Posted on 05/18/2011 1:41:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What a difference a debate makes.
Businessman Herman Cain is the big winner in the latest Daily Caller/ConservativeHome presidential primary tracking poll, surging forward to become a top contender, despite generally being considered an underdog.
This month’s tracking poll asked only three questions: “Who would be your top pick for president?”; “Who would be your second choice for president?”; and “Who do you think is the most electable in 2012?”
Cain, the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, is usually talked about as something of a fringe candidate: likeable, but with little chance at actually winning the nomination. But in the first GOP primary debate earlier this month in Greenville, S.C., Cain performed very well, and a focus group conducted by Frank Luntz declared him the winner. His debate performance seems to have helped him immensely.
Cain jumped to the top of the pack in terms of electability, taking 13 percent of the vote in the tracking poll, compared to the mere 3 percent he got last time. That puts him right behind New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – ever the favorite, even though he says he won’t run — who attracted 19 percent of the vote and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who gets 17 percent, a slight drop from the last poll.
Cain beats Romney as respondents’ top pick for president – netting 15 percent of the vote, an increase of 10 percentage points from the last poll. As a second choice, he ties Christie for the largest percentage of the vote – 11 percent – just ahead of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, and a significant increase from the 5 percent he got in the last poll.
If Cain is the big winner, then Donald Trump (who had not yet announced that he would not run when the poll was conducted), is the big loser. His numbers dropped precipitously since the last poll, suggesting that he made a wise choice to drop out of the race. For instance, in this poll, just 6 percent of respondents said he was the most electable; in the last poll, 15 percent said that of him.
Since the previous poll was conducted, Trump lost a major plank of his would-be campaign platform when President Barack Obama released his long form birth certificate. He seems to have been unable to recover.
Newt Gingrich, who officially announced his candidacy for president last Monday, also saw a small bump in his numbers, gaining three to five percentage point across the board. Tim Pawlenty saw a similar bump after announcing his exploratory committee, suggesting that making ones intentions official provides at least a temporary boost.
This poll is based on an online survey conducted between May 12 and May 14. The sample size was 871 voters, drawn from a panel of 2,500 people identified as conservative Republicans and likely primary voters. The majority of the panel is politically active, with 70 percent having contributed money to a campaign or worked on a campaign. Thirty-five percent of the members on the panel self-identify as part of the Tea Party, while 58 percent say they sympathize with the movement.
The polling language was written before Haley Barbour, Mike Huckabee, and Trump announced that they would not run, and all are still present on the ballot for this survey. They will be removed in the next poll.
Go Herman! Kick the Decadent out and save our country!
Ping for your list!
It surprises me how many of the GOP “insiders” and conservative talk show hosts aren’t even talking about Herman Cain!
I say GO HERMAN!
The Cain Train’s a-rollin!
Yes it is!
RE: It surprises me how many of the GOP “insiders” and conservative talk show hosts aren’t even talking about Herman Cain!
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Well, Rush Limbaugh, remarked on his radio show after the South Carolina debates :
“Herman Cain made me think I was listening to me in every answer.”
I like Herman Cain and I suspect the ObamaBots from the John Stewart Angry Homsexual Wing of the Democrat party is worried also. He would create fits for Obama.
Cain/West.....would make the Lib/Dem/Commie’s heads explode!
Herman Cain has the INTEGRITY needed to LEAD.
I understand he thinks the Fed is just swell.
I wish someone would question him about this.
I'm just sayin'...
Yes, I heard Rush’s comment on Herman Cain after the debate in SC............but that was about the LAST I heard from Rush on Herman Cain....today he was on to Perry in TX and talked about the rest of the GOP candidates but not a word on Herman Cain....at least I didn’t hear Herman’s name mentioned.
In early 2011, Cain stated on his radio show that there was no need for an audit of the Federal Reserve (Cain objected to auditng the Federal Reserve in 2010 while hosting the Neil Boortz show)
Cain clarified his remark later, however, that while such an audit is not a high priority for him, neither does he object to it.
See here :
http://rightwingnews.com/teleconferences/a-teleconference-with-herman-cain/
and here :
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/7691-herman-cain-flip-flops-on-federal-reserve-audit
Too often it works and the media/pundits help create or destroy campaigns. I have seen it all too many times, at the expense of good candidates.
It is early in the campaign season, where polls fluctuate wildly depending who makes news that polling cycle.
Will this election finally break the stranglehold of media/pundit mind-games over the electorate? I suspect we'll see the same pathetic results, but one can still hope.
Also, related to the Fed, Herman Cain announced his support of the gold standard on a radio program in late 2010:
“Yes I believe in the gold standard. We should have never gotten off the gold standard because when we got off the gold standard, that then allowed Congress to inflate our currency whenever they overspent. Now look at the mess that we have...”
See here :
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/28/herman_cain_return_to_the_gold_standard.html
And Cain makes it look easy!
RE: Herman Cain has the INTEGRITY needed to LEAD.
What’s important is, unlike Obama, who was a Community Organizer, Cain has a record of TURNING AROUND failing businesses and making them profitable.
even with his Master’s Degree from a top Engineering School ( Purdue ), He never had a sense of entitlement at all and was willing to work his way to the top.
Herman Cain worked for Pillsbury’s restaurant division, and after completing a nine-month management training program where he donned a nametag, cleaned bathrooms, and flipped burgers, was assigned the task of leading a region of 450 low-performing Burger King outlets. He transformed that regional operation into the company’s best performing region in the course of three years.
Longing for yet more professional challenges, Herman Cain moved on to the ailing Godfather’s Pizza chain as President and CEO where he redirected the chain, preventing their financial demise. As a result of his leadership, the Godfather’s Pizza chain is enjoying continued success with hundreds of restaurants still in operation today. In these two instances, Herman Cain has been responsible for preventing the job loss of thousands of American workers. Mr. Cain was invited to join the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association and in 1994 was elected their Chairman. Subsequent to that term of service, the National Restaurant Association in 1996 retained Mr. Cain as fulltime President and CEO, where his professional skills and talents benefited thousands of small businesses and individual entrepreneurs.
As a result of his executive position with the Nation Restaurant Association in 1994, during a nationally televised town hall meeting with then-President Bill Clinton promoting his proposed health care overhaul, Mr. Cain had the opportunity to challenge the President as to the resultant impact on businesses if such an overhaul were passed. The President’s response to Mr. Cain was an attempt to reassure those present and the millions in the television audience that the proposal was sound and would not bring harm to American businesses or their employees. Undeterred in the face of immense political power and before the millions of viewers, Herman Cain stood his ground with the rebuttal, “Quite honestly Mr. President, your calculations are incorrect. In the competitive marketplace, it simply doesn’t work that way.”
See here :
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/who_is_herman_cain_and_why_sho.html
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