NC-PPP: Obama tied with Perry - leads others

[Brittain33]

This is the first map in which Romney loses a state to President Obama that Rick Perry wins. Of course this comes before the Republican debate in which Perry asserted that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Romney has typically been stronger than Perry.

Perry asserted that well before this week.

He had hesitated to reaffirm it until the debate. It was an opportunity for him to revise what he said, but he doubled down.