Posted on 11/18/2011 9:17:20 AM PST by justsaynomore
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa- The KCRG-Gazette-Iowa State University poll of more than 1200 registered Iowa voters came out Thursday.
Three candidates took nearly two-thirds of the overall vote.
Herman Cain was at the top, with 24.5 percent. Not far behind, Texas Representative Ron Paul. Mitt Romney took about 16 percent. All other candidates polled in the single digits. When asked for a second choice, voters picked “can’t decide” more than 20 percent of the time, leaving a large gap of uncertainty in the race.
In a somewhat surprising twist, Herman Cain polled better among women than other candidates in the poll. The results gathered during rampant criticism of Cain for sexual harassment allegations made against him in the 90’s.
Cathy Grawe is a registered republican and Herman Cain supporter. She’s met Cain twice in person and says both times she was very impressed with him.
“In his heart, I know he’d make intelligent decisions good decisions,” Grawe said. The Coralville grandmother says she was not swayed by the allegations telling us she believes it’s mostly just politics.
“They’ve seen enough character assassination to know you have to take everything with a grain of salt,” she says.
Not everyone is convinced Cain can shake the allegations and capture independent and undecided voters.
“I just don’t think he could really, because it isn’t a good thing to hear about him,” said Yvonne Theel, a democrat from Marion.
“I think it’s going to be harder for women, because it’s a more sensitive issue,” said Angie Johnson also from Marion and a democrat.
But Grawe says she firmly believes, if Cain can make it through the caucuses, the allegations might take a back seat to his economic policies.
“As little traction as it’s gotten,” said Grawe, “I tend to think it won’t come back up again.”
Give it time.
Waiting for “Lies unsupported by facts and childish personal attacks!” spam in 3,.... 2,.....1,...... GO!
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This is the 11th incranation here of this weeks-old poll. LOL
Sorry, meant “poll that started weeks ago.”
“He’s got my vote over Romney in Michigan.”
I love Cain and agree.
However, ANYONE has my vote over RINOmney in Michigan.
Feel free to ignore the facts when they challenge your little bubble world political dogmas. Just don't expect anyone else to buy your emotional hysteric drivel.
Screaming the lie louder will not magically change your emotion based fictions to fact. I gave you the link, read it for yourself.
Now I’m really hoping Cain drops out of the race soon just to hear you sputter and groan and perhaps, if we are real lucky, for you to go away.
I love you passive aggressive posting style. You behave like jerk and then whine when people treat you like one.
I see you are keeping with your track record for “responding” with completely unrelated comments to whatever has been posted, without actually pointing to what you are responding to.
You are like a really bad Turing Test.
Like I said CT, YOU might think yourself a deep thinker, the rest of us see you as a bombastic fool who confuses his emotion based opinions for facts.
I actually think Cleverbot, if fed people's comments, would give better responses than you do.
Screaming in hysterics louder CT will not magically change your emotion based fictions to facts.
It merely guarantees more Freeprs see, and laugh, at your arrogant ignorance
Nobody ever accused you of not welcoming change have they?
Rather then continue screaming in hysteric denial, read the poll for yourself.
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/nov/ISUpoll
I agree, Ken (and others here have said similar things).
Long-term, Republicans absolutely **MUST** do something, and do it quickly, to address demographic shifts. We must find a way to make clear to black and to hispanic churchgoers that their votes need to reflect their faith, and we need to show both groups that their long-term economic self-interest does not lie with the party of welfare but with the party of capitalism.
If we don't do something quickly, and if we get branded permanently as the party of racist bigotry, we're in real trouble. I don't want to have to wait for the collapse of the country due to destructive liberal policies and the rise of some new conservative movement; let's fix our bigotry problems now. Cain may just be the way to do it — a successful black business leader who became a Republican because he saw that being a Democrat leads to socialism.
I want Cain somewhere doing something for the Republicans, and I want that badly. However, I've said many times before that I really, really, really wish Cain were running for the Senate or for a governorship. He needs political experience in office; the presidency is not an entry-level job. However, our last presidential election showed us that voters are willing to elect someone with a very thin resume, and so many of President Obama’s problems are due to bad policies rather than inexperience that I'm afraid we as Americans haven't yet re-learned the lessons from President Jimmy Carter of putting fresh-faced people into leadership who are not tested and may not be ready.
If Cain's the nominee I'm sure I'll vote for him. Right now I'm leaning toward Cain but that's mostly because I'm concerned about the policies or apparently opportunistic backgrounds of the candidates who have better qualifications (Romney and Perry), and because I am particularly concerned about Perry's poor performance in the debates.
For our Texans here, how on earth did Perry manage to remain Texas governor with such poor public performances? Did he never face a good grilling before in Texas? I wasn't aware that Texas politicians were routinely playing softball politics, but it really looks like Perry is out of his league here, and that's not a good thing.
Face it MNJohnnie... I’m the smartest one in the room. You’re just a poser....
/snark....
From YOUR link:
"The poll was compiled through phone interviews Nov. 1-13, and surveyed 979 registered Republicans and 277 registered independents. Of those polled, 377 (30 percent) stated that they definitely or probably would attend the Republican caucus Jan. 3."
So, again, what did I say that was a lie? You are short on backing up your claim. I back up mine.
READ the poll. I gave you the linke
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