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If you think he is incapable, you haven’t read his resume.
If you think he can’t inspire, you haven’t listened to him speak. If you think he can’t win, you’re not looking at the polls. If you think money is an issue - Cain won the Florida straw poll spending $2500 to Perry’s $2 million. If you think the odds are too great, well he has made a lifetime of beating odds, from turning around bankrupt businesses to beating cancer.

Your argument that people won’t ever elect him because he is a non politician might have meant something a year ago, but most people at this point have decided that is a positive considering where career politicians are getting us.

And people are getting behind him. His campaign has been slow and steady and has only increased. So far he doesn’t have the surge and fall back of other candidates. It isn’t a fluke he has had the highest positive intensity on Gallup for 15 out of 18 weeks, and this week, the highest of any GOP candidate ever.

AND he can beat Obama. He would wipe the floor with him in a debate.

Who is in detail

It's always going to be different this time. Every cycle something is going to revolutionize politics — the youth vote, the Internet, the Tea Party, whatever. And yet politics changes very little as the decades roll by. No beginner has ever had a shot at a presidential nomination and Herman Cain isn't going to be the first.

Your tribute to Cain is touching but grossly overblown and ultimately beside the point. Cain hasn't got a serious campaign organization. He could be a political genius (he isn't) and he would still have no shot at the nomination. That's reality and we all have to deal with it.