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Obama 44%, Cain 38%
The Weekly Standard ^ | October 25, 2011 | EFFREY H. ANDERSON

Posted on 10/25/2011 9:51:03 PM PDT by Steelfish

Obama 44%, Cain 38% OCT 25, 2011 • BY JEFFREY H. ANDERSON The latest Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows that, over the past week, the gap between President Obama and Herman Cain has swung 8 points in Obama’s favor.

In a poll released shortly before the last Republican presidential debate, Rasmussen showed Cain leading Obama by 2 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup (43 to 41 percent). This week’s poll, taken after that debate and after Cain’s abortion comments late last week, shows Obama now leading by 6 points (44 to 38 percent).

Among independents, Cain was ahead by 19 points last week (48 to 29 percent), but that gap has now vanished —

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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Probably just Barry’s “kill bump” from Gadhafi.”
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I have not seen any kill bump, and I still have not seen what Obumbo had to do with the Gadhafi killing.

Rass still has him -22 on “strongly approve”
and as low as ever on overall approval.


21 posted on 10/25/2011 10:34:03 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW

Obama is weak as water.


22 posted on 10/25/2011 10:35:36 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: AlexW

***** “ Rass still has him -22 on “strongly approve”
and as low as ever on overall approval. “ *****

That still scares me ... how can there be that many stupid people? Are they so blinded that even after 3 yrs they cannot see?

TT


23 posted on 10/25/2011 10:38:11 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
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To: Steelfish

that’s fine.. Ronald Reagan was 20 points behind Carter just weeks before the 1980 election


24 posted on 10/25/2011 10:39:58 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: TexasTransplant
Are they so blinded that even after 3 yrs they cannot see

Yup.

I firmly believe that the election night vote will be a lot closer than most of us are anticipating (also factor in voter fraud).

I think Cain will have the best shot overall vs. Obama. Cain's an outsider, he nullifies the race issue, etc.

Perry will get slaughtered as the redux of GW Bush, Romney for being a Mormon RINO.
25 posted on 10/25/2011 10:46:42 PM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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To: Hildy
I like Cain, but he cannot win.

Pretty much the way I see it. Good guy, no real chance to beat Hussein. Worse, as a complete political novice he is just way too likely to say stupid stuff and blow up his campaign after he's nominated.

People keep claiming it's all good because Reagan was behind. The problem is Cain is no Reagan. By 1980 Reagan was a disciplined, polished politician who already knew the ropes having already run a serious campaign once (and having been Governor of CA). Cain is too likely to spit up something dopey and implode.

26 posted on 10/25/2011 10:46:50 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Steelfish
Can ANYONE OF US IMAGINE TWO MONTHS AGO at 44% (FOREIGN-BORN COMMUNIST) to 38% (ALMOST UNKNOWN AMERICAN PATRIOT)? Look at the LONG TERM BIG PICTURE FOLKS.

Even with the State Controlled Liberal National Media arrayed against us?

This embodies true grassroots Tea Party-style progress and the glidepath upwards over the next months will tighten the race to a dead heat, then Cain will deliver an electrifying nomination speech pulling 10 points ahead, and economy that sucks and Obama tiring out the American people will keep Obama comfortably behind Cain until election day....


27 posted on 10/25/2011 10:53:48 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Mister Cain: a) IOWA upgrades, GOOD! b) Extend an offer to John Bolton to be your chief FP adviser)
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To: Steelfish
I think it has a lot to do with the Perry supporters who know Perry is only a stalking horse in the race to make Romney look good. Look at the debates where Perry intentionally looks so bad he makes Romney look good by comparison. This can't be an accident. Now that Cain has become a threat to Romney, the Perry supporters have used every lying, dirty trick in the book to turn people against Cain, again helping only Romney. The downright dishonesty of the attacks on Cain appear to be well coordinated with Perry supporters and the MSM. I don't believe it is a coincidence that Perry supporters pick up on attacks on Cain by the MSM within minutes of them being reported, dishonest editing and all.

It is an outright battle between conservatives backing Cain and Gingrich and the Romney coalition consisting of Romney, Perry, the MSM and the Republican establishment. It will be interesting to see whether honesty, decency and conservatism wins out or whether we will have a Romney Obama election where the entire Country loses.

28 posted on 10/25/2011 11:05:49 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: Longbow1969

No one can predict the future. There are different circumstances now just like there were at the midterms. I’d say a conservative can beat 0bama soundly. My preference is Cain but I’m happy to vote for anyone but Romney.

