Michele Bachmann And Rick Perry Have Almost No Hope Of Getting Re-Elected
Former Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry not only did so poorly on the campaign trail that they had to quit (“suspend”) their campaigns, but voters in their respective states were paying attention, and now, both Bachmann and Perry are polling so poorly that they have almost no hope of getting re-elected.
Michele Bachmann, as a U.S. Representative, faces election every two years. Voters in her home state of Minnesota now brand her as all but un-electable, with a majority, 57%, believing Bachmann should not run for re-election. Public Policy Polling, after a poll released just a few days ago, labels Bachmann “unpopular,” stating the anti-gay, anti-abortion theocrat “would have a hard time getting elected to statewide office in the future.”
Texas Governor Rick Perry, also an anti-gay, anti-abortion theocrat, is now polling worse than the man he was trying to beat, President Barack Obama.
“His image has slipped, with 37 percent saying they have a less favorable view of him following the campaign, and 45 percent saying that his run has hurt the state’s image,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
The News quotes pollster Mickey Blum calling Perry’s run for president, “disastrous,” adding that in Texas there is now “a real sense of lost confidence,†in the Texas Governor.
The poll shows 40 percent of Texans approve of the job Perry’s doing as governor — down 10 points from a year ago. He has lost ground among Republicans — from 73 to 60 percent over the past year — and also independents, from almost half to 27 percent.
Comparably, 43 percent of Texans currently approve of the job Obama is doing as president.
And Political Wire adds,
The poll also showed that most Texans — 53% — do not want to see Perry seek another term as governor. Even some of his strongest supporters — 41% of Republicans and 35% of those who voted for him two years ago — don’t want him to run again.
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