Perry’s Star Begins To Fade With Voters

Ron Paul still most competitive in new polls

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Sept 15, 2011

Rick Perry’s status as front runner in the race for the GOP nomination is beginning to falter it seems, if the latest national poll released by Rasmussen is anything to go by.

Just two weeks ago, Perry held a three point lead over Obama in a hypothetical match up, since his performance in the debates, he has slipped and trails Obama 46% to 39%.

Perry trails Obama by 15 percentage points among women and barely leads among men.

Even mainstream media pundits agreed Perry’s performances, particularly his exchanges with Ron Paul, in the debates were distinctly average.

In addition, much coverage over the past fortnight has focused on Perry’s Democratic past and his flip flopping over the Gardasil mandate he oversaw in Texas.

Meanwhile in a new Reuters/Ipsos survey, Ron Paul emerges as one of the most competitive Republican candidates with registered voters when pitted directly against Obama.

Paul attracts 42% of voters to 49% for Obama, while other candidates such as Perry, Bachmann and Huntsman all fail to draw the president below 50%.

“Our campaign has been gaining momentum for some time now, and this is yet another poll that clearly proves how competitive we are versus the Presidentâ€