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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Tulsa Press Club in Tulsa, Okla., on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011.
By Karoun Demirjian (contact) 
Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 | 7:43 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during the Iowa GOP/Fox News Debate at the CY Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011.
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Could Nevada catch Perry fever?
According to a poll released Friday by Republican firm Magellan Strategies, it already has.
The poll of 631 Republicans puts Texas Gov. Rick Perry up five points over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the GOP presidential primary race in Nevada. Perry draws 29 percent of the vote, while Romney draws 24 percent.
Nationally, those numbers wouldn’t be all that dramatic or surprising. But Nevada is a state Romney won handily in the 2008 presidential primaries. It’s a state in which Romney has the best and most established ground organization.
He’s even highlighting the Silver State on the national campaign trail — Romney unveils his big jobs plan in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Perry hasn’t even shown up.
Still, Perry’s numbers in this poll are solid: 64 percent of those surveyed have a favorable opinion of Perry, compared to 63 percent for Romney; 16 percent have an unfavorable opinion of Perry, compared to 21 percent for Romney; and 18 percent have never heard of Perry, while 15 percent have never heard of Romney.
It’s a close race. But in a poll with a 4 percent margin of error, the takeaway is less about who between Romney and Perry will win and more of an indication that Nevada’s shaping up to be a two-way race.
Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich each secured between 5 and 7 percent of the potential vote in the Magellan poll of Republicans, 96 percent of whom said they are extremely or very likely to vote in the Nevada caucuses.
Of course, turnout on caucus day depends more on the comparative organization of the campaigns. Paul’s outfit, which turned out a second-place finish in 2008, already has boots on the ground, while Bachmann’s campaign hasn’t yet decided when or if it will be campaigning in Nevada.
Because the Nevada caucuses aren’t winner-take-all, if two candidates make a strong showing, they’ll split the spoil of delegates.
These folks are "likely GOP voters" and yet 18% of them have never heard of Perry and 15% of them have never heard of Romney ????
You got to be pretty stupid to vote for any of the republicans. They are all idiots.
None of these goof-ball republicans have a chance
against President Obama.
Their wasting their time and money.
These greedy republicans already destroyed our
economy.
Americans would be out of their minds to vote
for them.
dxlh hit it on the head.
Both Romney and even more so Perry lack name recognition.
Normally at this point in time, the resident President has like a 10 to 15 point lead over generic candidates in polls.
Obama is either tied or slightly behind.
That means he is starting off with being 10 to 15 points in the hole.
He has a tough race ahead.
No wonder he dumped his anti-business EPA plan.
In the future, when you site a poll can you please link to the polling methods and data. The results without this context for the interested voter is less useful. For instance, was this a poll that focused on Romney and Perry, or were all candidates given an equal chance to be the "candidate of choice" for the person polled? Were all listed initially? Was there a rotating order? The methods may be mundane for the body of the story but a link to the full report relied upon by the reporter is easy.
Heh heh... "cite" a poll. Thanks!
Dayvid: There is now a link in the story that might answer some of your questions. Thanks.
If Obama doesn't grow some grapes then we better learn to like President Perry.
Palin's just sitting back, filing her nails, shopping the web, a'twittering, waiting to swoop into a locked convention, and win the nomination.
Palin/Bachman '12!
Oh, yeaah!
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<<Palin/Bachman '12!
Oh, yeaah!>>
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Good one!!
Who ever thought that it would only take two and a half years for Obama to make Bush look good...
Mitt Romney reminds me of Damien Thorn of the movie "The Omen." Does he bear the mark of the beast "666" on his head? Hopefully, I can get out to the redneck truck dealership in NLV this week to carry my sign calling for a Romney skull check. Guess there will be some TEABAGS there too. If the Unions don't get out there to oppose this guy they will miss a golden opportunity.
If anybody ever deserved a second term its our great president Obama! Well done! Yes I am nuts.
Forget the terrorist threat. What America cannot survive is another inept former Texas governor with his cowboy boots propped up on the desk in the Oval Office.
It'll take fifty years minimum to get out of the hole Dumbya and his right-wing henchmen put us in.
What's wrong with Sharron Angle? Why isn't her name on the list of most qualified teabaggers?
One of their best and brightest, yet no support. It doesn't make sense.
I think the bigger take away from this poll is that virtually HALF of those polled considered themselves to be part of the "TEA PARTY MOVEMENT." I think the results of this poll might not accurately reflect all likely Republican voters in the State unless there's been some sort of huge shift that has been unreported.
