Perry the GOP frontrunner in Ga., and nationally as well
Via Jim Galloway, a poll of Georgia Republicans by Channel Two Action News and InsiderAdvantage:
Rick Perry: 24 percent;
Herman Cain: 15 percent;
Newt Gingrich: 9 percent;
Michele Bachmann: 8 percent;
Mitt Romney: 6 percent;
Ron Paul: 5 percent;
Jon Huntsman: 1 percent;
Undecided, 20 percent.
It’s no surprise that Perry’s doing well in Georgia, but the size of his lead is a little startling so soon after his entry into the race. The fact that Romney, the longtime frontrunner who has been in the race for months, draws just 6 percent here in the Peach State is a stark reminder of his problems with the party’s conservative base.
In a similar poll taken in Florida earlier this month, before Perry’s official entry, Romney pulled 25 percent, with Perry drawing support from 16 percent and Bachmann getting 10 percent. I doubt those numbers would be duplicated today, with Perry now an official candidate.
The most recent numbers out of South Carolina, another important primary state, date back to mid-July, when Perry was just beginning to make noises about a serious run. Romney drew 25 percent, with Sarah Palin at 16 percent, Bachmann at 15 percent and Cain at 13 percent. But again, Perry’s entry into the race has no doubt altered that landscape.
That’s certainly what has happened nationally. Here’s Rasmussen from earlier this week:
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.
At this point, Perry is probably the frontrunner in the race, with the important proviso that like Bachmann, he has the potential to self-destruct at any moment.
– Jay Bookman
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Tommy Maddox
August 20th, 2011
11:50 am
Broken record: default; treason; resign; w; cons…
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
11:51 am
The gop It’s not default it’s De(r)fault
Tommy Maddox
August 20th, 2011
11:51 am
TaxPayer – and you think that Clinton likes Obama [except if he's serving coffee]?
Dusty
August 20th, 2011
11:51 am
getalife,
I’m afraid you have lost all credibiity here. Your rants no longer require any attention whatsoever.
Same for AmVet. Repetitious slamming loses its effect. Too bad. (Sorry about your car but not your attitude.)
Dusty
August 20th, 2011
11:53 am
Taxpayer,
I should have included you in the undesirables. No need to attach any importance to foolish statements such as yours.
TaxPayer
August 20th, 2011
11:54 am
TaxPayer – and you think that Clinton likes Obama [except if he's serving coffee]?
And of course you meant nothing racist by that, did you, Tommy Two-Tone.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
11:54 am
No Dusty,
You lost credibility wanting to default and destroy the United States of America.
Traitors like perry said.
Tommy Maddox
August 20th, 2011
11:55 am
I was just quoting Mr. Clinton – ask him.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
11:55 am
Tommy,
Are you a con that wants to default?
Man up son.
Admit it..
Manchurian-Kenyan Candidate
August 20th, 2011
11:55 am
Stevie Ray…..Obama’s “Yes We Can” now is “Not our Fault”
I love it!!!!
Tommy Maddox
August 20th, 2011
11:56 am
If it will stop useless deficit spending and runaway debt – you bet.
TaxPayer
August 20th, 2011
11:57 am
Rick Perry, in his infinite wisdom, decided that this was a good moment to suggest that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was somehow deserving of sustained corporal harm. A third round of quantitative easing, to Perry’s mind, would be “treacherous” and “treasonous,” and he darkly mused, “I don’t know what you all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas.” The media paused, momentarily weirded out, but soon were back at it, gushing in amusement over Perry’s “colorful tongue.”
But what happened next was interesting. Amid all of the condemnation of Perry’s Bernanke comment, one set of voices rang out the loudest — the voices of the old Dubya Camp, who hate Perry like feline leukemia. Tony Fratto and Nicolle Wallace were quick out of the gate. Alex Castellanos piled on. But it was Karl Rove — warning of right-wing extremism as if the concept of irony had never been invented — who finally got the worm to turn. By mid-week, the media was over Perry, and amplifying the renewed voice of all those in the GOP bandstand who want someone — anyone! Paul Ryan! Chris Christie! Nyan Cat! — to get into the 2012 race and rescue it from oblivion.
