Excerpt :
"Even in the red state of Texas, voters aren’t wild about their potential entrant into the 2012 field, Gov. Rick Perry. A recent PPP survey found Perry’s poll numbers underwater, with the governor viewed favorably by 42 percent and unfavorably by 50 percent. And among the state’s Republicans, just 4 percent wanted Perry to be the GOP nominee, according to a poll conducted by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune".
And now Rick Perry is greatly diminishing the Education Budget for Texas doing great harm to the Millions of Latino and Minority Children in that state. At the same time he keeps the most ridiculous Tax Loopholes for Big Oil, Big Corporations and the Wealthy.
Rick Perry is pandering to Racists, Bigots, and the hatred of Ethnics with his "Sanctuary Cities" law. He could win a lot of Republican primaries and sink miserably in the General Presidential Election of November 2012.
Moreover there is a Great Insatisfaction and even anger inside the Texas Republican Party and Texas Business over the "Sanctuary Cities" law, not all Republicans are fools that want to enrage 38% of Texas Electorate.
POLITICO.COM
The GOP's unfavorite son primary
By MOLLY BALL
June 16, 2011
The GOP's unfavorite son primary
Some excerpts :
Mitt Romney had a ready answer Tuesday when asked about his Massachusetts health care law.
“I am not running for governor of Massachusetts,” he said. “I am running for president of the United States.”
It’s a good thing — if he were running in his home state again, he’d probably lose.
Romney’s not the only presidential hopeful whose home state popularity is lagging. Just about all of the GOP presidential candidates would have a hard time winning their own states if they ended up as the party nominee, which may factor into the thinking among many Republicans that the 2012 field is lackluster.
The phenomenon marks a departure from the campaign days of old when “favorite son” candidates could point to their home-state popularity as a crucial part of their sales pitch.
The 2012 field, by contrast, is largely made up of unfavorite sons.
Tim Pawlenty never received a majority of the vote in Minnesota in his two successful runs for governor. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann almost certainly couldn’t win the state — her high-water mark in her own GOP-friendly district was 53 percent, registered during the Republican landslide year of 2010.
In statewide polls conducted by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, both had higher unfavorable ratings than favorable.
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Steven Schier, a political science professor at Minnesota’s Carleton College :
It’s been said of Pawlenty’s fellow Minnesotan Bachmann that she has to seek the presidency because she can’t win higher office in Minnesota. But that argument doesn’t bode well for her viability as a national candidate, Schier noted.
“Statewide, there’s no way she could win in Minnesota,” he said. “So she thinks she could win nationally? That has to come up at some point, and that is her main problem.”
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