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Rick Perry’s wife, Anita, says husband won’t drop out despite low polls

By Shira Schoenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 19, 2011

Even as Texas Governor Rick Perry has dropped in the polls, his wife, Anita Perry, reassured voters today that he will not drop out of the race. Anita Perry told voters at a Seacoast Republican Women’s tea that an Air Force veteran who knows Rick Perry stopped her in a store while she was Christmas shopping and said, “Tell Rick not to drop out…. Don’t give up on middle America.” “I assured him we weren’t going to drop out,” she said.

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