I like Cain, but he simply has not been vetted. Also the MSM pollsters are pushing him just as they pushed all the others for a time. They are only messing with us, trying to pick our candidate.
Truth of the matter is we really no very little about the man.. Google searches does not vet anybody.
Why has he raised such little money?
If the polls are really true, then why is he not rolling in cash?
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‘Same reason Bachmann had no cash to speak of, her support was not real
Cain has been vetted by those of us here in Georgia.The elites are scared of him and that tells us what we need to know.
Ah, but perhaps those that are truly REAL are supported by those without that much cash. And those that are supported by the biggest machines....
“I like Cain, but he simply has not been vetted.”
Define ‘vetted’.
The man has had a public talk show that put it all on the line for five straight years. Anything you could possibly want to know about him is out there for you to see/hear. Nobody is more of an open book.
What more do you want? What would make him properly ‘vetted’ in you eyes? (I know it sounds like I’m being sarcastic and snappish, but it’s a genuine question.)
“Also the MSM pollsters are pushing him just as they pushed all the others for a time. They are only messing with us, trying to pick our candidate.”
From what you wrote, it looks to me that anyone who’s ahead in the polls are being pushed onto us by the MSM. Am I reading that wrong?
The fact is, the MSM hates Cain.
“Why has he raised such little money?”
People only back potential winners. Until he took the Florida Straw poll, he was liked, but ‘couldn’t win’. As soon as had some advantage, people jumped all over him.
The presidential campaign funds are only counted every quarter (3 months). In the last *week* of the third quarter (right after the straw poll) he took in what he’d taken in for the entire second quarter. ($2.5 million dollars)
I’m sure that it’s more now. He’s only begun to surge. We won’t know until the fourth quarter funds are counted and submitted.
I have heard that he is running a VERY lean campaign. Someone mentioned his book tour (which Karl rove just couldn’t understand ) was on the publishers dime.
By some miracle, against all the talking heads advice he is still surging.
He has been doing a national campaign.
How is he UP in Iowa, south Carolina and Florida?
He is running HIS campaign. He is a bright man and just like he would govern, he is not following past models of campaigning.
With that said, we do need to send him money. Most of us supporting him are of the 53% who pay the taxes hence are the ones who have little left after payday. Please send him something. 5 or 10 dollars when you can
His speech today in Memphis. Please give him your attention; many of us are. Could it be he is the natural Tea Party candidate? I have a strong suspicion that the answer is yes.
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-cain-bartlett,0,6371777.story
Agreeing with your post...additionally some of these polls might speak to just 300 people or so. That’s hardly a majority of anything significant. So polls really are just a springboard for the media to push what their flavorof the month is for the moment.
The media always turn against any candidate other then their own Romney. It often appears Cain is the buffer for Romney.