Another amazing Perry poll (CNN/ORC International)
Perry 27%
Romney 14%
Palin 10%
Bachmann 9%
…and so on
Perry has doubled up Romney in this poll. The more extreme his rhetoric gets, the more extreme his poll numbers get.
Conditions of the poll:
Interviews with 1,017 adult Americans conducted by telephone by ORC International on August 24-25, 2011. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points. The sample also includes 927 interviews among registered voters (plus or minus 3 percentage points).
The sample includes 805 interviews among landline respondents and 212 interviews among cell phone respondents.
Tagged: poll, republican presidential primary, rick perry
Kenneth D. Franks says:
Three September debates will have an effect on these numbers. In October we will know pretty much who the real frontrunners are.
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The House is Not a Home says:
Paul, I think at the end of the day, Perry’s rhetoric, extreme or not (I don’t think it is that extreme), won’t hurt him. Obama is a bumbling fool who has proven himself unfit for office.
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Blue Dogs Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Perry’s got a record of controversy in his 11 years as Texas governor, including things he doesn’t want coming out.
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Texian Politico says:
I’m just waiting for Perry’s illegal alien uncle to get busted for DWI and tell the cops he’s going to call the governor’s office.
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The House is Not a Home Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 9:15 am
Texian, don’t you know, its just a myth that illegal aliens commit crimes.
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anon Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 9:23 am
I’d like to see the video — “Hey, vato, why don’t you just let me and my borracho friends get on down the camino, eeeehooolllleee!”
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Blue Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 9:51 am
I can’t wait to see if he voted…Motor Voter would have allowed him to do so with his dirver’s license.
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South Texan says:
Sad. Very sad.
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anita says:
It shows a very volitle electorate on the R side. What goes up can easily go down. Especially for a candidate that many are being introduced to now for the first time. I personally think this is a curse for Perry — this is a marathon, not a sprint, and he would be better positioned if he were to show a slow and steady building of momuntum and support, as opposed to huge numbers out of the gate. He’ll peak too soon.
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Texian Politico Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Peak too soon? Again, you wish Anita. This isn’t a marathon. The first votes in Iowa are only about 23 weeks away. That is not long from now at all.
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Blue Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 9:52 am
“Slow and steady building of support” leaves you in Pawlenty land. That’s not how nominations are captured in the real world. (See Obama, Barack, 2008.)
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Bodhisattva Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Actually, I DID see Barack Obama 2008. Did you, Blue? His battle to win the nomination was exactly the kind of long, disciplined slog that Anitaappropriately called a marathon. He announced his candidacy 11 months before the Iowa caucuses. The nomination battle with Hillary Clinton lasted until April/May of 2008. What about the concept of “marathon” don’t you understand?
anon Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 11:03 am
So we are 2 weeks in to a 23 week process, and you think he can sustain this trajectory?
You’re dreaming . . .
Let’s revisit this in a month.
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Blue Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08dem.htm
Barack Obama preference for nomination, July 2007:
25 percent
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 11:22 am
@anita
“The president’s 67-year-old uncle, Obama Onyango, has had a valid Massachusetts driver’s license and Social Security number since at least 1992, said Registry of Motor Vehicles spokesman Michael Verseckes.”
of course we know “illegals” do not vote….
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Anon100 Reply:
September 1st, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Is it Romney’s fault? Did he get ORomney care too?
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Blue Dogs Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Anita, KBH peaked way too soon in 2008-2009 when she had double-digit leads of 20 to 25 points over Perry in the GOP primary for governor back in ’10, then Perry ran negative ads and we all know how that story went.
Senator Hutchison is kicking herself that she didn’t make the jump back in 2006-because Perry would be on his ranch in Paint Creek by now.
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retrocon says:
The sad thing is that too many people are ready to pledge their political allegiance to someone with a shoot-from-the-hip style, somehow interpreting this as “straight talk”. It’s all a rhetorical game that Perry knows how to play.
