Herman Cain Wins First Tea Party Straw Poll

Main Street Radical ^ | 2/28/2011 | James Devere

[mainstreetradical.com]

Here is a story that may not make the headlines, as it is so outside of the Mainstream Media’s misrepresentation of the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party held a straw poll vote for the 2012 presidential election this weekend. The winner, with 22% of the 1600 votes cast, was Herman Cain. Though he has not officially declared as a candidate, the strong showing with the Tea Party will help to boost Cain’s already fast-rising star among the fiscally conservative voters of the Tea Party. Minnesota Govenor Tim Pawlenty came in second with 16% of the vote.

At some point, the media should be embarrassed as they continue to push the mythical claims of racism that have plagued the Tea Party. Mouthpieces from Joy Behar and Janeane Garofalo, to former president Carter and just about anyone with a show on MSNBC, have made claims that the problem that Tea Partiers have with the government is that a black man is in charge. The results of this straw poll are so counter to that argument that some degree of professional credibility should creep into the consciousness of these reports and pundits, though that may be asking too much from the liberal crowd.

As for Herman Cain, we do have a candidate who is able to run on a record of creating jobs, of running some very succesful operations and a man who brings a fresh set of credentials to Washington without having an entire career of political favors for which to account. Here is a man who can make hard choices and stands, as I wish every politician did, on his record. We still have a lot of time before primaries heat up, but the field is begining to offer some new blood in the party rather than recycling the John McCains and Mitt Romneys of the world.

[MinuteGal]

Now that you've graciously provided all the information about the poll, I will graciously say I never would have posted in the first place if the who, what, why, when and where had been in the blog story.

Now that I know that Herman Cain was NOT endorsed for president by the Tea Party movement as a whole as the article implies, but solely by the folks at the Phoenix national policy meeting after they heard him speak...I'm at peace.

As to my reference to the five W's, I feel that conservative blog journalism should have higher standards than the norm for clarity when reporting.

Leni

[mainstreetradical.com]

Leni,
You’re point is taken. Sometimes in an effort to get the word out we do not employ the editorial checksums that should be applied.

The article was not meant to mislead in any way, we will make a greater effort in the future to display the facts clearly and earlier in the article.

[altura]

You are mistaken. Anybody who’s nominated will quickly find him or herself weighed down with more baggage than Michelle takes to Italy.

Once again, we are in danger of letting the media and leftists pick our candidate.

There was an lefty column this morning bemoaning that the best candidate probably wouldn’t run. Who was this? Mitch Daniels—nice guy—wrong on several issues and couldn’t get anybody excited if he was reporting on an alien invasion.

Forget baggage. Pick the one who can win and who has our values.

[MinuteGal]

No ill motives imputed. My critique was purely journalistic. I appreciate your leadership in the conservative cause.

BTW, who's Herman Cain? Did he write a best-seller about a mutiny or sumpin'?

Leni