Such foolish statements from such undesireables, eh Dusty.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
11:58 am
Thank you for admitting it tommy.
Your turn dusty.
TaxPayer
August 20th, 2011
11:58 am
I was just quoting Mr. Clinton – ask him.
It must have been the lack of quotation marks that threw me.
Tommy Maddox
August 20th, 2011
11:58 am
No problem.
Manchurian-Kenyan Candidate
August 20th, 2011
11:59 am
ScAmVet….”rattle my cage”?……another liberal delusion……don’t flatter yourself….to me you’re either Moe, Larry, or Curly….except not nearly as funny
getalife
August 20th, 2011
11:59 am
tommy,
Do you know defaulting would cause another depression?
Manchurian-Kenyan Candidate
August 20th, 2011
12:01 pm
ScAmVet……I got it!…..you’re Shemp…..he never was funny
Dusty
August 20th, 2011
12:01 pm
Crackpots are not worthy of replies.
Brosephus
August 20th, 2011
12:02 pm
Who actually cares about these polls right now. It’s August for crying out loud. Tell me about this stuff in January.
Tommy Maddox
August 20th, 2011
12:03 pm
Nope. But it might slap some sense into the fools that pull the strings in DC.
Aquagirl
August 20th, 2011
12:03 pm
Oh, belated condolences to you AmVet if your car is beyond help. Glad you’re ok.
TaxPayer
August 20th, 2011
12:04 pm
I can see why Huntman does not stand a chance with Georgia’s GOP constituency. He actually believes in evolution and even prefers to trust the climate scientists on global warming instead of the GOP mouthpieces — the mouthpieces that just say no because it’s all they’ve got.
TaxPayer
August 20th, 2011
12:05 pm
Dusty called Rove a crackpot!
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
12:05 pm
The polls only count for those who need money to stay in the race.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:05 pm
tommy,
Self inflicted default is treason son.
You are a traitor, pure and simple.
Tommy Maddox
August 20th, 2011
12:06 pm
I’ve been called worse by better, Grebler.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:07 pm
I would not buy rove’s lies.
He is still advising perry.
It is w part II to finish off our country.
Intentionally trying to destroy your country is treason.
Period.
AmVet
August 20th, 2011
12:09 pm
Well thanks, Dusty! But not for your unprovoked personal insults. (grin)
Speaking of which, the juvenile mystery meat is gonna implode soon enough and that should be another enjoyable spectacle.
Tick, tick, tick…
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:13 pm
Listen to Huntsman on self inflicting default cons.
He knows it is treason and he is the only gop candidate that will never commit treason.
But don’t run him because he would probably win.
Normal
August 20th, 2011
12:14 pm
It may be just me, but I like AmVet and getalife…good people, those…
TaxPayer
August 20th, 2011
12:15 pm
How could you not love this guy. I mean, just compare his mannerisms with those of the loveable George Bush. What’s not to love.
Manchurian-Kenyan Candidate
August 20th, 2011
12:15 pm
(wink!)…..enjoyed it ScAmVet……gotta go enjoy the beautiful day…….don’t say too many bad things while I’m away……I’ll get back on the blog the next time I’m really bored!
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
12:16 pm
But Normal. We know you aren’t (normal that is)
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:18 pm
Thank you Normal.
I think you and AmVet are good people too
Made my day.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 20th, 2011
12:18 pm
Well I know I’m voting for Perry now. I saw the grades he made in colledge. D’s and C’s. He’s just like me. I never done too good in school neither. That danged multiplying table made my senior year the 5th grade.
Anyhow, it looks like he’s as close to Southren Baptist as we’re going to get. I seen where he was praying with all the people in that big meeting in Texas. We need preachers back in guvmint. And beginning all the meetings with prayer and Bible study.
And it don’t look like Perry’s too fond of Those People either. For every White crook they put the needle to in Texas they execute five of Those People and the Mexicans. We need somebody in the White House that will turn the cash spigot off for Those People and the rest of them too.
Now if he’ll just pick Bachmann as his VP we’ll be all set. The two of them can pray the Gays straight and that’ll be one problem out of the way.
Have a good Saturday everybody.
