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July 21, 2011 09:30 PM UTC

Rick Perry to the Rescue? Not So Much

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  • by: Colorado Pols

From our friends at “The Fix“:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the talk of the 2012 Republican presidential race at the moment but, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll, he fares no better in a head-to-head matchup with President Obama than several longer-shot candidates in the field.

Perry trails Obama 53 percent to 40 percent among registered voters in a hypothetical 2012 matchup – a margin roughly equivalent to the 55 percent-to-40 percent edge Obama enjoys over Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and the 52 percent to 42 percent advantage he holds over Texas Rep. Ron Paul.

Mitt Romney performs significantly better when matched with Obama; Obama takes 49 percent to 47 percent for the former Massachusetts governor.

The numbers suggest that, while Perry is clearly the flavor of the month among Republican insiders, he does not yet have the sort of national profile with GOP voters that would distinguish him from the other candidates seeking to be the Romney alternative in the 2012 field. A look inside the numbers affirm the sense that Perry – along with Bachmann and Paul – are performing as any generic Republican matched against Obama would.

So apparently Perry isn’t any more likely to beat President Obama than most of the rest of the GOP field. But perhaps Perry isn’t talking about running for President of the United States…maybe he’s planning a campaign for President of Texas?

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40 thoughts on “Rick Perry to the Rescue? Not So Much”

  1. his Christians only prayer event starring pastors who believe, among other things, that the Japanese stock market troubles started with the demon sun goddess sleeping with the emperor, that Oprah is a tool of the anti-Christ and that freedom of religion should only extend to the “right” religious groups and his belief that the only way to solve our present fiscal crisis is through prayer, that would make a lot more sense.  He certainly isn’t fond of anything the US is supposed to stand for. He’d make a great leader for the a nice little theocracy, governed by himself and his prayer circle, none of whom would have to pay taxes.

      1. video on the “Hick:  Obama faces uphill fight”  thread.  The one with the neon sign at the top. About secession, prayer as the answer to fiscal crisis you can easily google that and other fun stuff yourself.  It’s been all over cable and “lamestream media” for ages. It will only take a few seconds, dear.

          1. tough to top. And as far as only welcoming Christians…  Go to the event website. Right there on the front page it says it’s for all those who accept Jesus as savior. That’s not even nominally Judeo-Christian which always struck me as an oxymoron anyway, considering the New testament doesn’t exist in the Jewish religion. I mean if Christians want to claim some of our stuff, fine, but we don’t claim any of theirs.

          2. unless you’re a chuckleheaded moron.

            Slick Rick (once a TX DEM) is a extra-Right righteous panderer willing to sell his soul for the sake of a little face time & attention.  

            BlueCat’s assertions are painfully true but it’s evident either RWingers don’t have a fuckin’ clue as to what your wannabe standard bearers stand for or you’re thinking its all just pandering bullshit that no one should really pay any heed.

            Which is is AGop?  

               

            1. Perry is for real.  He’s really into this stuff.  This is who he is. We’re not talking slips of the tongue or stupid mistakes.  We’re talking the real Perry, one scary anti-American SOB.

    2. Leads Bachmann, leads Romney…in the latest ABC poll.  It’s early a lot can change, but contrast real candidates against the fake one without any issues (Gene Generic).  

      Good luck finding  that ever-so-popular generic candidate.  

      1. The Democrats at PPP say differently.

        http://www.washingtontimes.com…

        A Democratic polling firm said President Obama’s already weak job-approval numbers are “worse than they appear” and he likely would lose the election if it were held today.

        For the first time in a year, Mr. Obama does not lead former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Public Policy Polling’s monthly national poll on the 2012 presidential race. They are tied at 45 percent, and Mr. Obama is losing among independent voters by a margin of 49 percent to 44 percent.

        Worse for Mr. Obama, PPP said, the “vast majority” of undecideds disapprove of the president’s performance. The survey of registered voters was conducted July 15-17.

        “There’s a very good chance Barack Obama would lose if he had to stand for re-election today,” said Dean Debnam, president of PPP. “This is his worst poll standing in a long time, and he really needs the economy to start turning around.”

              3. don’t kick in until 2014, nor does the mandate, and in fact practically nothing kicked in the day it was signed into law, and assuming their data isn’t invented from whole cloth like their 5% growth projections that the Ryan plan assumes, I think our friends over at Heritage have committed a classic logical fallacy: post hoc ergo propter hoc. Just because something precedes another doesn’t mean there’s a causal relationship. Correlation does not imply causation.

