Zogby Poll: Cain Takes Lead over Romney

NewsMax ^ | 5/23/11

[Kartographer]

Herman Cain leads presumed frontrunner Mitt Romney as the top choice of Republican primary voters in the race for the 2012 Presidential nomination. Among all voters, no one in a list of 13 possible GOP candidates leads President Barack Obama.

[MAKOTHEDOG]

Nice!!

[ScottinSacto]

"The poll includes a day and a half of results after the Chris Wallace interview too. That’s important in all of this."

That is good news. It was not his best moments, but flubs are going to happen. And his baseline was that it was Israel's decision on Palestinian Right of Return. That is much better than not knowing jack and telling Israel how it should be. This gotcha journalism of random trivia pursuit questions is never applied to the Dems. The hellstorm Palin will face again if running for the top job this time will be hard to watch.

[mylife]

Look at that idiot Obama out there today, kissing baby’s and calling himself Irish, getting his car stuck and prancing about while he burns the world down.

Cain looks fantastic in comparison.

[Maceman]

I thought he hit that right of return question out of the park tonite on Hannity. I loved the way he handled himself.

He is absolutely electable.

[truthfreedom]

I think with Daniels, they tried, he didn’t catch on, he’s out. Giuliani is in the post recent CNN poll of New Hampshire. Why? He hasn’t said no. Just trotting names out there of Rinos the MSM likes.

[Mr. Mojo]

If Cain starts winning primaries, I suspect Kraut and his fellow establishment stiffs won’t be the least bit entertained by it.

[ScreamingFist]

For those that have not seen the full Herman Cain presidential announcement speech....

hussein is shivering in his boots.....a REAL American has stepped up to the plate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0ZCzF0qd4

[ScreamingFist]

For those that have not seen the full Herman Cain presidential announcement speech....

hussein is shivering in his boots.....a REAL American has stepped up to the plate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0ZCzF0qd4

[mylife]

"Cain is unelectable, He fouled up the Pally question with Wallace. All I did was start an international incident and get my *** reamed on national television. Now I am drinking beer and tellin lies down at the pub. Did I address that Irish financial crisis? Hell Naw! It's partytime!"

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well that will enrage the GOP elites. Rove and Kraut will be in full smear mode by tomorrow night.

[truthfreedom]

Cain has top notch Elite Establishment Credentials. The Fed doesn’t just appoint you Chairman of the Kansas City Fed without their approval. There are plenty of Republicans who look at things like resumes to make their decision, and “2 thumbs up” from the Fed is a very reassuring elite credential.
Cain has the elite resume, and most certainly can compete with Romney for the establishment Republican vote.

Cain is also targeting the Conservative vote with his language, but he has the resume that mainstream establishment Republicans can appreciate. The mainstream Republicans are having problems finding candidates who have appeal.

[Kartographer]

Glad to see you showed up I was worried about you. Thought maybe the Viking Kitties had got you.

[MacMattico]

But Herman Cain can’t run! He’s black and the Republican nominee, though not yet chosen, is definitely a racist!

Has he been called an Uncle Tom yet? Or does that only happen when you reach a certain percentage in the polls?

[Kartographer]

Cain doesn’t have to worry half as much about the leftist as he does some of his fellow conservatives!

[repub4ever1]

Not formally in.

[Waryone]

Baloney. The elites will do all they can to ignore him. They want Romney or Pawlenty, or Huntsman or any of the other liberals they can find to trot out. Cain is conservative. Cain is TEA Party. I don’t know any elites who will have anything to do with conservative TEA Party people.

As for targeting with his language, he has had a radio program for years. His language did not change when he decided to run for office. He has been hammering Obama and talking about conservative methods of solving problems for years. Rush Limbaugh says Cain sounds just like him. That didn’t just happen overnight. He’s been conservative. That puts him light years ahead of anyone who has currently announced their intention to run.

Unlike those who really are establishment clowns, Herman Cain is a conservative and has been for some time. I have no idea why you’ve decided to attack him with this specious argument, but I do suspect some ulterior motive. Stop drinking the Ron Paul bong water, stop trying to cloud the issue, stop trumping up ridiculous reasons to dismiss him, and give Herman Cain a chance to show the world who he really is.

When we decide to eliminate for the silliest reasons those who really do think like us, we should not be surprised when we end up with nothing but RINOs.

[excopconservative]

Cain is getting support from people who want a male candidate who can be critical of Obama without fear that he and his supporters will be called racists. I can understand this because we are tired of being called racists whenever we oppose Obama.

Does this mean that our candidate will have to be black or a female? Probably because our other men seem to want to be friendly and sing Kumbaya and differ with Obama on the details while agreeing to the agenda.

Unfortunately, if by some chance, Herman Cain gets the nomination, he will be demonized with racial slurs by black democrats. White voters will be fed the propaganda that voting for Cain is somehow voting against black people.

Cain’s chances are somewhere between nil and none. People will not gamble a Presidential election on someone who has never been elected to any office. If he hasn’t played in the minors and won, how can we trust he’ll perform in the major leagues?

[VictoryGal]

> Well that will enrage the GOP elites. Rove and Kraut will be in full smear mode by tomorrow night.

True that they are as mad — and boy is it sweet :-)

They can’t crank up their smear machie without having a bland RINO to back, though. And RomneyCare Mitt is a non-starter.

[re_nortex]

Unlike those who really are establishment clowns, Herman Cain is a conservative and has been for some time.

There are some who try to twist Herman Cain into an apologist for affirmative action (an invention which is contrary to Constitutional Conservatism). As far back as 2004, Mr. Cain put that to rest. Like you, I think he's the real deal and is now and has long been true to Conservative principles, both fiscally and socially.

Furthermore, his accomplishments in both business and in academics put him far above the smooth-talking professional politicians. I'll admit to only recently becoming aware of Herman Cain (thanks largely to FR) but what I've seen and heard so far has been impressive.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Considering that he’s fumbled two foreign policy questions in the past few weeks, these results are a sad indication of lack of seriousness in the GOP voters.

I disagree. GOP voters and, more particularly, Tea Party members are perfectly aware of what the important issues are right now and the Palestinian "right of return" isn't close to being one of them. We have a political class comprised mostly of people who've never worked in private industry, never had to meet a payroll, never created a single job. These dilettantes understand neither basic economics nor human nature and they are driving this nation into financial ruin.

A man who has built and revived businesses and understands economic reality is a man we need in the White House - whether Cain is that man remains to be seen, but I already like him more than the likes of Romney, who is the epitome of the mindset that has gotten us into the catastrophe we now face.