We saw this when Donald Trump was out their grabbing the microphone, and unbelievably there were suddenly Republicans fawning over him as a Presidential candidate.
This glib political rhetoric doesn’t indicate a good executive nor a good president, only one who’s willing to play on people’s tendencies for political ends.
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AreYouKiddingMe says:
Perry is getting poll numbers on rhetoric and for firing up the right wing nuts. They are polling Republicans, who obviously are looking for someone to shake things up. Perry has a lot more charisma than Mitt. Those of us who know him, see right through him and know that everything he does is pure politics. But, early in an election, those things get noticed. Do a national poll, or better yet, a state by state poll and see where he is. I have a hard time believing the Republicans would actually have this guy as their nominee for President. After all of the things he has said and done, is he really the person Repubs want as the face of their party?? If so, all I can say is WOW…
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The House is Not a Home says:
This glib political rhetoric doesn’t indicate a good executive nor a good president, only one who’s willing to play on people’s tendencies for political ends.
This is exactly how President Obama was elected. He wasn’t vetted, and Americans did not take a long, hard look at what he actually believes. People voted for him because they were sold on the free, abstract commodity of “hope and change.” And look how well that has worked.
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Blue Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 9:53 am
That’s also because the media let Obama slide. That won’t happen with Perry.
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Jed Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 11:00 am
you two need a room.
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Anonymous Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Oh yeah funny how you can forget about cable networks obsession with Jeremiah wright, ayers, birthed issue, “clinging to guns,” I can go on. I think Obama was pretty well vetted.
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Blue Reply:
August 31st, 2011 at 12:01 am
Nonsense, the media shushed every one of those stories up ASAP. Take Wright, for example–the media NEVER examined how close the ties between him and Obama were.
anon Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 11:01 am
It’s also because Bush was a political disaster, and McCain/Palin couldn’t shake themselves of the Bush taint.
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Fatima says:
I find Perry’s trashing of social security interesting when it comes to the swing state of Florida. Is the Perry team just writing Florida off? Even if one isn’t old enough in that state to collect SSI yet, the economic benefits the FL merchants see from all those many seniors having income affects their local economies big time.
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Red Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Now now, Social Security is government spending, and government spending never helps local economies–it just strangles God-fearing, patriotic job creators in the private market. You’re forgetting your GOP orthodoxy.
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Fatima Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
You should hear Florida’s local and county goverments howl against proposed cuts to social security checks.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Classic liberal thought process being used here.
I lie so everyone must lie.
I cheat so everyone must cheat.
How do I know this? Because all my liberal friends tell me that’s how it is.
Lesson for democrats stop listening to the liberal left. Stop comparing Guv Perry to liberal candidates. Stop, back up and LEARN, get informed about Guv Perry then make up your own mind. Stop acting like “useful idiots”.
I know, you’ve proudly earned the title, but do you want to wear it forever?
I mean how badly does it feel to be fooled by a campaign slogan like “hope and change”?
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Nick Manning Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
hahaha now youre just copy and pasting your posts. not too much longer before you just run out of talking points material.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
do you have a comment about the substance or is this the usual “republics are so dumb liberal groupthink?”
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Nick Manning Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
youre acting like theres any substance to what youre saying at all.
Crazy Uncle says:
You cannot dispute the fact that Obama is further to the left of center than Perry is to the right of center.
glad to see more balance to the posts
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Red Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Depends on where you define the center. A Democratic president calling for cuts to Medicare & for more tax cuts doesn’t seem very left of center to me.
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Blue Dogs says:
Obama will also benefit from turnout among African Americans, Latinos, Asians, 18-29 year olds, a liberal base who will hold their noses and vote for him and some moderates.
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Blue Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Black turnout will be way down, the new kids won’t turn out at half the rate they did in 2008 while the old kids will be wondering about how they got suckered into “Change.” There’s no way turnout for Obama in 2012 even approaches what he got in his first election.
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Bill says:
I’m starting to understand how Hitler rose to power.
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