Pew national: Romney 21% Perry 12% Palin 11% Bachmann 11% Paul 9% Cain 8%

[Mr. Morden]

Pew GOP national primary poll....Romney leads all Republicans, but he's tied with Perry among "Tea Partiers":

http://people-press.org/2011/07/28/obama-loses-ground-in-2012-reelection-bid/



Perry also leads Romney among those who claim to be paying a lot of attention to the race:



Bachmann is getting the most coverage at the moment:



Obama's job approval is worse than that of Bush I, Clinton, or Bush II at comparable times in their presidencies, though he actually does slightly better than Clinton against "Generic Republican":

[tmthforu94]

I find it odd that in Bush Sr.'s numbers, despite 55% approval, he trailed a Generic Democrat 44-41.

["'Oeps!' De blunders van Rick Perry Indicted"]

I find it odd that in Bush Sr.'s numbers, despite 55% approval, he trailed a Generic Democrat 44-41.

Foreign policy events (Gulf War, collapse of the Soviet Union) inflated Bush's approvals for most of '91.