Paulo977
August 20th, 2011
12:20 pm
Dusty
Perry a leader???
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/19/rick-perry-candidate-unpresidential
md
August 20th, 2011
12:20 pm
Not impressed with any of them……..and that includes the current guy in office………I’m guessing it won’t matter much…….the incumbent will bear the brunt of an economy in slow motion………….
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
12:21 pm
As usual, the media (Jay) pumps up the flavor of the month like a new hottie who just moved in down the street.
After the first month, what looks hot tends to blend into the background again, and things even out.
Thus will Rick Perry.
We’ll see if his ground game is equal to his new kid on the block status.
AmVet
August 20th, 2011
12:21 pm
Seeya later Grand Forks, et al…
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
12:22 pm
“It may be just me”
It likely is.
md
August 20th, 2011
12:22 pm
How’s the head today Am? Post anything you shouldn’t have?
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
12:23 pm
H’mmm with the lightweight competition maybe Jeb Bush will jump into the race and make it REALLY interesting
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:23 pm
md,
Yes, the gop strategy to stop the recovery for the election worked.
It started the day after their collapse.
This gives you a moral choice.
Do the gop deserve to win using this strategy so they can default on the debt?
Or do we use some patience and give our President more than two years to clean up their mess that probably lost us a decade of growth?
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
August 20th, 2011
12:24 pm
Of course Obama has already self destructed.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
12:25 pm
Jeb Bush will NOT get into the 2012 race.
2016? If Hope & Downgrade ™ gets another term, Bush will consider running then.
AmVet
August 20th, 2011
12:27 pm
md, it’s a little sore, but not bad. I just can’t consume the demon alkeehall like I could when I was young.
Thank gawd.
And no, I was my usual charming self. (grin)
Thanks for asking…
md
August 20th, 2011
12:30 pm
“Do the gop deserve to win using this strategy so they can default on the debt?”
Did I miss the default? When did it occur?
Otherwise, it was just talk……..as are most 11th hour standoffs………….I was in a union for 20+ years, I’ve seen the game played enough to understand most of it is bluster……………and for the record, I lean more toward those that want to see spending head the other way…….a 1.5 trillion addition (O’s proposed budget) is heading in the wrong direction…………….
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:30 pm
AmVet,
Will your insurance replace it with a better car?
If so, you might be able to get a newer model of your car with less miles.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:32 pm
md,
I guess you missed the debate.
One candidate said he would never default.
The rest said they would.
If you are going to engage in politics, please try to keep up.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
12:38 pm
“If you are going to engage in politics, please try to keep up.”
Pot – meet kettle.
Your ability to understand politics is right up there with your ability to understand nuclear fusion.
Mick
August 20th, 2011
12:38 pm
Jeb bush? I think that name is permanently soiled with the public, no threepeats in presidential politics…
Normal
August 20th, 2011
12:39 pm
Got called…looks like I’ll be workin’ the weekend…see y’all later
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:40 pm
dave is not good people.
We all know that
md
August 20th, 2011
12:41 pm
“One candidate said he would never default.
The rest said they would.”
“Said” being the operative word…………………..
Talk is just that…………talk. More often than not, it means nothing…….especially in negotiations. Both sides have to have some fluff built in, or they have no room to move…………….
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:45 pm
md,
They lied?
Wake up.
The cons want to self inflict a default.
It is a fact.
Bruno
August 20th, 2011
12:45 pm
Wait a minute, the Q45 is an Infiniti.
+ 1 points for buying a Toyota product, Am.
-20 points for still being a corporatist snob.
-200 points for giving HD a bunch of crap last night.
Well, off to the second clinic. At least I have tomorrow off, my first Sunday off in over a month.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
12:48 pm
When did compromise become a bad word? In politics compromise is necessary to avoid gridlock.
Many on the right and left are staking out positions that are indefensible in todays economy.
They seem to have taken illegal immigration, unlimited visas, trade tariffs, increased taxes, benefit cuts, defense and a whole slew of other things out of the talks.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:51 pm
“Q45 is an Infiniti.”
People love that car.
