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Rick Perry (photo: Gage Skidmore)
In the short period of time since Texas Governor Rick Perry officially joined the Republican President primary, every major polling operation has found him with a significant lead in their nationwide surveys. Quinnipiac is the latest pollster to confirm Perry’s status with a new poll showing him leading Mitt Romney by six points. From Quinnipiac:
Among Republicans and independent voters leaning Republican, Perry gets 24 percent to Romney’s 18 percent, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s 11 percent, Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s 10 percent, Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s 9 percent and businessman Herman Cain’s 5 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gets 3 percent, while former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, former Sen. Rick Santorum and Michigan U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter get 1 percent each.
Perry’s lead in this Quinnipiac poll is outside the poll’s margin of error but it is smaller than the 12-13 point lead found in recent national polls by Gallup, PPP and CNN.
There has been some debate about whether or not Mitt Romney would want Sarah Palin to join the race. Some think that Palin running would split the very conservative vote with Perry, therefore helping Romney where there are plurality victories in the primaries. Yet according to this Quinnipiac poll, at this time Palin’s presence in the race would have almost no effect on Perry’s lead over Romney. Without Palin as one of the options in the poll, Perry’s lead over Romney doesn’t change. In that scenario, it is Perry 26 percent, Romney 20 percent, and Bachmann at 12 percent.
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Poll dancing, entertainment for the masses who believe our electoral system is authentic.
I’d rather we kept in Texas than inflicted him on the rest of the nation.
It’ll be Perry or Romney. No other choice really
Close your eyes and he might as well be Palin
It is Perry’s to lose now. The debate is very important to him.
Or Bachmann or Paul for that matter. This is the best, really the only reason I am at all concerned about how Obama’s doing. I’m thinking, if I already don’t like how Obama is performing as Prez, how much more real harm can Perry or Bachmann or Palin or Paul do? My answer is way, way more harm. I can’t even tolerate the idea.
It’s better to be lucky than good. The Obama team would like nothing more than to run against Perry. The cowboy schtick won’t sell in the industrialized Midwest, which is where this election will be won.
Of course, it would be more “fun” if Palin ran and was nominated.
It will be won or lost in Ohio,
Looks like the choice will be between a bloviating, patronizing, corporate whore, backstabber,
and
an idiotic, religious, jingoistic, corporate whore, frontstabber.
The more things change…
Why would a progressive want to elect Perry just to punish the democrats? I was told last fall to stay home and punish the democrats. It is a very harsh punishment particularly to the unemployed, women and children. I have lived in Texas with him as governor for ten years. Unless you are well-off and can afford private everything, it is not so great.
Yes, the voting machines in “crucial swing states” will determine the outcome of the election.
“It is a very harsh punishment particularly to the unemployed, women and children.”
It’s a tough love. It’s like telling an alcoholic he’s got to quit cold turkey. It’s hard. It’s going to hurt. But he’s got to do it. Face the pain and turn it around.
Life’s a lot better off the kool-aide.
oh really, women should just give of the right to chose.
Sigh
No. What you should give up, is hope in a guy that is raking you over the coals.
He has the most of that
smirky eccentricitymean-hearted ignorance that privilege likes to parade, because they can. He looks and sounds like a caricature of a politician running for office. All hat, no cattle. Polished up to be the dandy-boy who will do as he is told.Absolutely right.
But Perry beliees and says some strange things and it’s a long way through the primaries. It will be very hard for him to keep his mouth shut and still participate in the various GOP debate forum without looking like the idiot he is.
Dude…you took the words right out of my mouth. Best description I’ve heard yet.
Let’s just put it this way that no matter what someone on a blog says I am not surrendering biblically to a man that believes in dominionism. You do what you want.
You’re talking here to the same people who still believe that there would have been no difference who you voted for in 2000 – Bush or Gore.
How did that work out?
“It’s a tough love.”
Easy to say if you’re not walking in the shoes of those millions of people.
You want another of those 8 years of that Bush-like “tough love”?
I know. My husband was one of those and he lived to regret it. I think there are some closeted teabaggers in the mix here.
Well, we didn’t get a President Joe Lieberman from a real simple mossad operation. As bad as things are, I’m pretty good with that.
Only someone that has a good job with health insurance can afford to say that.
keystone comedy, sans wisdom, honor, or integrity. We are for the roast.
