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GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% (Rasmussen)
« on: August 16, 2011, 12:51:10 PM »
On only his third day as an official  candidate:

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

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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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Re: GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% (Rasmussen)
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2011, 01:11:29 PM »
Where's the link?  I can't seem to find it in the OP . . .
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Re: GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% (Rasmussen)
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2011, 01:13:46 PM »
Where's the link?  I can't seem to find it in the OP . . .

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Re: GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% (Rasmussen)
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2011, 12:51:58 PM »
This is too early to have any real meaning.These early polls are more like a measure of the amount of TV exposure a candidate has gotten than any real measure of a lead.
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Re: GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% (Rasmussen)
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2011, 01:08:21 PM »
This is too early to have any real meaning.These early polls are more like a measure of the amount of TV exposure a candidate has gotten than any real measure of a lead.

Okay, bright boy--exactly how much exposure has Perry received compared to the rest of the candidates?

And here's another tidbit for you to gnaw on for a while--Obumbler is in the news, above the fold, on a daily basis.  So by your logic, his approval should be in the high eleventys.
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