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Filed in National by on September 21, 2011

Hurricane Irene’s flooding rains damaged a significant portion of the Delaware’s pumpkin crop and blew down a lot of the corn crop.

The latest Gallup/USA Today poll shows Rick Perry continuing to lead the Republican presidential field at the national level with 31% support, followed by Mitt Romney with 24%. In a one-on-one scenario, Perry would lead Romney, 49% to 39%.

In South Carolina, Perry is considered the favorite to win the state’s GOP presidential primary, but a new Winthrop poll shows the Texas governor with a narrow lead over Romney in the state, 31% to 27%.

Allahpundit thinks with the collapse of Bachmann and with Perry not running away with it, Sarah Palin has an opening.

Perry’s window to steamroll the rest of the field is now closed. If he had had two monster debate performances and widened his lead over Romney, you might see more big donors starting to shake loose and fall into his camp as the inevitable nominee. As it is, Palin must be watching his backsliding and Bachmann’s collapse and feeling more encouraged to run than ever. Still plenty of tea-party votes in play, and who knows how much of Perry’s support is owed not to his jobs record or any personal attribute but simply to him being a “true conservative” alternative to Romney.

And there is a new National Journal poll out:


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  1. puck says:
    September 21, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    Elizabeth Warren is on fire:

    I hear all this, oh this is class warfare, no! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea — God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

    I wish our Delaware Senators spoke fluent Democrat like that. And she is already polling ahead of Scott Brown.

    Bonus video: Warren on Morning Joe.

  2. Jason330 says:
    September 21, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    Great quote from Warren. Someone forward it to Carper.

  3. puck says:
    September 21, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    Warren can explain to Carper and Coons herself on the Senate floor.

  4. skippertee says:
    September 21, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    The money I never gave to that CREEP Tommy “Carpetbagger” Carper I’m sending to Elizabeth Warren.
    Hope it helps to CRUSH that Brown clown.

  5. PBaumbach says:
    September 21, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    I just got an email from President Obama’s reelection campaign. Since the 2008 election I have thus far held back, and told anyone on the phone the reason.

    Today I am sending a few dollars now (before the 9/30 deadline), to provide timely, positive reinforcement to this (about freakin’ time) strategy of not starting the negotiation by giving away the farm.

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