Yet, even with the story and the terrible way the Cain campaign has handled the response, I don't see any polls showing it has damaged him.
I don't think Cain is a great candidate. I don't think I would even call him a good candidate. But he remains the front-runner, probably due to the Republican electorates refusal to support either Romney or Perry.
I originally hadn't taken Cain too seriously as he is far from polished. But as events continue to unfold, I'm thinking more and more that the electorates disgust with typical politicians is driving Cain's popularity, giving him a Teflon candidate status.
If he were to actually win the nomination, could he actually beat Obama? I'm not convinced.....yet.
“Yet, even with the story and the terrible way the Cain campaign has handled the response, I don’t see any polls showing it has damaged him.”
It would be too early for any polls to be out showing the fallout (if any) of this incident. I think the first day or two of the story he was helped because conservatives were rallying around him and his fundraising went up.
But, the longer this story lingers on-and if it turns out that the Cain campaign is making unfounded accusations against other campaigns, this thing might start to hurt him. I just think people voting in the GOP primary don’t want to hear about this for days on end.
I think we expected Mr Cain to issue a firm denial of wrongdoing and get back to the serious issues facing our country. That clearly has not happened. I think idle speculation about who the leaker might be not only keeps the story front and center, but makes (some) voters start to wonder if there’s not something to this after all.
I don’t think Cain is a great candidate either.
In fact, he has very little to recommend him for President.
For some reason, he caught the fancy of conservatives, many of them disappointed Palin supporters.
From there he moved on to becoming a cult figure with a lot of creepy worshippers. They defended him by attacking other candidates, not on his particular merits.
I believe and hope that Cain has peaked and that people will come down to earth and realize that he is not a good candidate for us.