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Title: Social Security hurting Perry? (Obama up by 11)
Source:
PPP
URL Source: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/ ... republican-presidential-d.html
Published: Sep 14, 2011
Author: PPP
Post Date: 2011-09-14 09:01:35 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 325
Comments: 7
Americans strongly disagree with the statements Rick Perry made about Social Security in last week's Republican Presidential debate, and Barack Obama has nearly doubled his lead over Perry nationally in the span of just 3 weeks. Only 20% of voters agree with Perry that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme to 70% who dissent from that statement. Democrats (4/87) and independents (20/69) are pretty universal in their disagreement with Perry and even Republicans (39/49) don't stand with him on this one. When it comes to the possibility of actually ending Social Security voters are even more unanimous- 82% oppose taking that step to only 10% who would be supportive of it. If Perry ends up as the Republican nominee and Democrats can effectively convince the electorate that he does want to end Social Security it could be an extremely damaging issue for him. In fact it appears that Perry's rhetoric on Social Security could already be causing him problems. When PPP did a national poll three weeks ago Barack Obama led Perry by only 6 points at 49-43. Now that gap has widened to 11 points at 52-41. The main movement has come with Democratic voters. On the previous poll Obama had only a 68 point lead with the party base at 81-13 but now it's 80 points at 89-9. We know there are a lot of Democratic voters disenchanted with Obama right now but if the GOP puts forward someone like Perry who's willing to go after one of the Holy Grails of the party's orthodoxy like Social Security it might scare those voters back into the fold.
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IN the general it will, but its illegal immigration that will kill Perry within the GOP primaries. So this really won't matter. And then its going to be nothing but THE ECONOMY STUPID. And that produces a landslide victory next year for the GOP. There are only two real questions left. Who the GOP nominee will be, and will the GOP gain a 60 seat majority in the Senate next year.
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