(R)asmussen GOP Primary POLL: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%

[jefferson_dem]

GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.

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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/gop_primary_perry_29_romney_18_bachmann_13

[scheming daemons]

1. Mitt's team: "Scott Rasmussen didn't call enough corporations. Corporations are people too!"

[BeyondGeography]

2. Early for polls and all but Romney's base looks awfully thin

Perry and Bachmann voters will mostly wind up supportimg the same candidate and it won't be Mittens.

[AndyTiedye]

3. PLEASE, NOT ANOTHER MAD COWBOY GOVERNOR FROM TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO!!!!!!

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. this one would make "W" sound like the American Friends Service Committee and Amnesty International

all rolled into one.

[AndyTiedye]

14. The Thought of It Inspired Me to Spin This Up

[RBInMaine]

4. I'd LOVE it if that secessionist ultra-pro-corporate whore who thinks SS is unconstitutional got it.

He's a fucking teawhacko nut. We'll paint him as a Bush clone on steroids who wants to kill SS and Medicare, and seniors will bail on this asswhipe bigtime.

[AndyTiedye]

7. But the Tee Vee Tells them They Must LOVE Cowboys, So They DO

He might get enough votes to "win" (the same way another Texan did, but with extra "help" from 27 states instead of just 1).

[ProDem4]

23. Your gonna get your wish.

Unfortunately Maine doesn't elect Presidents.

Florida, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, does.

And unless people ignore Obamas record Perry can win those states.

Its crazy to discount how much trouble our President is in with Middle Americans.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Leading were first Trump, then Bachmann, now Bush III!

Talk about a reflexive Republican electorate.
They just go with who Fox most promotes, I guess! :shrug:

[Cosmocat]

25. Perry is their guy ...

I felt it was two way race with him and mittens since May ... I felt he would take about half of Bachman's support and chip into Romney and be in the 20s within a month or two. For him to be there less than a week after announcing is really bad for Romney/good for Perry.

The party is full out off the rails, and it is looking for a full out off the rails candidate - hence the support Bachmann has had. But, the establishment knows she is not a for real presidential candidate. Perry, as a governor of Texas is the best of both worlds for Rs - he has the "executive experience" that gives Romney legitimacy while unlike Romney being an alpha male who comes off as being a true believer in their ridiculousness.

[golfguru]

8. Perry can't be that bad, he was Al Gore's campaign chairman

for Texas (I think). This guy will say anything to get elected.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. He Was Al Gores's 88 TX Campaign Manager

When Al Gore was perceived as a conservative Democrat.

[treestar]

10. Perry is getting new kid on the block treatment

He's just the latest and most interesting.

[leftynyc]

11. The day I believe a rass poll

just go ahead and call the men with the butterfly nets. faux new's dedicated pollster is a fraud.

[Silent3]

12. There's no particular reason to disbelieve this particular poll, however.

Republican preferences are still very soft and pliable at this stage, easily swayed by the "new flavor of the day" effect, by the fact that Perry hasn't been on the national scene long enough yet for familiarity to breed contempt.

[leftynyc]

16. I understand your point

but given their ridiculous numbers on other polls, I simply just discount anything they put out - even when I like the results.

[Renew Deal]

13. Cain is beating Gingrich

lol

[Azathoth]

15. Romney just doesn't get the message.

Dude's been campaigning continuously for five years straight and he hasn't broken 25% in a single poll. Now he's running against Mad-Eye Bachmann for second place.

The GOP really, really, really doesn't want you, Mitt.

[Change Happens]

17. I hope Romney spends about $200 million destroying Perry, and I hope

Batshitmann raises another $250 million and spends it destroying Perry :)

This is fun...

[shellgame26]

20. Yes it is..

:popcorn:

[Mass]

18. Since when did Rasmussen become a valid pollster? This is about as BS as his other polls.

[totodeinhere]

21. One study showed that Rasmussen was accurate

The Pew Research Center and Rasmussen Reports were the most accurate in predicting the results of the 2008 election, according to a new analysis by Fordham University political scientist Costas Panagopoulos.

http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/graduate_schools/gsas/elections_and_campaign_/poll%20accuracy%20in%20the%202008%20presidential%20election.pdf

[Mass]

22. In the last poll before the 2008 election. There are also many studies showing they are skewed to

the right.

[JCMach1]

19. Squirrel? Squirrel!

[blueclown]

24. Gotta hope these results hold.

And hope Bachmann wins Iowa and Perry wins South Carolina. In that case, we will have an ugly, three-way primary with a very exciting Super Tuesday.