Quinnipiac poll shows slimmer Perry edge
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 8/31/11 6:11 AM EDT
Make that four polls in a row showing Rick Perry with a national lead over Mitt Romney.
Quinnipiac University has a fresh survey out this morning that gives Perry a 24 percent to 18 percent advantage against Romney. That’s a narrower gap than the Gallup, PPP and CNN surveys that have been released over the last week and a half; each of those polls put Perry ahead of Romney by double digits.
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That doesn't mean Perry's lead over Romney has narrowed. It just means that Quinnipiac captured a different snapshot of the race than other pollsters. The poll was in the field from Aug. 16-27, interviewing 2,730 registered voters, not only about the Republican presidential primary.
At this early point, there’s not a marked difference between Perry and Romney in how they fare against President Obama. Perry trails the president by 3 points, 42 percent to 45 percent, while Romney and Obama tie at 45 percent.
While Perry is clearly a formidable primary opponent for Romney, it’s not as if GOP primary voters have turned on the former Massachusetts governor. Among Republicans, Romney has a favorability rating of 57 percent positive, 14 percent negative. For Perry, those numbers are 44 percent positive, 5 percent negative, so there’s room for the Texan to grow in both directions.
In third place in the GOP primary poll is Sarah Palin, with 11 percent, followed by Michele Bachmann with 10 percent and Ron Paul with 9 percent. Herman Cain comes next, with 5 percent, and then Newt Gingrich, with 3 percent. Tied for last place are Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum and Thaddeus McCotter, with 1 percent apiece.
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