                  1. There’s not a lot of incentive to invest to grow your earnings when there’s no inflation risk.  Just sit back and enjoy your comforts.  Same for low capital gains and inheritance taxes.  Banking tax cuts is a lot easier  than working and investing, and let’s face it, the ultra-wealty are fucking lazy and largely unproductive.

                    Or it could be demand craps out when the middle class is shrinking.

                    But, it’s probably Obamacare . . . sheesh!

            2. ” You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature. ”

              http://seanbonner.com/blog/arc…

            3. Answer: It can’t.  Correlation doesn’t mean causation and usually doesn’t when it appears in a heritage foundation report.

              1. the answer that I hear from a lot of people in the healthcare industry is that they are changing their policies and practices right now to “brace for the negative impacts of obamacare”.

                I suppose this is a possibility, but we’re really more of a nation of reactive policy (see: current debt ceiling debacle).

          1. Which declarativly states that the poll says Obama would lose, which it does not (being within the MOE) nor does the pollster reach that conclusion  “a good chance if held today” or something of that sort.  But, no matter, like ArapGOP the Moony Online Blog former-newspaper wants to believe what it wants to believe, and making a headline exaggerate or lie to appeal to the brainwashed cult members, or Unification Church members for that matter too, is not unexpected.  

            Obama is vulnerable…to a person, not to a fake GOP template upon which every tea partier, libertarian, Rockefeller Republican can project their dreams and wishes and ideals.  Luckily for Obama, the Goopers in the running still have plenty of work to do destroying each other for another year or so…

            Good luck running with comes out the other end of that process…

            1. http://publicpolicypolling.blo…

              Obama in perilous shape

              For the first time since last July Barack Obama does not lead Mitt Romney in PPP’s monthly national poll on the 2012 Presidential race. Romney has now pulled into a tie with the President at 45%.

              Obama’s approval rating this month is 46% with 48% of voters disapproving of him. There are 2 things particularly troubling in his numbers: independents split against him by a 44/49 margin, and 16% of Democrats are unhappy with the job he’s doing while only 10% of Republicans give him good marks. Republicans dislike him at this point to a greater extent than Democrats like him and that will be a problem for him moving forward if it persists.

              1. ….or else he would’ve NEVER been re-elected. Same with unemployment – there’s NO WAY a Pres could ever get elected if unemployment numbers are around 10% a year before the election.

                Do I need to post links AGAIN?

              1. how would the political agenda look different?

                Would the President still try to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits in order to cut taxes for the rich?

                Would the President ignore unemployment and focus on reducing the deficit at the worst possible time?

                Would the President give Congressional Republicans everything they wanted?

                I think all the results would still be the same, except there would be less drama over the negotiations.

        3. You people really have no concept of the meaning of debate, do you? The response is supposed to address the specific thing you’re responding to.  

        4. I’ve got the only poll that counts. And its from GOD.

          Describing Texas Gov. Rick Perry as grossly unqualified for the position, God, the Creator and Ruler of the Universe, urged Perry not to run for president of the United States Wednesday. “I prayed last night and asked the Lord to support my candidacy, and He said no,” Perry told reporters outside the Texas Capitol, explaining that God had cited the governor’s rejection of federal stimulus funds to expand state jobless benefits, his irresponsible speculation about Texas seceding from the union, and his overall lack of concrete solutions to nation’s problems as reasons why He could not endorse a Perry presidential bid.

          http://www.theonion.com/articl…

          1. Perry is being called to something but sometimes he just doesn’t listen.

            This pious pissant espousing Christian Right values from his gov’t pulpit sure doesn’t walk the talk.  Via that Biblical hooey a core function believing & believers is to take care of the poor, sick, and needy.

            Well, via ABC News:

            The Perry family’s income tax return shows Perry gave $90 to his church in 2007, a year in which he reported an income of more than $1 million, the San Antonio Express-News reported in Sunday’s edition. Tax records from 2000, when Perry became governor, through 2009 show he earned $2.68 million and gave $14,243 to churches and religious organizations, about a half percent, the newspaper reported.

            Perry reported no religious contributions in 2000 and 2009, according to his tax records.

            Americans averaged giving nearly 1.2 percent of their income to churches and religious groups in 2004-08, according to the Illinois-based research firm Empty Tomb Inc., which tracks church-giving trends.

            Rick’s Lord giveth but Rick Perry sure as hell don’t giveth away.

        5. But if the election were tomorrow, Republicans wouldn’t even have a candidate yet. As we’ve said before, the actual Republican candidate still has to beat President Obama, and it’s hard to see anyone in the GOP field pulling that off.

  3. .

    no way the Dems renominate Obama.

    There’s no reason to vote for him this time around.

    Recall why you voted for him in 2008.  Well, now that you’ve proven it to yourself once, there’s no need to prove it again.

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