Mr Right
August 20th, 2011
12:53 pm
He actually believes in evolution
Who would? Normal scientist look at evidence and come to a conclusion but on evolution they come to a conclusion and then look for the evidence. With new discoveries old scientific
proof is proven wrong so why should we believe them now?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 20th, 2011
12:56 pm
Well, we just got to win next year. If we lose, the worst thing in the world is going to happen. I can take the Socialism and all that stuff. But you know what’s going to happen the day after the election. We’ll be getting that post from No. 1 FOXY LADY telling us to . . . well, you know.
I just can’t take that.
Mick
August 20th, 2011
12:56 pm
getalife
I’ve got to give you credit, you just keep on punching-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNqZjlS-kK8
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:58 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common ,
It is very obvious congress needs replaced.
No compromise is a radical position that leads to civil war.
I think we need a choice to dissolve congress when their approval rating hit the teens.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
12:59 pm
Thanks Mick.
I am a fighter that uses Medicare so this cycle is personal.
Paulo977
August 20th, 2011
1:06 pm
Am Vet
re:car
Sorry…anyway as fall approaches this ought to revive you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBmSppk9n9c&feature=related
Mr Right
August 20th, 2011
1:09 pm
You have got to love Al Sharpton! http://www.breitbart.tv/our-special-tribute-to-nbc-news-and-al-sharpton/
md
August 20th, 2011
1:14 pm
More like shadow boxing…………..
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
1:16 pm
Here’s an idea. Have a box on the tax filings allowing individuals to contribute an amount DIRECTLY to the payment of the debt. I would elect to do that, but many folks talk as if paying on the debt needs to come from someone else’s money.
Ayn Rant
August 20th, 2011
1:22 pm
Perry is flakier than the other Republican candidates, but his “aw shucks” ignorance and arrogance might just resonate with gullible voters seeking bumper sticker solutions to serious problems.
I’ve a great idea for sensible voters in the election season that has already begun: register as Republicans and vote Bachman in the primaries. That way we’ll have some comic relief until election day, when we can return Obama to office with a filibuster-proof Congress.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
1:27 pm
md,
Bring it.
out of the blue
August 20th, 2011
1:27 pm
“might just resonate with gullible voters seeking bumper sticker solutions to serious problems.”
Now why does the name Dusty pop into my mind?
jconservative
August 20th, 2011
1:27 pm
Can Perry carry New Jersey,Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana & Colorado in a general election? We know he will get at least 180 electoral votes, McCain received 173 in 2008. But McCain only received 28 electoral votes from states he carried by 60% of the popular vote. On the other hand, Obama received 146 electoral votes from states he carried by 60% of the vote on his way to a total electoral college vote of 365.
All Obama needs to do is get 124 electoral votes to add to that base of 146, and he has the magic number of 270.
The Republicans really need to nominate a person who can carry a few states outside their base.
Say the 15 electoral votes from New Jersey.
And maybe there are enough “Obama No” votes to win with anyone. Maybe. Do the Republicans really want to take that big a chance?
Is 4 more years with Obama better than nominating someone who is not an ideological “true believer”?
Important question.
md
August 20th, 2011
1:28 pm
“Here’s an idea. Have a box on the tax filings allowing individuals to contribute an amount DIRECTLY to the payment of the debt
Here you go……..just fill out the form……and I hope all you others calling for folks to pay more do the same:
https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454
getalife
August 20th, 2011
1:30 pm
There are plenty of good ideas to create jobs.
There is no political will from the gop to vote yes on creating jobs.
Creating jobs helps our President getting reelected.
And the gop said no to that fact.
Failed party over country and the American people.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
1:31 pm
md – you forgot to include your account number on the form.
md
August 20th, 2011
1:33 pm
Common,
I’m a believer in equal opportunity……..when all the tax cuts expire………..otherwise, folks can just hush.
I’m not too big on making some pay more while others choose to pay less………………….and those “others” know who they are.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
1:47 pm
Geesh. The US wants to build a tunnel from the US to Russia. That’s ok? But when the mexicans try it we raise hell
getalife
August 20th, 2011
2:01 pm
Personal attacks will get you banned con.
AmVet has a job and I am retired.