I would love to have our State back the way it was, and so many of the haters on this page could go back to "real job's) including me. But, I want to say, a lot of People in the Tea Party were NOT Sharron Angle supporters. Many on this page are no better than she was/is..thinking differently. You just keep bad mouthing Tea Party citizens, you will see, we know where we need to go, and you just keep adding fuel. I am SOOO Tea Party Positive, but I am NOT Tea Party Express, or .org or .net. Tea Party people are simply for Stopping this spending, smaller government, and State's right's.
So where were you Teabaggers when Bush ran up the bill? Perry just might win the Republican nomination because of the Teabaggers who can be counted on to vote for the absolute dumbest politician. Perry will face Obama where he will lose by a wide margin in the general election. Why? Because the American people don't want these extreme right wing nutcases running the country.
Actually, liberals are scared to see our country live within it's means. That means less money for their liberal agenda. Obama contributes $4.1 billion a day to our national debt compared to $1.2 billion under Bush. 4 more years of Obama's spending? No way.
Yeah, let's put the country in the hands of the tea baggers, and then let's see what happens. This would mean the end of our country.
Brain,
It means job growth and deficit reduction. Two foreign concepts to Obama and liberals.
REPUBLICANS= Greed, Theft, Laziness, Incompetence, Racisim, War Crimes...Republicans are dispicable Americans
Morning Joe "Look, I have no idea whether Rick Perry is the kind of guy who would get confused if you invited him into the Oval Office and told him to sit in the corner. I do know that he's been a C-130 pilot, has made a fortune in real estate, and has been elected governor of Texas three times. And unless your name is Rick Perry, you haven't done that, or at least all of that. So if all of that stuff is so easy that a caveman could do it, why haven't you done it?"
Perry's a C-130 pilot and leading the race in NV? Haven't Nevadans had enough of Air Force Republicans heading the executive branch? Surely we can't all have forgotten what an inept idiot Governor Jim Gibbons was.
<<Who ever thought that it would only take two and a half years for Obama to make Bush look good...>>
Mmmmm...this article has nothing to do with Obama OR Bush.
"I do know that he's been a C-130 pilot, has made a fortune in real estate, and has been elected governor of Texas three times"
Gee, real good credentials to be president. Did he pilot those C-130's in a war zone? Nope. So he made a fortune in real estate. So did Donald Trump and a lot of other people. As far as being governor of Texas 3 times - don't know if it was because he was good at the job or the good people of TX had no other good candidate to choose from. He was just the lessor of two evils.
When your policies are anti-business and job growth you'll take a hard look at other candidates. I'm surprised Obama doesn't have a primary challenger. He can't run on his record so he has to demagogue and name-call for the next 14 months and that will get old on voters.
And still nobody wants to address the most important issue. This country has got to STOP spending money it simply does not have. People still don't get it. Across the board, everyone is going to have to suffer for decades to get the spending to a level that meets income. No one seems willing to sacrifice. I'd rather vote for someone who is honest with me and tells me the deficit and debt are going to be a noose around our throats for decades than some politico telling me "I'll solve the problem, vote for me"
Obama has already demonstrated the economy is beyond his means to do anything.
Perry is no different. Job creation my @ss. A bunch of poverty minimum wage jobs he created and then calls himself the savior. "vote for me". Republican, Democrat, Tea Party...it's all a big game to grab power with no real solid idea how to reign in spending and actually implement it.
Rick Perry could very well be our next president. As destructive as that may be.
It's suspicious that a secessionist like Perry wants to be President. Will he really defend the Union, like Lincoln, or does he have a secret plan to allow states to break away?
Palin/Bachman '12!
Texas Governor Perry was a Democrat in his last life, now as a Republican what does he stand for? What does he propose to help the country if elected? How will he handle unemployment? How will he handle foreign affairs? Until the mystery of what he thinks, feels and believes surfaces, I'll stay with Romney.
It says everything that GOP voters have flocked to Dubya 2.0 over the rest of their field.
All that talk about how the tea party changed the GOP, and the frontrunner is just another Dubya republican clone.
I hope Perry wins the nomination. I'd love to see Obama run against Dubya again.
I'd love to see Perry get the nomination and go head-to-head with Obama and his dismal economy and jobs record. Obama has lost a ton of independents.
Well this race is all but over, doesn't take a genius to see its Perry verses Obama, The only real question is who he picks as VP, probably Rubio, but I think Sandoval is in the running also.
