among those middle income groups, but when you come right down to all of it, rick perry is now the frontrunner, heading into a month full of debates, expectations going to be very, very high for him as he measures up against the rest of the government p. bill: i think that s a great point. now, what do you see in play with a romney matchup, because barack obama has 43 percent in your survey and mitt romney is at 39 percent. you know, again, it s four points in the other direction that romney also is doing better than but romney is doing better than he was a week or so ago. this says more about the matchup between romney and perry than anything else. if mitt romney wins the nomination, if he comes back after if he comes back his numbers will improve against the president and perry s will decline, but for right now, mitt romney not getting quite as much support, especially from republicans, compared to rick perry. bill: these are interesting observations the one more point here o