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Quite an upset since Rick Perry contest this Florida GOP straw poll.
Former pizza executive Herman Cain surprised rival Rick Perry with an upset victory on Saturday in a nonbinding Republican presidential straw poll in Florida, dealing a disappointing loss to the Texas governor two days after a shaky debate performance.
Perry, leading in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, had needed a victory in the key test of strength in a crucial state to salve the wounds left over from a debate with his rivals on Thursday in which he struggled.
Instead, former Godfather’s Pizza executive Cain, who is far behind the two top-tier candidates Perry and Mitt Romney, won with 37 percent of 2,657 votes cast.
Perry was a distant second at 15 percent, just ahead of Romney, who won 14 percent despite not participating in the poll. Further back were Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Michele Bachmann.
Neither Mitt Romney nor Michele Bachmann competed in the straw poll, but Perry did.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that while Rick Perry is the current front-runner in GOP Polls that when the new polls come out, he will have shown a drop. Perry’s debate performacne was booed by the Florida Republican audience and his campaign has taken severe hits over Perry’s statements and/or record on Social Security, mandated Gardasil vaccinations and illegal immigration.
Next week’s polls should give us an indication whether Perry is another GOP flavor of the month front-runner or whether he remains a favorite in the Presidential field.
But, losing head to head against Herman Cain cannot be viewed as a positive development in Rick Perry’s campaign.
Tags: Herman Cain, President 2012, Rick Perry
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According to the latest Gallup Poll.
Asked to compare Barack Obama with George W. Bush, Americans are more inclined to say Obama has been a better (43%) rather than a worse (34%) president, with 22% seeing no difference between the two. Obama compares much less favorably to Bill Clinton, with half saying Obama has been worse than Clinton and 12% saying better.
These results are based on a Sept. 15-18 USA Today/Gallup poll. Obama succeeded Bush as president during a down economy that is still struggling to recover. Thus, a key comparison voters will make is whether Obama is doing better than his predecessor, which would enhance his chances of re-election, or worse than Bush, which makes it less likely Americans would reward him with a second term.
It could be argued that saying Obama has been about the same as Bush is also a negative evaluation, given that Bush left office with low approval ratings and Americans generally did not judge his presidency to be very successful.
Indeed, those who say Obama has been about the same as Bush generally view Obama negatively, with 27% approving and 62% disapproving of the way Obama is handling his job as president.
Thus, in order to win re-election, Obama likely needs to convince voters he is doing a better job than his predecessor did.
After the debate last night in Florida, unless another candidate enters the field, it looks like Mitt Romney will be the candidate that will limit President Obama to one term and one term only. With economic conditions the way they are nobody will buy the argument that Obama has been doing a better job than Bush.
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Polling
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