Herman Cain Adds Big Names to Florida Campaign Team

Tampa Bay.com ^ | 10/25/11

[LADY J]

I'm hoping these people mean what they are saying. I'm concerned about their loyalty to past liberals. Cain is a Conservative and I was hoping that he would pick a Conservative team who would be loyal & really want him to win.

However, the liberals that these people worked with - most won their elections...so this might work just fine.

[tet68]

Any one of these dudes could do something surprising and lock this thing up right away.

So could Cain.

Just sayin.

[Lazlo in PA]

If they undermine the candidate’s positions they can always be fired.

The window is so short now with the new Primary schedule that by the time bad people are canned, it might be too late.

[political1]

He is ahead in the polls in Iowa. If he can win in Florida and South Carolina. The others would surely drop out after the first month. Romney wins New Hampshire, and Nevada. That leaves a two man race to the convention. Just a prediction, but as good as any.

[Lazlo in PA]

That was a given in my post. I was pointing out that Cains frontrunner status could fade fast because there are still a few viable candidates left working to jump ahead if Cain stumbles.

[Waryone]

I’ve always wondered about the Iowa, New Hampshire strategy — concentrating all your money and effort in two tiny northern states just so that you can say you’ve won in two tiny states in the North. Florida is an important swing state and there are about four times the voters in Florida than Iowa and New Hampshire combined.

However, if one of the first two states were Ohio, I would be agreeing with you right now.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[BenKenobi]

Sorry, it was an egregarious typo. I couldn’t pass it up.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The window is so short now with the new Primary schedule that by the time bad people are canned, it might be too late.

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Gosh, you seem so “concerned.”

[Lazlo in PA]

Your darn right I am concerned. If one of the Conservatives don’t produce here early in the primaries, Mittens wins by default. How that sound for you?

[napscoordinator]

Naturally, the anti-Cain crunchers jump on board and scream, “You see! You see!” I’ll be sure to send them a box of party hats, red clown noses, and kazoos.

They are the most immature bunch I have ever seen. Add diapers and baby bottles to this group.

[GatorGirl]

These are major FL heavy hitters.

You’d best keep your ignorance to yourself and stay off of Florida threads.

Mark my words, Cain will win Florida!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Reagan did this.

The man is clearly going Reagan on us. He will be the GOP 2012 nominee.

Romney shall be vanquished to the amazement and shock of millions, particularly the elites, and Gov. Perry is already clearly his way out. What an incredible year (Lord willing and fingers crossed--dont want to be too cocky here).

[jmaroneps37]

Quick and easy ways to boost Herman: send me something then “like” him on facebook. The facebook “like” count is the latest measurement of support looked at by Tokyo Rove and his gang. It’s like an ongoing poll.

[Vigilanteman]

Basically, I agree. Except to say that Iowa is even more worthless than New Hampshire. The sample is far too small to have any real validity. New Hampshire, as a primary state, has a much larger sample but crossover voting is endemic. If I were in New Hampshire, I'd register as an Independent as well. It gives you the opportunity to vote in your party's primary when there is a real contest or screw up the other party's contest when there isn't.

Make no mistake about it: almost all Independents lean one way or the other despite what they might tell you.

South Carolina, of course, if a fairly good barometer for the nomination because it such a reliably Republican state. It is a poor barometer for the election for precisely the same reason.

That's why it all comes down to Florida. It is both a swing state (like New Hampshire and Iowa) and a closed primary state (like South Carolina). If Cain wins big here, I don't see anyway how Romney can continue his campaign. If Perry screws it up enough to make it a three way contest, then you'll have a slug fest which stretches beyond Super Tuesday. That won't be good for the GOP or good for the country.

[political1]

I am 46, and have never seen a brokered convention. Would love to see how they barter the delegates on the convention floor. I know that if no candidate has more than 50% of the delegates then it is brokered. Therefore a two man race can't be brokered because one will have the extra delegate. If there were three candidates still in at the convention with no-one having over 50% of the delegates. Two candidates get together and pool their delegates to beat the third candidate. Now that is what conventions are all about. The Democrats shouldn't have a convention this year because ‘The One’ is running unopposed.

[Vigilanteman]

You are probably too young to remember the 1976 GOP convention. It came very close to being brokered because there was a three-way race between Ford, Reagan and Uncommitted. That one was very exciting.

I was 12 when I watched the 1968 Democrat convention on my grandmother's grainy old black and white TV. That one got me hooked on politics at a very young age with excitement on the floor and out in the streets.

I'm not sure exactly when it was that political conventions deteriorated into nothing more than media events with the talking heads deciding what was and was not worth covering. I think it happened sometime during the years I lived in Japan (1988-2002).