Posted on 10/16/2011 2:31:02 PM PDT by South40
A new poll of Florida Republicans found businessman Herman Cain leading the pack of GOP presidential candidates in Florida with the strong backing of supporters of the tea party movement. Florida Republicans who did not identify themselves as tea party supporters broke toward former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.
A poll unveiled by the American Research Group (ARG) on Thursday found Cain, who won the Presidency 5 straw poll last month in Orlando, now led in Florida among likely primary voters with 34 percent followed by Romney, who placed second in the 2008 Florida presidential primary, with 28 percent. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich placed third with 11 percent.
The rest of the field lagged behind in single digits. Despite finishing second in the Presidency 5 straw poll, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas took fourth with 5 percent.
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Nice. 34 percent! That’s a solid lead.
Ping for the Cain Train Pinglist!
FReep Me if you want to be added!
A poll unveiled by the American Research Group (ARG) on Thursday found Cain, who won the Presidency 5 straw poll last month in Orlando, now led in Florida among likely primary voters with 34 percent followed by Romney, who placed second in the 2008 Florida presidential primary, with 28 percent. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich placed third with 11 percent.
The rest of the field lagged behind in single digits. Despite finishing second in the Presidency 5 straw poll, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas took fourth with 5 percent.
:-)
Breaking: Perry campaign now claiming that Americans are “unpollable” and wants to bring in citizens of other countries to answer the poll questions that Americans are not answering properly.
This backs up the tone of those I spoke to while manning a FairTax booth at a local county fair this weekend. This is a rural Florida county. The enthusiasm of those who knew about his prompter and focus group free platitudes was only embellished when they found out that the 999 is just phase 1 of his plan that transitions into full implementation of the FairTax.
Awesome!
He won in SC this weekend too:
Cain 55%; Gingrich 14.5%, Bachmann 8%, Romney 3%, Perry 2%, Huntsman 1%
The Establishment still claims that Cain is “un-electable” and that Romney with his special-interest money and Establishment support is the “inevitable” candidate.
Watch out for the Establishment Republicans. They control the rules for their primaries and for the allocation of delegates. They will use dirty tricks to steal the nomination.
If Romney, special interest money and the Republican Establishment manage to overcome the will of the people and steal the nomination, I will become one cynical and angry dude.
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The Establishment, insiders of both parties, the ‘lamestream’ media and leftist are scared to death of Herman Cain.
Herman Cain who truly was until recently a virtual unknown had faith enough in himself to decide to run for President of the United States on his own. There was no Media hype/pressure/build-up about a possible run, there was no urging by members of the Party, no words spoken into his ear by party players, elites, beltway boys or pundits, not even a word of encouragement from the Republican Party of his home state only faith in himself. Now after months of being treated as being a inconsequential candidate the curious sideshow of a conservative black Republican, he is now in the top tier along with people of great party pull, of men with experienced political machines and the dollars to power them. He did that on his own with no help from anyone except by his own. Now think what a man with faith in himself like that could accomplish if given the chance.
Now many are saying Cain hasn’t a chance with his little formal organization and even less money.
Well let me remind all of you of what a recent movement did with no formal organization and even less money, The Tea Party.
The Tea Party manage with both those weakness to go on and seriously change the political landscape and in doing so caused the Leftist members of government, elitist of both political parties and media types to quake in fear of them and their wrath and all done with only a minimum of formal organization and on a ‘shoe string’ budget.
That’s what successful AMERICANS do, what they have always done! It’s what makes us WINNERS! They start out with what they have and they MAKE IT WORK! They make it work because what they don’t have in manpower or money they make-up with brains, sweat, blood and last but most important faith.
Yes it is. But he needs more. Once Perry drops out much of his support will probably go to his fellow RINO, Romney. Cain needs to be as far ahead as possible when that happens.
34 vs 33. Cain still leads.
The Establishment AND the left MSM are trying to “Fred Thompson” Cain like they did back in 2008 to thwart Thompson’s campaign by repeating the lie that he was unelectable, and that he had no fire in the belly. They repeated that lie everywhere and often. Uninformed people bought it up hook line and sinker. Problem is even FReeper’s here bought that bunch of BS and ran with it, rallying around McCain instead.
“Perry at just 5% TEA Party support in the south? What a train wreck. “
Why do you post this CRAP. The Perry guys have been telling us all weekend that Cain doesn’t have enough money to be in the lead, much less defeat Romney.
Apparently there’s some formula we don’t know about...such as $1M in campaign money equals 18,000 votes, or something - and therefore Perry’s 5% is actually LEADING in the polls.
That’s why we IDIOTS shouldn’t be posting stuff like this. All of these polls are rigged, we all know by Perry’s back account that he has Florida wrapped up.
LOL.
I will also be angry if Romeny and the Establishment of RINOs steal the primary. It will be tactics like this that will make a third party of conservatives actually not such a far fetched idea.
“He won in SC this weekend too:
Cain 55%; Gingrich 14.5%, Bachmann 8%, Romney 3%, Perry 2%, Huntsman 1%”
WE GOT YOU GUYS NOW!!!!! We’re Perry guys are defeating Huntsman two to one, and are getting ready to take on Romney. The die is set, and in December, 2315, we’ll be ready for Cain.
“Yes it is. But he needs more. Once Perry drops out much of his support will probably go to his fellow RINO, Romney. Cain needs to be as far ahead as possible when that happens.”
Of they’ll now go to Romney...that’s probably where they are now, but they know they cannot post under that name. From what I’m seeing in the past two weeks, there seems to be a new group of Perry supporters hitting everyone else real hard (there are still the old Perry people, but they have their own threads going). I’m convinced we’re no no longer even talking to real Perry supporters.
I AM IN ON THIS ONE. 100% !!!!!!
Total garbage. If Perry drops out most of his support will go to Cain, and some to Newt. Nobody I know who supports Perry would even think of voting Romney in the primary, and I doubt if there are any Perry supporters here at FR that would either.
Bump for Cain!
Sarah was unelectable also,, looks like her support went pretty much to Cain...will he get enough money???
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