Rasmussen: Perry = Frontrunner

[Tender Branson]

29% Perry
18% Romney
13% Bachmann
  9% Paul
  6% Cain
  5% Gingrich
  1% Santorum
  1% Huntsman
  0% McCotter
16% Undecided

Seventy percent (70%) of primary voters continue to agree with Romney’s assertion at a debate in June that any one of the Republican candidates would make a better president that Barack Obama.  Twenty percent (20%) disagree.

Perry captures 39% of the vote among GOP primary voters who say they are members of the Tea Party, with Bachmann a distant second with 21% support from this group. Perry barely leads Romney among non-Tea Party members 27% to 24%, but this marks a interesting change from the previous survey when Romney held a double-digit lead over Perry among these voters.

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of primary voters hold a favorable opinion of Perry, with 38% Very Favorable. Bachmann is viewed favorably by 71%, with 32% who share a Very Favorable regard for her.

Romney has slightly higher overall favorable rating – 77% - than Perry and Bachmann, but there’s less enthusiasm in his support. Only 21% hold a Very Favorable opinion of him.

Roughly one-in-five hold an unfavorable view of the three front-runners.

Paul, who emerged as a Cinderella of sorts from the Saturday straw poll, is viewed favorably by 43% and unfavorably by 45%. Gingrich is in a similar position with favorables of 48% and unfavorables of 43%.

For Cain, Santorum, Huntsman and McCotter, name recognition is still a problem, with at least one-in-four primary voters still not aware of them enough to venture any kind of opinion.

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The survey of 1,000 Likely GOP Primary Voters was conducted on August 15, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. Likely GOP Primary Voters include both Republicans and unaffiliated voters likely to vote in a GOP Primary. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.

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

[King]

Sweet.

[justW353]

Sweet.

[Reaganfan]

Sweet.

[redcommander]

Flavor of the month.

[Umengus]

Sweet.

[Umengus]

Romeny is really a paper tiger...

[Lief 🗽]

Anyone who thinks Obama will easily beat this guy is in for a rude awakening. We should be hoping for Romney to win the nomination; there is at least a small chance that he will revert to his actual pragmatic, sensible demeanor and govern as a responsible technocrat.

[Bull Moose Base]

High speed internet means high speed name recognition.  America is the new Iowa. National polls are the new caucuses.  But we need to see more to know this isn't outlier.

Perry has many advantages over Romney: healthcare mandate, job growth, Mormonism, flip on abortion, Tea Party's power.  His biggest hurdle is that Bachmann (so far) looks like a stronger opponent in your bracket than Huntsman.

[Eraserhead]

Scott has found his candidate.

[King]

healthcare mandate, job growth, Mormonism, flip on abortion, Tea Party's power.

It's sad we live in the world where those are negatives against Romney.

[NVGonzalez]

Sweet.

bipartisanship in style.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Really? I didn't see this one coming. Is Romney the new Giuliani? Although Rudy held the national lead until after the Iowa caucuses, I think.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Given that other polling still has Romney in the front, I'd say that he's a few points lower.

However, the poll isn't too shocking. Hoping for a slugfest which destroys them both.

[Simfan34]

Flavor of the month.

[TJ in Oregon]

Yikes, this had better pass or we're going to get four more years of Obama.