Have you ever taken the time to listen to Cain? His surge in the polls, is a direct result of those who recently have.
If name recognition was driving this poll, Palin would be first, Gingrich 2nd, Romney 3rd.
Recent successes, perhaps a bit of “flavor of the month”, seem to be driving that particular poll.
Cain is doing well despite being mostly unknown, high name recognition is not driving Cains high poll numbers, something else is.