Texas Governor Perry Thunders Into First Place in Latest GOP Poll

Governor Rick Perry thundered into first place the same week he announced his candidacy for president.

It’s all about Texas jobs, jobs jobs.
He can make ’em. Obama can’t.

Rasmussen reported:

Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13% .

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9% ) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6% ) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5% ). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1% ) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.

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