Cindie


29 posted on 10/25/2011 11:07:28 PM PDT by gardencatz (Proud mom US Marine! It can't always be someone else's son.)
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To: TexasTransplant

“That still scares me ... how can there be that many stupid people?”
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It is quite easy to see.
Look how long the Marxist have been in charge of public education and the MSM.
Add to that the massive growth of blacks and illegal immigrants that are bussed to the polls and told what to do.
Any rules and laws concerning voting are totally ignored now.
Voting has become a “civil right”, come one, come all.
Vote now and vote often. (in the same election)and with polls staffed by the likes of the SEIU, a vast Communist thug union.

Most all societies/nations have a rise and fall.
It is a fact that most of us true Americans never considered, but America is in a massive free-fall, and it is one of the reasons that I stay offshore, unlikely to return.


30 posted on 10/25/2011 11:08:20 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: Steelfish

Total BS....

And even if the numbers are not skewed, it still shows that Obama’s goose is cooked.

Cain’s name recognition is still hovering around 50%.

This poll means absolutely nothing.

Whoever wins the GOP nomination will be the next president.


31 posted on 10/25/2011 11:09:38 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: fireman15

lol...nice research on hildy!


32 posted on 10/25/2011 11:12:13 PM PDT by federal__reserve (Perry is a good man but his one on one debates with Obama keeps me awake at nights.)
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To: Steelfish
Wow,if the CLEAR REPUBLICAN FRONT RUNNER can't beat Obama all the rest of the GOP candidates REALLY don't stand a chance...

May as well give up;)

33 posted on 10/25/2011 11:12:17 PM PDT by Happy Rain ( "Many of the most useful idiots of the Left are on the Right.")
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To: Hildy

If cain can’t win, no one can.


34 posted on 10/25/2011 11:16:15 PM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Safrguns

Cain was just up +2 against Obama on last week’s Rasmussen poll. So yeah, I don’t think this poll necessarily means anything.


35 posted on 10/25/2011 11:17:18 PM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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To: TexasTransplant

The elephant in the room is economy. Election is over a year away. If economy roars back to life, Barry will unfortunately have a good chance. But there are no signs that unemployment (REAL, not gov’t figures) will get below 20% by Oct 2012. Europe is seriously heading into a recession. That is 1/3 of world’s GDP. Our FED has no bullets left, rates already near 0. Congress is highly unlikely to pass any more stimuli with borrowed money.

If you think our real-estate bubble was bad, Chinese bubble
is twice as inflated. No one knows when it will pop but it is a matter of not if, but when. Any one major economy getting in trouble will cascade down the line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E

So, if my prediction on economy holds true, any GOP_ nominee wins. I hope it is Cain, but I will be OK with most others except Paul & Romney.


36 posted on 10/25/2011 11:27:34 PM PDT by federal__reserve (Perry is a good man but his one on one debates with Obama keeps me awake at nights.)
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To: txhurl
Are Cain’s people still happy with the ‘fry the mexicans on the fence ‘til their eyes pop out’ position stance?

That's not Cain's position. Are you in the habit of lying?

37 posted on 10/25/2011 11:41:32 PM PDT by Isabel C.
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To: Isabel C.

Cain is doing none of us good by alienating hispanics.

If you can’t see that, you don’t know electoral politics.

Cain was for frying mexicans, then it was just a joke, then he was serious again about frying them, you just don’t say stuff like this if you want the hispanic vote.

Whoever wins the primary is guaranteed the ~48% that turned out for Sarah via McGone. But that wasn’t a good enough number, we needed the 53% number to beat zero, and we didn’t pull it out.

Whatever, I’m tired of giving Cain election advice.


38 posted on 10/25/2011 11:49:08 PM PDT by txhurl (Did you want to talk or fish? Or feed the fish?)
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To: Steelfish
Dead Muzzie bounce. Assad had better find a quiet villa to hole up in - Zero's gonna cap one Arab dictator a month for the next year if it's his only way of keeping the minds of the navel-gazing swing voters off of all the other domestic destruction he has wrought.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

39 posted on 10/26/2011 12:19:22 AM PDT by Viking2002 (Hippies smell.)
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To: txhurl

how do hispanics not differentiate between legal vs illegal ?


40 posted on 10/26/2011 12:31:42 AM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
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