Antonio Express News 7/5/11

Perry Watch: A (nonpartisan) computer concludes that Rick Perry is the only Republican who can beat Obama

A forecasting model called PollyVote combines several index models for a well-rounded approach to predicting the next U.S. president. One of the models used in PollyVote is a biographical index, called PollyBio, that ranks candidates based on 59 biographical characteristics such as age, home state and athleticism.

“There’s a lot of research, especially in the field of psychology, on what makes people leaders and how do leaders emerge,” said Andreas Graefe, a researcher at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Graefe and J. Scott Armstrong, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton Shool, developed PollyVote and the bio index in 2008.

When they tested PollyBio on the past 29 presidential elections – from 1896 to 2008 – the forecast matched the actual outcome 27 times. The two it missed: Jimmy Carter’s 1976 election and Bill Clinton’s 1992 election.

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Oh please, please let Obama be like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton in beating this prediction.