The Houston Chronicle is reporting that Governor Rick Perry didn't fair very well in a Presidential straw poll taken over the weekend at a Tea Party event in Arizona.
The Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit was held in Phoenix over the weekend. It was actually a two step poll. One was a live vote. The other an online vote. Governor Perry didn't do well in either poll. His high mark was 1.82% in the live poll. Online he only got 1.01% Radio talk show host Herman Cain won the live vote. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty took 2nd place, about 5% back of Cain. Texas Congressman Ron Paul was 3rd in the live vote but blew away the field in winning the online poll with 49% of the vote. Cain took 2nd place with 12% of the vote.
Texas Monthly's Paul Burka had a couple of interesting points on the vote.
- He doesn't think the Tea Party or any group will be relevent in the 2012 election with Herman Cain or Ron Paul as their lead candidate.
- He continues to think Governor Perry is considering a run as either President or Vice-President no matter what the polls say.
Here are the full poll results:
Candidate ........... Live .......... Online
Tim Pawlenty.....15.87%.....4.76%
Herman Cain.....21.98%.....12.46%
Sarah Palin........10.08%.....8.92%
Haley Barbour.....0.99%.....0.30%
Michele Bachmann..5.62%...3.65%
Mike Huckabee....4.63%.....5.88%
Newt Gingrich.....5.29%.....4.76%
Jon Huntsman.....0.17%....0.20%
Mitt Romney.......6.45%.......4.46%
Rick Perry...........1.82%......1.01%
Mitch Daniels.....4.46%.....1.82%
Rick Santorum....0.50%.....0.71%
Ron Paul...........15.04%......49.65%
Barack Obama...0.17%.....0.30%
Donald Trump.....3.14%.....0.00%
Other....................3.80%.....1.11%
