The Republicans: Prime-time Perry

In the four weeks since Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, declared he was running for president, he has already become the front-runner for the Republican nomination. The latest polls all show him leading Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts and his closest rival—one by as much as 19 percentage points. Whether his giddy ascent will last has been hard to say, in part because his opponents had not had a chance to assail him directly until this week’s debate, the first Mr Perry has participated in.

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