Rick Perry is comfortably leading the GOP primary for governor but doesn't quite have a majority, according to a new poll from Rasmussen Reports.

The new survey has Perry at 48 percent, Kay Bailey Hutchison at 27 percent, and Debra Medina at 16 percent, with 9 percent undecided.

Squint, and you'll see that that's probably outside of runoff range, provided Perry can get his portion of the undecideds (and that the poll has the snapshot right, and that nothing changes in the last week).

The same pollsters did another survey to see what the general election matchups might look like. Perry would beat Democrat Bill White, but only by six points (47 percent to 41 percent). Hutchison would beat White by nine points. Those margins have to make the Democrats feel better, but the playing field isn't level: Perry and Hutchison are slashing each other in ads, while nobody's going after White at the moment. You can't really get the measure of a head-to-head general election while the primary fights are getting unequal attention.