Posted on 10/27/2011 7:27:53 AM PDT by Jay777
Herman Cain takes the lead in the Republican presidential nomination contest as GOP voters continue to deny Mitt Romney clear front-runner status.
A Fox News poll released Wednesday shows support for Cain has quadrupled among GOP primary voters since late August. At that time, he stood at 6 percent. After three September debates, he jumped to 17 percent. And now Cain leads the pack at 24 percent.
While it’s the first time Romney has trailed Cain, it’s the second time he’s been ousted from the lead since July. Romney receives 20 percent — a new low for him but still within the margin of error of 5.5 percent among Republican primary voters. Romney was at 23 percent last month and a high of 26 percent in early August.
Newt Gingrich now comes in third with 12 percent — edging out Rick Perry. The former speaker — like Cain — has seen his support quadruple since late August.
Perry’s support has dropped to 10 percent, down from 19 percent in September. After his mid-August announcement, Perry captured 29 percent of the vote and took the front-runner role from Romney.
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Poor Fox News. They are working hard for Romney. Didn’t Karl “RINO” Rove tell us Cain was tanking?
Will Fox finally stop calling Romney the front runner now?
I'll be damned if I'll let anyone, Romney included, telling me that I have to buy his health care. Don't these idiots get it?
ROMNEY . . . GO AWAY!
Romney is leading in the 4 early states...according to a CBS-NY Times poll.
“as GOP voters continue to deny Mitt Romney clear front-runner status”
Apparently Romney still has “front runner status”, but the voters won’t allow that to become “clear”. Shameful that.
As of right now I am about 90% sure I am going to support Cain. On another note, I am 100% sure I am NOT going to support Romney in the GOP Primary.
Steven Hays said Cain was the front runner but a tenuous one..........at least that’s a start!
Just like McCain, Romney will be pushed and pushed and pushed until he gets the nomination.
Remember in Iowa when McCain came in FOURTH!! Fred Barnes said it was great for McCain. Fred Thompson came in third and wasn’t even mentioned.
Only the preferred candidate will be mentioned. Unfortunately for them, Cain has elbowed his way into their nightly reports.
The whole process stinks.
That's why Romney's name is always promoted . . . the dummycrats, the idiot in the White House, and all the RINO establishment jerks want Romney as bad as they wanted Dole and McLame.
My God! We just can't go thru this again.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
You’re an Ohioan. I thought Romneycare was Massachusetts, and Mitt has a long standing campaign promise to exempt all states from Obamacare (while the cynical might ask is that ALL Mitt intends to do, and it’s a valid question, there should be some basis for the accusation that it is all).
I believe Cain would do the same if elected — upon inauguration, he signs a 50 state exemption to Obamacare if it hasn’t been killed in the USSC already. That doesn’t mean it’s all Cain intends to do.
I would like to see a Cain/Gingrich ticket in that order. That wold be a partnership between economic wisdom and political savvy that heretofore was manifest only once, in President Reagan. It is possible, though, that we are seeing political savvy in Cain with a new and effective and cheaper approach.
If Gingrich never intends to go on to presidential candidacy a la Cheney, he’d be a good mover and shaker if he can stay loyal to Cain. I’m not highly thrilled with the idea of a President Gingrich, though a President Republican Ham Sandwich would be vastly superior to a second term of President Barack Obama.
“That’s why we need one primary date . . . just one”
I would prefer that WITH the caveat that the more “red” your state, the more delegates your state is awarded.
I think if you polled the FR membership, fewer than 5% would vote for Mitt in a primary. Maybe to bump aside someone like Huntsman, but that’s all.
Some folks, like the very estimable Jim Rob himself, have said they won’t support Mitt if he ends up the GOP candidate. If Mitt does achieve this, times should become verrrrrry interesting on FR as the long knives come out.
I wasnt quite sure about Cain for awhile. Then I saw that ad where that dude was smoking and that “im coming to rock your world” smile to the intellectual nanny state elites. I hate smoking. But that was Ronald Reagan sense of humor
Therefore my very own decision desk has projected Herman Cain to be the winner in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida.
the Cain train is on the attack.
Media: Romney is the front runner
Polls: Cain is the front runner
Media: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story
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