Two new polls out today show Rick Perry maintaining a wide lead for now over the rest of the field. Results from Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll: Perry (38 percent), Mitt Romney (23 percent), Ron Paul (9 percent), Michele Bachmann (8 percent), Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain (5 percent), Rick Santorum (3 percent), and Jon Huntsman (2 percent.).
Results from Politico/George Washington University poll: Perry (36 percent), Romney (17 percent), Paul and Bachmann (10 percent), Gingrich and Santorum (5 percent), Cain (4 percent), and Huntsman (1 percent).