Perry’s poll plunge continues as tea party support erodes
2012 Elections, Breaking News Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
BY DAVE MONTGOMERY, THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
AUSTIN — A precipitous drop in tea party support is contributing to Gov. Rick Perry’s plunge in the polls, undercutting expectations that he would amass a hefty following from the conservative grassroots movement.
The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Perry, the former GOP front-runner, tied for second with Atlanta businessman Herman Cain at 16 percent, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney atop the Republican field with 25 percent. Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C., released a three-state survey that described a “collapse” in Perry’s overall support in North Carolina, Nebraska and West Virginia.
Perry’s supporters, as well as independent analysts, point out that the Republican nomination battle remains unpredictable, saying that Perry, who has never lost an election, still has plenty of time to turn things around.
Perry fund-raisers, eager to portray a campaign on the move, are reportedly preparing to announce quarterly donation totals that exceed expectations. Politico, quoting a source, placed the figure at $15 million — above the campaign’s minimum goal of $10 million — but Perry campaign officials declined to confirm the figures.
President Barack Obama stayed away from direct attacks on the Republican governor Tuesday during an appearance in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, but Ron Kirk, the president’s trade ambassador and Dallas’ first black mayor, suggested to reporters that Perry’s presidential bid is running aground.
“Too often the brightest stars are comets. But they flame out the fastest because they consume themselves on their own energy,” Kirk told reporters on Air Force One. “I think there are some lessons to be learned there in life and in politics. How quickly and how brightly we burn.”
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I don’t think he was ever a Tea Party favorite, it is my opinion that was a media fabrication.
Linda,
During the 4th of July 2008 (or maybe it was 2009) you hit it almost exactly. That day/week Glenn Beck got his listening audience all worked up mentioning how he was going to go down to Texas, Austin, I believe, and was going to join the Tea Party movement celebration that was going to go on that weekend (or whatever those days were). While there he had it arranged to broadcast his show and of course Governor Perry was his prime guest almost to the point of being a co-host with all the sounds of the celebration going on around them. Well, that was the time they both managed their marketing skills well enough to become the “champions” of the Tea Party to the point that Perry was willing to announce that he was ready to secede the state in his dedication to respecting the Constitution and to fight what the “evil” federal government was doing to us by taking us all over. This was to prove how much he believed in states’ rights. He was alluding to being the first state to do such a thing thereby showing his dedication to the real Tea Party movement people and the rest of the country.
Glenn Beck was the medium that the rest of the media picked up from and ran with it. That was the first successful hijacking of the movement that allowed all the others such as Sarah Palin and Turncoat Michele Bachmann to shortly afterwards to do their own takeovers. Therefore you could not have been much closer to the truth than you already hitting the nail on the head as you have.
Rhonda
October 14, 2011/Friday