Your boy crashed down into the single digits after being at 30%. Cain has gone straight up from Day One.
Big difference.
Actually, day 150 or so. Yes, if Perry hadn't started out with a high poll numbers, but had instead come in with 4%, he'd look a lot better now, theoretically.
But as I said in another post, McCain was high in the polls, dropped to single digits, and came back up when people started really paying attention, which they are not today.
In a typical poll, 68% of the respondents say they are not committed to the candidate choice they report, which means they could easily change their minds. In one recent Iowa poll, only 30% of those who chose Cain said they were committed to his candidacy -- meaning of his 31% number, only about 10% was firm.
Polls are interesting snapshots into the minds of voters. Anybody who makes decisions on which candidate to support based on a poll is an idiot.