Posted on 10/14/2011 6:57:26 PM PDT by neverdem
Herman Cain has the highest favorable rating of any Republican presidential candidate among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents polled by Gallup, according to a survey released today.
Cain's 77-percent favorable rating edges out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose favorable rating is 72 percent, says Gallup.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is third at 66 percent, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is fourth at 63 percent, former Sen. Rick Santorum is fifth at 62 percent, Rep. Michele Bachmann is sixth at 59 percent, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is seventh at 54 percent, and Rep. Ron Paul is eighth at 53 percent.
The survey was conducted between Sept. 26 and Oct. 9. The respondents were asked whether they had a strongly favorable, favorable, unfavorable, or strongly unfavorable view of each candidate. The percentages reported above were the combined responses of stongly favorable and favorable.
Herman Cain also had the lowest unfavorable rating--13 percent. Romney's unfavorable rating was 18 percent.
Cain's favorable rating has gone up slightly and Romney's has gone down slightly since the last time Gallup polled Republicans and Republican-leaning independents on how they viewed Republican candidates. In a survey conducted Aug. 22-Sept. 4, Cain had a favorable rating of 73 percent and Romney had a favorable rating of 71 percent.
In that Aug. 22-Sept. 4 poll, Perry was tied with Cain with a 73 percent favorable rating.
Ditto
Hey, its time that Cain is a keyword!
Who can we contact at freerepublic to get this done?
No they don't hate America, they just treat her like a cheap whore. Cain excluded.
Who did you support in 2008?
I think Bachmann and Santorum need to think seriously about dropping out. They just don’t have the numbers and are hurting Cain who is a Tea Party conservative and closest to their ideology. jmo
Thanks for that excellent link. Went right to mu Cain folder for future ammo.
Yep, so what does that tell us about whether Cain will continue to rise as those candidates drop out? Romney has peaked. Cain has yet to peak.
What will the liberal media do when they see this happening?
Y’know what, I look at peoples’ records, I look at what they’ve done, and then I decide what I think about them. I look at Romney’s record - his record as governor, not as a hedge-fund manager - and I see ugliness everywhere, I see actions that are consistently liberal and anti-American. In this, I see no difference between Romney and Bloomberg (NYC mayor): both had years and years of experience in private business, both got wealthy that way, both call themselves republicans, and when both assumed political office, both stopped being republicans and started acting like hard-left liberals. Bloomberg’s business experience - which is arguably better than Romney’s because Bloomberg is a lot wealthier - hasn’t had any effect whatsoever on how he runs New York City; in fact, given the City’s budgets have been running consistently over inflation, in particular where it comes to hiring more and more union parasites, Bloomberg’s business experience has simply been chucked out the window.
There is only one rational conclusion to draw from that: if a politician when in office acts like a liberal, and fails to apply any of his business experience to informing his political policies, then his business experience is irrelevant. Mitt Romney - on his record - acted like a liberal when he was governor of Massachusetts; he was as anti-business as any of his predecessors - he didn’t lift a finger to try to change the anti-business laws in Massachusetts, he utterly failed to apply even Business 101 principles to the matter of trying to control health care costs in Massachusetts and instead simply leapt to the radical - and radically liberal - conclusion that every resident of Massachusetts should be forced, on pain of penalties and/or prison, to buy health insurance, he didn’t work to try and reduce the tax burden on businesses, he ramped up enforcement of all of the pre-existing, liberal, taxes on businesses, etc, etc, etc.... Romney’s business experience is therefore utterly irrelevant to how he will act if he becomes President.
When I look at Romney’s record as governor I see the man who invented the individual mandate - the law requiring every individual to buy insurance at the risk of being fined or tossed in jail. I see the man who created an ungodly mess in Massachusett’s health care system - a mess so bad the current governor is trying to impose price controls - and who still refuses to admit that there’s even a single problem with his abortion of a baby, Romneycare. I see the man who lied through his teeth about not increasing taxes and instead just called his tax increases “fees.” I see the man who one year ago was calling Social Security tantamount to a criminal enterprise, and is now defending it from similar remarks because he wants to bull$h&t seniors to buy their votes.
I see precious little difference between how Obama has acted and how Romney acted when he was governor; the actions of both are those of liberals, not of conservatives, or even of ordinary Americans.
If you want to call those the actions of a man who loves his country, so be it; I don’t. A man’s record speaks for itself, and Romney’s record - as opposed to the bull$h!t he’s peddling now in his glib “debate” answers - does not speak kindly to the love for America that you have willy-nilly ascribed to him.
Funny thing, last time around, in 2008, Americans fell in love with the sweet nothings Obama spoke and ignored his record which, scant though it was, plainly indicated that he would be a hard-left liberal, and look where that got us. Now it’s conservatives who are falling in love with the sweet nothings of Mitt Romney and are ignoring his rather detailed record which plainly indicates that he governs as a liberal; why would any rational person think the results are going to be materially different this time around?
You want empty wind and claims of omniscience? Go find a mirror.
Thank you. Glad to know that as it does matter to me. Have concluded that Newt and Cain are the best candidates but I am going to find out everything I can before I get hit with any surprises.
LOL. Okay, drama queen. You win the rhetoric contest. ‘course, all of your assertions about conservatives being in love w/Romney are wrong, but you keep repeating that until you believe it is true.
When you want to talk facts, and reality, some around here will be happy to engage.
You may be right. I have a friend who has NEVER given to a political campaign. She just sent her first political donation ever....to Cain.
Really ? I think Romney is actually moving to the right. He needs a stronger challenge from Huntsman on the conservative side to pick up those moderate Republican voters and get him back towards the center.
Personally I would rather die a quick death than die bye a thousands cuts, Im sick of holding my nose.
Domo Arigato!
I’m not voting for Romney.
I’m not voting for Perry.
Ditto. In the primary.
Yes we Cain!
How on earth would “going third party” help our country? You would just be helping BO get re-elected.
I have not checked the dates, but when Herman Cain was talking about the Fed, who was the chairman? Was it Greenspan? The Fed under Bernanke is doing all these secret Trillion dollar bailouts. During Greenspan’s time, there was nothing like current banking crisis.
When a out of context information is posted, one loses credibility.
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