Poll: Perry support plummeting in Texas

{mosads}Mitt Romney leads in Texas at 24 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich at 23 percent. Perry takes 18 percent, with Rick Santorum at 15 percent and Ron Paul at 12 percent.

In the same poll taken in September, Perry led the field in Texas at 49 percent, while Romney languished at 10 percent.

Now in a head-to-head match-up against Romney in the Lone Star State, Perry would lose 46 percent to 45 percent. Perry would have won the same match-up in September 72 percent to 18 percent.

A plurality of Texas Republicans, 39 percent, said Perry’s campaign has damaged Texas’s image, while only 13 percent said it had improved the state’s image.

Perry stayed in the primary race despite getting drubbed in New Hampshire with the hope that his brand of conservatism would resonate with voters in South Carolina.

According to a Monmouth University poll released on Tuesday, Perry is in last place at 6 percent, trailing front-runner Romney by 27 percent.