Texas Governor Rick Perry is riding high heading into next week’s GOP presidential debate, topping President Obama in a new poll.
Perry, the longest-serving governor in the history of the Lone Star State, edged Obama, 44% to 41%, in a national Rasmussen poll – a sign voters dig his pro-jobs message, McClatchy Newspapers reported Friday.
No other GOP White House hopeful topped the president in the poll, which surveyed 1,000 likely voters from Aug. 23 through Aug. 30. The margin of error was 3%.
Obama still holds a hypothetical edge over the rest of the GOP field, boasting a four-percentage-point lead over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the Rasmussen poll. Earlier in the year, Romney held a 1-percentage-point lead over Obama in a poll.
The Rasmussen triumph capped a week of positive poll results for Perry, who appears to have snatched the GOP front-runner tag away from Romney.
On Monday, a CNN/ORC International poll of GOP and independent voters who tend to favor Republican positions had 27% of voters nationwide supporting Perry, with only 14% backing Romney, The Texas Observer reported Friday in a story titled: “Can Perry Be Stopped?”
On Tuesday, a poll by Public Policy Polling showed Perry 20 points ahead of Romney among likely GOP voters in South Carolina.
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In a few months such polls mightr start showing a correlation with actual results. About all that is shows is that Obama might not be reelected, or then again, he might.
However such polls are fun, and certainly are more fun than anything produced by the statistics about the economy.
I prefer Santorum.
If you voted for Obama in 2008 in order to prove to yourself you weren’t racist, you need to vote AGAINST him in 2012 to prove you aren’t stupid!!
I voted for McCain in 2008. My opinion of Obama has definitely not improved, but none of the Republicans who are in the race today inspire me to vote for them. Perry scares me almost as much as Bachmann.
Mark Levin you have said it right
They are probably all nice people. You don’t get very far in politics if you are a misanthrope.
If you ignore all the things the Democrats, and the leftist media say, the Republicans are all actually very unradical. Arguing over the 10th amendment or calling Social Security a “ponzi” scheme isn’t really radical. Being pro-life and pro-children and disapproving of “sexual freedom” are hardly shocking in our community. Indeed, the differences between the Republican candidates is more of resume and background than ideological substance. They all agree the US has to stop emulating Weimar Germany, and had to do it immediately – the other issues are irrelvant. The differences between Paul and Huntsman (the extremes, Perry is in the middle) are substantally less than the differences with any Democrat likely to be running in 2012 (Obama, or if he quits, Clinton or Biden).
And the personal attacks on Obama are ridiculous. He appears to be a nice guy with a very proper family (a bit hen pecked, nice kids, very conventional nuclear family – definitely married a “Tiger” mother type). His policies are absurd, but that represents dumbness and ideologically induced blindness, not evil or malice.