Who is the Tea Party favorite?

The conventional wisdom has been that Michele Bachmann is the Tea Party favorite. Polls on TPN have shown Michele Bachmann to be the favorite. But now Gallup has come out with a poll that shows something completely different.

From USA Today:

Tea Party supporters back Rick Perry for the GOP presidential nomination, giving him a strong double-digit lead in the latest Gallup Poll over rivals Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann.

Perry is the choice of 35% of the Republicans and GOP-leaning independents who consider themselves supporters of the small government, anti-tax movement. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, and Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman who founded the House Tea Party Caucus, were each the choice of 14% of Tea Party supporters.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, whose libertarian views have attracted a following in his three presidential bids, was the only other GOP candidate to rank in the double digits, as the choice of 12% of Tea Party supporters.

Nearly six in 10 Republicans in the Gallup survey consider themselves Tea Party supporters.

Overall, Perry is the top choice for the GOP presidential nomination, surpassing Romney by 12 percentage points in the Gallup Poll.

Given Perry's lead among Tea Party supporters, it's not surprising to find the Texas governor as the top choice for those voters who say "government spending and power" is the most important issue to them. He's the choice of 31% who say "government spending and power" is the most important issue, followed by Romney with 17%.

Perry has clearly surging but what will happen after Perry goes through a couple of debates?

We will see.

11 members like this

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Swarming Bees on September 5, 2011 at 10:26am

And I guess that because Faux News says that Perry is now the "official," front runner that he really is? They use all those manufactered polls to try to prove their point, but most of us know all about those polls. I.m supposed to believe that all Perry has to do is announce he's in, and some GOP elitist waves a magic wand, and Perry is now the front runner, when he has never appeared in a presidential debate for the grassroots voter to determind if they really like him? I hear from others from Texas even on this site who have a different worldview of Perry than you do Ray, so I have to take your word of someone who is biased for him and I have to wonder, with others from Texas who disagree with you about Mr. Wonderful.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by CoChair on September 5, 2011 at 10:56am

Sure, I've never denied being a supporter, but I also consider it a resposibility to support the millions who has supported him as well as supporting the State officials who drafted laws that most support and that Perry signed.

I do not think that just because he has intered the race he should be the frontrunner, however, should one consider those running, I certainly look at qualification, the polls just might be be reflecting same. Should the people allow theselves to accept everything they read as facts, this party has serious problems. The polls are clearly indicating that all of this crap some are throwing out isn't sticking and the only thing is those indiviuals are being nutralized and defined to what they rerepresent.

Permalink Reply by Truly Patriotic Person on September 5, 2011 at 10:51am

Ha!

Here's a new discussion that you might wish to comment on.

Support Rick Perry...because he's a Bilderberger!

Perhaps some will disagree. But it is a different approach...

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Laura Alford on September 6, 2011 at 6:51am

Here are some interesting voting statistics for Texas:

In 2008 there were 12.7 million registered voters.

In 2008 there were 17.7 million of voting age.

In 2010 Perry (R) received 2.7 million votes and won the governor's race.

In 2010 White (D) received 2.1 million votes.

What's wrong with this picture? Nearly 8 million people did not vote.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Laura Alford on September 4, 2011 at 10:13pm

Thank you, Dan. I'm with you. Not everyone from Texas has scales on their eyes.

Why did it ever come down to this? Greed, worldliness, a lack of faith looking to man not God.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by CoChair on September 5, 2011 at 9:59am

There are alot of PHDs at Harvard or Yale or wherever teaching political science, would that qualify that what they teach are factual, I think not.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by CoChair on September 3, 2011 at 12:39pm

Myke, give us some new meat, this is tainted.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Lawrence Brown on September 2, 2011 at 2:19pm

Why would anyone vote for someone that doesnot believe in our constitution? Are they truly americans,liberal americans who hates our way of life,or someone that believes that america should be a 3rd world country. Our constitution if adhered to would help many of our problems disappear. When voting forget about yourself and put our country The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA first. If we were living by that document today all this complaining would be gone. This country was built on the ideas of our founding fathers. We surpassed all other countries,as the youngest we excelled to greatness when other were just floating along. Just think how our forefathers had to work to make a living. They didnot believe in handouts,if they wanted to eat they worked at whatever was available. Unless we adapted our thinking we will fail and all will become enslaved by liberal progressive,marxist,Islamic society.