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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.
This poll says more about how terrible the Republican presidential field is rather than an affirmation of Rick Perry as the redeemer candidate. If George W. Bush himself was to suddenly declare his candidacy (and if that was legal), he too would probably be taken by Republican voters as a welcome relief.