Wouldn't it be great if these comment sections came equipped with an "ignore the author" feature? A little check box after everyone's nick that would allow each viewer to collapse comments from individuals they find offensive. Each reader could create their own personalized "ignore list" database for all future comments. No one would feel they are being censored, because no one would know whose ignore list they are on.
Doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to incorporate. It will probably be standard equipment in the next updated version of internet.
The way it stands right now, these comment sections are like walking through a mine field. Too much of a challenge weeding out the good from the bad. Way too much rude commentary.
Good-bye.
Perry Perry, quite contrary...
OH, how your nose does grow!!!
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/18...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70028893@N0...
http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin...
http://saintpetersblog.com/2011/08/acuta...
@ GMAG39
Good stuff!!!
gmag's post are silly. It is mainly splitting hairs and making arguments like this: "Perry said the sky is blue. He lied!!!!!!!!!! At night the sky is black!!!!!!!"
As for the post by some guy in his underwear blogging away in his mother's house, if one argues that Texas's employment growh is false then that would also cut into what tiny jobs nationally Obama can get credit with.
It was truly a pathetic post.
If that is all you got then Perry is on track to crush Obama. Hopefully in the future you can come up with better stuff. Otherwise, it will be a boring landslide election.
Good call Sarge on gmag is one of the worst posters here when it comes to stretching (and thats putting it mildly) facts. gmag is the reason that liberal is or has become a bad name. I wish posters like gmag would just go away to after election.
"Perry fever"? Is that similar to "Angle fever"?
jaunsanchez--it doesn't take a genius to see that it will be Obama v Romney, with Obama the winner.
When I think about elections and who is running. I look at what they have done. With Gov.Perry in power Texas has performed far better than any other State during this economic Crisis. At least Gov. Perry has managed to keep the State Government out of the way and let business do what it does best. They create jobs. If for no other reason Gov. Perry stands above the other candidates.
Maybe if Perry gets in the White house he can burn it down and put a more lavish structure in its place like he did in Texas.He could get a stimulus package,and use illegal immigrants as labor so it is really like a gift to Mexico.I just saw a poll in the Houston Chronicle that put Ron Paul at 73% it seems that Texans don't agree with Tricky Rick!
Polls are meaningless in terms of the general election, which is more than a year away. By next summer most of the GOP candidates we are discussing now will have packed their bags and gone home.
Ron Paul is the only one who can beat Obama. A lot of lib "anti war" supporters would vote for him as well as a lot of "anti big corporation" libs who see obama for being the corporate howare that he is. (as are all the other Rep's running for president, Bush, etc)
Fact is Dr Paul would not be able to "cut" programs as he wishes, that would take the approval of Congress, but he would be able to bring the troops home right away being the commander and chief of the military. He would be able to close gitmo right away. He would be able to cut all aid to Israel and all other countries right away and focus his attention on our borders and our dismal fiscal and financial situation at home. Anyone but Ron Paul will keep the status quo; open borders, more unjust undeclared wars, more waste, etc etc. The way I see it this country does the right thing and elects Ron Paul this time around to provide a strong "check and balance" against the big spenders or this bus continues full speed ahead towards a cliff.
"I do know that he's been a C-130 pilot, has made a fortune in real estate, and has been elected governor of Texas three times"
If you have a problem with Senator Reid's land deals, then you'll have a problem with Perry's. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/...
Perry was reelected in 2006 with a whopping 39% of the vote.
What happened to the Tea Party call to get rid of career politicians? Perry's been in office for 27 years. Obama's a newcomer.
This is only meant to get a rise out of people. No one should look at any of these polls until the summer before the election. All of this is for nothing anyway. Because the ones that want to run for president have until like November 2nd to get their names in the hat.
Rick Perry:
"Texans, on the other hand, elect folks like me -- you know the type, the kind of guy who goes jogging in the morning packing a Ruger .380 with laser sights, loaded with hollow point bullets, and shoots a coyote that is threatening his daughter's dog."
- Protecting the dogs of America and following in the footsteps of Jesus, his favorite philosopher.
He'll drive the coyotes out of Washington, like Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland...except the coyotes will be replaced by wolves.
um, james f. nance, jr., aka sgtrock, et.al, and your little buddy "magicjuan"...
(is magicjuan ANOTHER one of your alter egos, Nance?)
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Hey, boys...
after the coming election,
will you cry like little girls like you did when Crazy Angle threw her own election, or like you did when your good pal the Less Than Honorable Senator Ensign resigned?
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!