[nathanbedford]

Drudge has put the results of the Rasmussen poll up and I think the take away should be not to concentrate on Herman Cain but to look at the trajectory as one sees the sequence of polls beginning on June 24 when Obama was beating Gingrich 48% to 30% right on through to this last poll which he dates at in which Obama finds his margin reduced to 39% 34% over Cain.

My take is that one could substitute virtually any Republican wannabe's name in these last few polls and one would obtain substantially the same results because Obama is crashing and whoever Rasmussen puts up against him last is the greatest beneficiary.

It is my hypothesis that the less we have the fear on the issue of electability the wider our scope to nominate a hard conservative. I take this as bad news for Romney, good news for Cain, of course, but also good news for Rick Santorum, Bachmann, and, yes, Newt Gingrich.

[SueRae]

That’s what I got.

0bama is only 39% against Cain and the only one under 40%). He polls better by at least 6% points against any other candidate.

And it’s early. :-)

[RockinRight]

IT means basically this:

Obama is getting 39% no matter what. Since over 25% didn’t commit to either Obama or Cain, those voters are Cain’s for the grabbing...it’s a name recognition thing more than anything.

Considering the name recognition issue, if Cain’s only 5 pts behind Obama NOW...HE CAN BEAT HIM.

[so_real]

You and I are on the same page, FRiend. And I've been sharing that book with all my FRiends and friends. For the first time in many of our lives, there is absolutely no reason for us to feel like we have to settle for "electability's" sake. Obama and his administration have done such an incredible job of destroying their own credibility that any "insert-name-here" generic republican will mop the floor with him. We don't have to settle and if we're serious about turning the country around, we won't. This is it. This is the election. "Conservative or Bust"

[arrogantsob]

“...but also good news for Rick Santorum, Bachmann, and, yes, Newt Gingrich...” Neither of these have the slightest chance to win the nomination. Nor does Cain.