Posted on 10/13/2011 6:53:22 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
What a difference a few debates can make.
Herman Cain's star has risen steadily in the past two months, from a largely unknown CEO running for president to a top-tier candidate in the Republican field for 2012 -- and now voters even rank him above the presumed front-runner, Mitt Romney, in a poll released Wednesday evening.
As GOP voters grow disenchanted with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and remain wary of Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, Cain, a onetime radio-show host and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, catapulted into the lead in the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Drawn by Cain's blunt, folksy style in recent debates, 27 percent of Republican primary voters picked him as their first choice for the nomination, a jump of 22 percentage points from six weeks ago.
Romney held firm in second place at 23 percent, his same share as in a Journal poll in late August, while Perry plummeted to 16 percent, from 38 percent in August.
The poll of 1,000 adults, conducted from Oct. 6-10, comes as many Republican donors and officials have begun to rally around Romney as the party's likely nominee, despite a continued lack of enthusiasm for him documented in the new poll.
On Wednesday, with five of the Republican presidential candidates addressing members of the New Hampshire state legislature in the state capitol, Herman Cain fired up the crowd. His fiery speech drew several standing ovations in defending his "9-9-9 plan," which would replace the tax code with flat 9 percent taxes on businesses, personal incomes and sales across the nation.
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You always get the most flak when you are directly over the target...............
They already have, and he keeps on rising. Go Cain !
How can this be? O’reilly, Krauthammer, Medved et al told me that Romney’s the prohibitive favorite and Cain has no chance.
We usually talk about the liberal MSM, but i’m beginning to see that the conservative media is becoming mainstream and works off templates and narratives rather than reality.
“Suit up Mr Cain, the GOP Party Establishment is going to be gunning for you fast and furious now”
Yep. Earlier posts have mittens endorsements and monies rolling in since Tuesday. Methinks the “establishment” might be runnin’ scared.
When the lower tier candidates bow out, their support will transfer to Cain, not Romney. We can beat Mitt and Cain can beat Obama.
It’s pretty easy to tell that Romney, like Obama, is one of them, and that Cain is a very successful version of one of us.
27 percent of Republican primary voters picked him as their first choice for the nomination, a jump of 22 percentage points from six weeks ago.
while Perry plummeted to 16 percent, from 38 percent in August.
Hmmmm......Cain jumps 22 points.
Perry.....38 - 16 = 22
Coincedence? I think not. As more people got to know the governor, they did not like him. It’s the opposite with Cain. I do wonder however.....where is that former Palin support? Is it possible that most are keeping their powder dry, waiting to see who she endorses?
At this point if she should endorse Cain you might as well hand him the nomination now.
Now that Palin is out, Cain has my 100% support.
My major question is:
Why so much negativity toward Cain on FR???
I do not agree with everything he says but of all the candidates he is the most conservative.
It seems to me, just anecdotally, that this may have been the case for a lot of the previously “undecideds”.
The other thing is people find change scary. Cain is a candidate pushing for fundamental change in how our Govt works.
For some people, they would rather live in denial that our country is in grave danger then face the scary possibility of things changing. When they are forced out of denial to face their fears, they tend to hate the one pushing them out for robbing them of their denial.
Finally that is common among GOP Establishments types. It is "their" party. They hate anyone new coming in telling them how to run "their" party. I have been in the GOP 30 years and there is a certain segment that thinks they own the party because they been in it since Goldwater ran for President in 1964.
Add me to the ranks of former Palin supporters who have moved over to Cain. I think a lot more are coming.
Where do you think the Cain surge came from--Palin people--and it's going to grow IMO...
Palin needs to come out and endorse Cain and get her fundraising apparatus behind him.
It’s pretty obvious that her supporters went to Cain after her non-candidacy announcement.
Same for me.
Palin has said that if she were to endorse a candidate prior to the nomination, that it would hinge mostly upon how this candidate approached the energy issue.
This is why I think Rick Perry couldn't answer any question during the last debate, without inserting a plug for his energy plan.
The extreme volatility in this race indicates pretty clearly that the base isn’t very happy with any of the non-Mitt options.
You know, not much is known about Cain. He would make an ideal stalking horse for Mitt if there is some tidbit out there that will take Cain out when disclosed.
Cain bumps off all the “conservative” alternative then Mitt swoops in when the Cain campaign collapses.
And unless this division is met with some reasonable degree of compromise in the next few months, Barack Obama will get his worthless hide re-elected.
But note: If he can prevail over poverty, racial discrimination, cancer, the corporate world, and everything else--and he has!--he can prevail over anything. That's part of his message.
Really like Cain but not sold yet. Being from Atlanta area and listing to Cain almost every night on the radio I feel I know him best. Also Newt was my Congressmen so I know him well also. I'm in the undecided right, watching Santorum and Bachmann
I mainly a NOT Romney right now, but not sure who I'm really for. My ranking if I had to vote today:
1. Cain
2. Newt
3. Bachmann
4. Santorum
5. Parry
6. Romney
You are probably right. As of now the right way to look at Romney's numbers is .. he is not the first choice of 77% of primary voters. 77% of primary voters do not want him to be their president. So everything you hear about Romney being the front runner and the clear favorite is complete BS. What Romney has that others don't, thanks to his years in the finance world, is a network of monied donors. But if Cain can hold on, like you said, I think a lot of the non Romney supporters will coalesce around him.
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