The Survivor

This article came from The Economist. Three terms to know are rout: fashionable gathering, Rasmussen: biographical name. http://www.economist.com/
Rick Perry, current governor of Texas, has been campaigning in recent days to maintain incumbetn of that office. A Rasmussen poll on February 1st gave a Perry a 15 point lead over his close4st opponent for the Republican nomination Kay Bailey Hutchison, the state's senior senator. Although Perry has gained the support of the constituents in America's second largest state, there was a time when Mr. Perry angered his conservative base. Governor Perry made tha suggestion that schoolgirls have mandatory vaccines against the Human Papilloma Virus perofrmed. However insulting this may be to my fellow schoolgirls, it is likely that Perry will cruise right through the primary in his bid to remain governor of Texas.

During Perry's campaign speech, he slandered Barack Obama's expensive stimulus package saying if he was in charge of federal spending the departments of energy and education would be the first to go. The rout drownd his speech with praise and aplomb. Perry plans on using all of this success and support from the Republican Party to face President Obama head on in 2012. Perry is a thrice-elected gorvernor from a big state which has boomed under his management. This sound very qappealing to the Republicans.