Wrong as usual.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
2:03 pm
I tried to warn you.
Jay
August 20th, 2011
2:06 pm
The eye never blinks….
Willie
August 20th, 2011
2:06 pm
Jay thinks that Perry will self destruct because the fax from the DNC headquaters told him to keep painting everyone in the GOP as crazy.
Jay just writes what he is told.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
2:15 pm
Jay – Now that CT is retired you will become number one in the hearts of the right
St Simons - we're on Island time
August 20th, 2011
2:15 pm
I for one think its pretty shrewd bait n switch marketing
by the Cons. Push the clown car ticket, then switch
to & nominate Romney at the last minute. Only in that
contrasting light will the Mormon guy look reasonable
by comparison, to their fundie base. They’ll leave walmart
en masse and board the church buses to the polls.
Well played, cons, from a democratic socialist
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
2:18 pm
The far right can write in Qaddafi (he needs a job) but he is probably too sane and liberal for them
out of the blue
August 20th, 2011
2:22 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common
“Now that CT is retired you will become number one in the hearts of the right.”
Common sense you ought to know the right does not have hearts!
josef
August 20th, 2011
2:24 pm
Jay
August 20th, 2011
2:06 pm
“The eye never blinks…”.
Oh, no! The Grand Cyclops is here…
poison pen
August 20th, 2011
2:36 pm
AP
Georgia vet among those in limbo
Sgt. Nicholas Lanier, injured in Iraq, is among thousands of disabled veterans left hanging as they wait for discharge papers
Must be Bush’s fault.
poison pen
August 20th, 2011
2:37 pm
out of the blue
Nope! Just brains.
TaxPayer
August 20th, 2011
2:37 pm
Cataracts are more common in the eye that never sleeps.
Mick
August 20th, 2011
2:41 pm
jay
Be careful, mighty righty will think you are undercover for cbs
poison pen
August 20th, 2011
2:42 pm
Normal
” Got called…looks like I’ll be workin’ the weekend…see y’all later”
Normal. Why let that bother you, there are 5 or 6 regulars on here and they post all day while at…Ahem, work.
Michael
August 20th, 2011
3:02 pm
Being the head of an OPEC state is a problem for Perry. We’ve already tried one former head of an OPEC state, and he cost us about $15 trillion in lost value in the stock market and housing values.
Also, the Georgia republicans have a decided tea party slant. Almost 50% of the votes were for Perry, Bachman, and Cain. Nationally the Tea party popularity has dropped below atheists – although they still have a lead over dog spit. I don’t think that will be the base for a successful campaign.
Since their number one goal is to defeat Obama, he might as well run against them. It worked pretty well for Harry Truman, and Obama is in a similar position.
SOUTHERN ATL
August 20th, 2011
3:11 pm
Mary Elizabeth@9:50….My daughter and I saw the movie “The Help” last weekend! I give it a two thumbs up also!! Well said!!
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
3:20 pm
josef – ‘the eye never blinks’
that’s what everyone said the last time I stayed up all night drinking bourbon.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
3:24 pm
The far right does have a heart, it’s just weak and can’t pump enough necessary fluid to their brains so that they can function.
Just as the far left are all heart and pump too much fluid so they are somewhat full of it
Midori
August 20th, 2011
3:27 pm
jay
Be careful, mighty righty will think you are undercover for cbs
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
3:36 pm
“The playbook we’re following here in Ohio is simple: to grow more, you have to tax less, spend less and regulate less,” Kasich said. “If we can do it here in Ohio, Washington can — and should — do it also.”
msnbc
It’s wonderful to see quote’s like this considering the sweetheart deals Ohio has given Tata consulting(Indian owned) in the state of Ohio since Tata hires very few US citizens and prefers H1b visa holders.
josef
August 20th, 2011
3:37 pm
common sense
Yeah, I was a gin head last p.m. myself!
Doggone/GA
August 20th, 2011
3:38 pm
“but on evolution they come to a conclusion and then look for the evidence”
Don’t know much about Darwin, do you?
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
3:41 pm
Josef -
Gin is definitely the devils tonic, dangerous to all that consume. psst it’s really the tonic water that makes it dangerous LOL