Humanity need not apply here, the job no longer extant.
Empathy is forgotten
compassion lost
and we are dross
But all is not lost
it never is
Those of us who survive
will carry these qualities
paramount in our lives
fire for the engine
of our humanity
Perry’s a genuinely nice guy. He may get a little hokey at times, but he believes in what he says. I don’t know where Carlton lives, but I live in Austin, run with the Guv occasionally and he’s ok. Texas is the least depressed state in the nation currently and a great deal of that is because of Perry. And if you have to call it tough love, well, maybe the dems could use a little tough love themselves and quit spending everyone else money. A Romney/Perry ticket would be great
I hope the pistol he carries when he runs does not accidentally go off. Be careful. He is packing. He shot a coyote while he was jogging. Most people in Austin hate Perry.
reply to guiltybystander@20
I’m talking about seeing the situation as it really is. Equating another term of Obomba with helping millions of people is, well, totally baseless. He has so far contributed to eviscerating the middle class stomped on the lower class, and felatio-ed the 2% that own this country.
I would have to disagree..
I think perry is a pitcher
A top pitcher
So the horse’s ass in ahead of the other horse’s nostrils. How nauseating.
Guess you want to give the Texas oilmen another chance. So be it.
Please explain how voting for this guy is any different.
this guy
Got this from another commenter earlier today and can’t find the thread, so hat tip to whoever it was.
stick with church
hotdog you’re wasting your time.
read his comments for more info.
Just my hypothesis, but Perry would probably top both Palin and Bachmann in any poll amongst the right-wingers because he is a MALE. Christianist fanatics (like their Zionist and Islamist counterparts) are really fixated on the “supremacy” of the masculine gender. Thinking doesn’t count for much, it’s all about body parts.
with implants and a beard.
Sorry for all my asshole comments but I cannot take any of this as having any meaning of substance or enrichment. And that it is endemic top to bottom obama to boehner and the blind.
Yep. He is wasting his time. I will never support Perry’s dominionist world view nor his biblical view of women. Support Perry if you want.
back at ‘ch Maddy
When my daughter was three years old, she somehow found an empty can of tomato sauce with the top cut around but still attached by a really small piece of the lid. I noticed when she screamed because she had stuck her finger into the can and couldn’t pull it out without it cutting into her finger even more. I very clearly told her not to panick and to “STOP PULLING.” I then showed her how to push back the opposite way, hold the lid aside, and then pull her finger out. She listened and got away without a cut.
If my 3 year old could do that, I figure I can still hold out hope for some Obots.
Is it possible that Perry recognises no parameters and is actually pushing for anarchy? Appears to possibly be on par with scary mania or anarchy.
You are a nobama person and I am anti-Perry. We probably won’t ever agree. Never have found common ground with those that think Perry is acceptable.
Wrong. I agree that Perry is a nightmare. I only disagree that voting again for more of the same dicking you’ve been getting from Obomba is no solution. You’re arguing that running away from the boogey man into the arms of a sheister is a safer bet. It’s not. They both work for the same people, they just wear different costumes.
No alternative this time…. have to wait until 2016. Perry is too bad to ignore. Obama has been a disappointment but I have never been a huge fan. Perry and his preachers are just too scary.
There never will be an alternative if people do not send a loud and clear message to the democratic party. It’s going to take an earthquake to shake things up.
The tea party victory was an earthquake. It made things much worse for most people.
And the democratic party and the democratic president gave the neocons everything they wanted. WTF?
If a minority of republicans can drive the bus, what the hell good is ANY majority of democratic sell-outs?
They are all one and the same, and the “tea-party” is a trumped up media-made concoction to influence your vote in EXACTLY the way you plan to give it to the PTB who want it.
Obama surrendered from the beginning. The Tea Party is not made up. You must live some nice liberal place where they are few and far between. I am not so fortunate and have had unpleasant encounters with them.
That works for cans of tuna too. But American politics????????
I fear our country is FUBAR. Way too many people AND politicians with the heads up their ass and not nearly enough proctologists to go around.
OK.
I wish you no harm or foul.
Well what can I say to that except, well said.
Peace.
Why do you want the republicans to have control of the presidency, the house, the senate and the courts? That’s your earthquake.
