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National
poll: Perry leads GOP pack;
Obama, Romney in dead heat
By William Hershey
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Texas
Gov. Rick Perry has zoomed to
the front of the pack among registered Republicans in the race for the
2012 GOP
presidential nomination in a national Quinnipiac University poll
released
Wednesday (Aug. 31).
In
a matchup with Democratic President
Barack Obama, however, Obama edges Perry, a latecomer to the
presidential race,
45-42 percent, among all voters.
In
another matchup, Obama and
Republican Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, are
deadlocked,
45-45 percent.
Perry’s
emergence as the GOP
frontrunner, however, appears to be the poll’s big news. Among
Republican
voters, he gets 24 percent compared to 18 percent for Romney.
“Being
the new kid on the block has
benefited Perry,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac
University
Polling Institute, said in a press release.
“But
with the prominence comes
scrutiny and both his Republican competitors and the Democrats are
doing their
best to convince voters he’s not Mr. Wonderful. The next few months
will be a
race between Perry and his Republican and Democratic opponents to
define him
for the vast majority of the American people.”
Other
top GOP finishers: former Alaska
governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, 11 percent; U.S.
Rep.
Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, 10 percent; U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas,
9
percent and businessman Herman Cain, 5 percent...
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