Ignoring him will not make Cain go away LA Slimes
Palin
the la times could go broke.
CAIN will be your worst nightmare. How could they go against an authentic black American without being called racist. Shoe is about to be put on the other foot. Im for CAIN!
This wide-open race meme is for fools and rookies. In this situation, predictions are easy. Neither party has done anything off the wall with it's nomination since Wendell Wilke. By this stage in the process it is almost always possible to pick the ultimate winner of any “open” race with a high degree of certainty.
The only genuine, down to the wire race we've seen in the modern era was Clinton v. Obama in ‘08. Reagan v. Ford in ‘76 came close, but it was pretty clear even after Regan started winning primaries that he didn't quite have the firepower to knock off an incumbent President. Dukakis/Hart might have been an epic battle in ‘88 if Gary Hart hadn't imploded as a result of Donna Rice and “Monkey Business.”
But even where it's been close, a long list of candidates was easily winnowed down at the outset to two serious contenders in every case. Most of the time there's only one and the race isn't even close.
Jimmy Carter, for example, surprised many people in ‘76 but only because they failed to notice that he was running for the Democrat nomination unopposed. There were a lot of other candidates but they were all nonstarters. Birch Bayh never put together a serious campaign due to health issues (his own and his wife's). Lloyd Bentsen and Terry Sanford never tried to put together a national campaign. Fred Harris was a nobody. Mo Udall was a Congressman. Sargent Shriver had never held elective office (and had been McGovern's compainion in electoral disaster). Scoop Jackson was ideologically disqualified as a believer in a strong national defense. The term-limited Governor of a major state who started early and built a national campaign organization was destined to win and everyone with a shred of sense knew it even before the primary season started when Carter was at 4 per cent in the polls.
Once again there's a nomination fight with a lot of candidates. Once again, nearly all of them are nonstarters. They either lack the requisite stature (the Cain train just doesn't have enough track) or they lack the requisite ideology (the GOP is not going to nominate the father of Rombamaneycare). Only Perry has a shot and when only one guy has a shot, he's the guy who scores.
This isn't rocket science.
One name is conspicuous by its absence in the article.
Actually more than one name. I didn’t see Sanatorum, Paul nor Cain.