Yeah FUBAR is the right term. Don’t know why I still hold out hope. Guess even Obummer couldn’t stamp it completely out of me. GTG. Sorry to bail.
Carleton, I’m pretty sure the teabaggers were genned up by the Koch bros.
I think they already do man. That’s the point. Now I really have to go.
A big strength of Perry’s is that he is the second choice for nearly everyone who supports one of his serious opponents. When the field clears out, all those supporters will switch to him more readily than they’ll switch to Romney.
Agree
I’m wondering if it would actually be better to have 4 years of Perry than 4 years of Romney. Sure, the threat of Perry launching nukes at some country or advocating that the Grand Canyon be damned is 80% higher than with Romney, but the benefit of a Perry presidency is that the brain-dead independents who decide elections in the US might actually sit up and figure out what’s going on in the country politically.
Just wanted to give a quick “what’s up” to all of you firedoglaker’s as I am a regular at Pam’s House Blend.
And I will be commenting here on a regular basis.
Probably better to have Perry if your goal is destruction of human rights. He signed the anti-gay pledge and the anti-woman pledge.
Perry would give the black caucus a backbone to resist GOP ideas – something they don’t have when Obama proposes cutting Social Security via the super committee. Indeed opposing GOP ideas will no longer be racist.
Hard to see the downside of replacing Obama with Perry – indeed we would not go as far in tearing down the safety net because of the filibuster in the Senate.
New legislation in the future under Obama will be bi-partisan – meaning approved by the GOP. What exactly do we lode if we lose Obama?
Never met so many people that don’t mind Perry. All my progressive friends in Texas say they are moving out of the country if he becomes president.
Sounds great. Just get your picture ID ready and go vote for the governor of the state that has the highest number of uninsured people. Pay as you go.
While Perry is obviously worse than Obama, what is more obvious than ever is the need for systemic change in the way we elect folks.
The elites win either way, we lose either way; all we can do is vote for the rate of our demise.
Still waiting for an authentic Progressive movement.
That’s a tough one. If the goal is the destruction of human rights, then you really can’t count out Barack Obama for going the extra mile to eradicate what’s left of American civil liberties. I don’t think Perry could be worse than Obama. At least Perry won’t sit there and insult you with a panzy ass excuse of “I’m evolving”; Perry will just tell you to go to hell and that’s actually refreshing.
Ann, the lesser evilism has been debunked repeatedly here at FDL.
Honest.
Vote for someone OTHER than a DIM or GOP’r . . . the rest don’t matter, they all serve the same overlords.
Lesser evilism plays into the hands of the manipulators.
Their fear tactic has you in its grip . . . resist. It WILL get worse regardless of who is elected . . . this you must face in order to dare to vote other than DIM or GOP’r . . . it’s gonna get worse no matter WHO wins.
The road back to a just and civil society is gonna out live most of us . . . a generational struggle if not more. Dig in, dare to resist.
You tell me how the first few years of Obama are different for the masses as opposed to Bush or what Perry might do, and point to some facts and details before you spout that crap.
Killin me with the lesser evilism jive . . . you new here?
I think I’m gonna throw up in my mouf a little . . .
Think some of you should live in Texas for awhile and experience the real Rick Perry. Seems to be more than a bit of naivete about him around here. If you can’t visit you should at least acquaint yourself with some of the virulently anti-gay preachers that he associates with.
Howdy!
Sure hope you got tolerance for Obamabots . . . for some reason they done come out in droves on this thread.
Ah well, I just upgraded . . , try this if it gets to ya.
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Just:
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Nuttin much.
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Less yer a party apparatchik . . .
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Howdy, comrade!
lol
Got any of that Dr. Feelgood yer peddling?
I’ve seen better spin . . You Make Me Dizzy, Miss Lizzy.
Most major cities in Texas are heavily Democratic. I know a lot of Democrats in Texas and they’re not in concentration camps. Goodhair is just another run-of-the-mill corrupt opportunist who is full of shit. He’s all talk.
lol..you all are so funny thinking there is a difference between obama and perry.
keep dreaming and wondering why thehell nothing gets any better.
tell your kids you voted for obama and tell them why he just couldnt do much because those republicans stopped him at every turn.
bad enough i have to live in a country full of nut case religious loons…but to be held prisoner by the likes of “obama is better then the republicans” voter is just to much.
wise up!!!
do it for your kids!~!
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