ASBURY PARK, N.J., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the current frontrunner in the Republican race for U.S. president, a poll indicates.
Rasmussen Reports surveyed likely Republican primary voters Monday night, two days after Perry formally entered the race for the GOP nomination and after U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's first-place finish in the Iowa Straw Poll. Almost three out of 10, 29 percent, of those surveyed supported Perry, 18 percent former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and 13 percent Bachmann, R-Minn.