Reply #52: You'd never know he recently hired a PR firm, huh?

[rainbow4321]

Specifically, the PR firm TargetPoint...to help him find "value voters". The same one shrub used in 2004.
Sounds like the PR firm can't cure stupidity.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/061505dntexperry.d7de1b7.html


Gov. Rick Perry's political campaign has hired a Virginia-based firm that helped President Bush identify and target Christian "values voters" instrumental to his re-election last year.

The hiring of TargetPoint Consulting underscores the Perry camp's hope that expanded support among religious conservatives will blunt a potential challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Matthew Dowd, a Bush campaign pollster and strategist, said TargetPoint was part of an ambitious effort in 2004 to build a massive list of likely Bush voters. Key to the strategy was increasing turnout among Mr. Bush's political base of religious conservatives.

Perry pollster Mike Baselice, who has conducted extensive surveys of the Texas electorate, said that about 500,000 GOP primary voters attend church more than once a week. But he said an additional 1 million regular churchgoing Republicans don't vote in primaries.