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Gallup: At 77 Percent, Cain Leads Republican Field in Favorable Rating
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 12, 2011 | Terence P. Jeffrey

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2012; 999; cain; frontrunner; gallup; gingrich; goherman; hermanator; hermancain; momentum; newt; newtgingrich; steamroller; teaparties; teaparty; trueconservative
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To: doc1019

Ditto


81 posted on 10/15/2011 12:30:24 AM PDT by factmart
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To: neverdem

Hey, its time that Cain is a keyword!

Who can we contact at freerepublic to get this done?


82 posted on 10/15/2011 12:47:07 AM PDT by factmart
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To: Recovering_Democrat
"Hussein HATES America. The Republicans--ALL OF THEM--do NOT hate America."

No they don't hate America, they just treat her like a cheap whore. Cain excluded.

83 posted on 10/15/2011 1:44:51 AM PDT by semaj
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To: GLDNGUN

Who did you support in 2008?


84 posted on 10/15/2011 2:42:58 AM PDT by cmj328
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To: federal__reserve

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


85 posted on 10/15/2011 3:26:37 AM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: Politicalmom

Thanks for that excellent link. Went right to mu Cain folder for future ammo.


86 posted on 10/15/2011 3:38:58 AM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
"I can see Cain garnering the following groups: Bachmann, Santorum, potential Palin, Perry, Gingrich, some from Paul, and not a few of the OWS folks who are fed up with Solydra-type deals."

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?

87 posted on 10/15/2011 4:44:44 AM PDT by LZ_Bayonet ( I AM THE TEA PARTY LEADER !)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

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.


88 posted on 10/15/2011 5:33:07 AM PDT by Oceander (If Romney is the GOP nominee, then Obama wins in 2012, either directly or by proxy)
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To: Politicalmom

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.


89 posted on 10/15/2011 5:47:17 AM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: Oceander

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.


90 posted on 10/15/2011 7:00:10 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: AmericanInTokyo

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.


91 posted on 10/15/2011 7:03:38 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: stilloftyhenight

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.


92 posted on 10/15/2011 7:48:06 AM PDT by erlayman
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Personally I would rather die a quick death than die bye a thousands cuts, Im sick of holding my nose.


93 posted on 10/15/2011 8:11:34 AM PDT by saturn1964
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Domo Arigato!


94 posted on 10/15/2011 8:20:07 AM PDT by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’m not voting for Romney.
I’m not voting for Perry.


Ditto. In the primary.


95 posted on 10/15/2011 9:07:16 AM PDT by Grunthor (Isn't Herman Cain just Steven Urkel at 65?)
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To: lonevoice

Yes we Cain!


96 posted on 10/15/2011 9:39:41 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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97 posted on 10/15/2011 11:30:23 AM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball

How on earth would “going third party” help our country? You would just be helping BO get re-elected.


98 posted on 10/15/2011 11:38:36 AM PDT by Maryhere ("HE comes to rule the earth")
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To: stilloftyhenight

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.


99 posted on 10/15/2011 1:24:54 PM PDT by federal__reserve (Economy on life support needs a revolutionary tax plan, not fiddle around the edges!)
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To: Grumplestiltskin
Since I have dividend income, and my wife pays hefty payroll tax (total 15.3% of GROSS paycheck), and occasionally I score large capital gains in stock market, and my death tax will hurt my kids badly, and my top tax bracket drops from 35% to 9%, and the top corporate tax drops from 35% to 9% which has to help them be more competitive with foreign outfits thereby increasing job prospects for my kids, no...........I have no problem with 9% federal sales tax on NEW stuff only.
100 posted on 10/15/2011 1:30:57 PM PDT by federal__reserve (Economy on life support needs a revolutionary tax plan, not fiddle around the edges!)
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