Florida Republicans presently favor Texas Gov. Rick Perry by a minor margin over ex Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in their party's fight to locate a contestant to face President Barack Obama next year, a fresh survey revealed Thursday shows.
Perry was preferred by 28% of the 374 registered Republican voters compared to 22% who would like to see Romney as their candidate. The random telephone review, made Sept. 14-19 Quinnipiac University, has a margin of mistake of plus or minus 5.1% points. No other Republican presidential confident in the prevalent field of nominees received two-digit support.
The survey comes out ahead of Thursday afternoon's nominee forum and an evening debate in swing-state Florida.
Perry's lead over Romney was even largest should ex Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stay out of the competition and also between GOP voters who explained themselves as ingredient of the Tea Party movement.
Perry was preferred by 32% of Republicans to 21% who admired Romney significant in a race without Palin. The Texas governor led Romney 55% to 35% among Tea Party folks.
Though, Quinnipiac's survey appeared Obama would be much harder to beat if Perry becomes the Republican candidate, greatly because Perry has work to do with voters freely of either biggest political party.
Romney, in a wider poll of 1,007 registered voters, was preferred by 47% to Obama's 40%. Obama had a statistically pointless 44-42 edge in a matchup with Perry. That larger sampling had a margin of mistake of 3.1%.
Perry also has work to do with Florida elders on his conviction that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme." The 58% said it was unjust to illustrate Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme," and there was practically no favor for declining Social Security with the exemption of raising the cap from the present $106,800 in salary subject to the tax.
Though Obama carried Florida by an easier margin in his 2008 winning over Republican John McCain, 53% of those inquired in the Quinnipiac poll said the president does not justify a second term compared to 41% who think he does.
Florida's 29 electoral votes are the most of any state thought to be a swing state in the 2012 general vote.
