Posted on 11/14/2011 3:44:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Raleigh, N.C. Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in PPP's national polling. He's at 28% to 25% for Herman Cain and 18% for Mitt Romney. The rest of the Republican field is increasingly looking like a bunch of also rans: Rick Perry is at 6%, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5%, Jon Huntsman at 3%, and Gary Johnson and Rick Santorum each at 1%.
Compared to a month ago Gingrich is up 13 points, while Cain has dropped by 5 points and Romney has gone down by 4. Although a fair amount of skepticism remains about the recent allegations against Cain there is no doubt they are taking a toll on his image his net favorability is down 25 points over the last month from +51 (66/15) to only +26 (57/31).
What is perhaps a little more surprising is that Romney's favorability is at a 6 month low in our polling too with only 48% of voters seeing him favorably to 39% with a negative opinion.
There's reason to think that if Cain continues to fade, Gingrich will continue to gain.
Among Cain's supporters 73% have a favorable opinion of Gingrich to only 21% with a negative one. That compares to a 33/55 spread for Romney with Cain voters and a 32/53 one for Perry.
Cain's continuing to benefit from doubts about whether the allegations against him are true- 54% of primary voters think they are 'mostly false' to only 24 who believe they are 'mostly true.'
Painting himself as a victim of the media is proving to be a good strategy for Cain so far- 61% think it has been 'mostly unfair' to him compared to 26% who say it has been 'mostly fair.'(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at publicpolicypolling.com ...
Well, Palin can still get in, especially if some of the minor candidates release any delegates they win to her. And I still find it impressive, how she stayed in the public eye, avoided the circular firing squad and kept Reagan’s Eleventh.
And what can the MSM say about her that they already haven’t?
Did you mean to say "Milt"?
I think Milt has something to do with fish. LOL!
Everyone is looking for the Jesus candidate, he don’t exist!
YOU BETCHA
Gary Johnson! He's ready to make his move!
Herman has been raked over the coals. Never trusted Perry. Newt is the “Brain”. He will destroy Obama, no matter his flaws.
#5) The Sofa...don’t forget the sofa!
Shouldn’t that read “Got Milf” for those of us Palindromes?
The smears against Cain don’t bother me. It’s the self inflicted wounds that are going to do him in.
Most FReepers can tell you chapter and verse why Obama’s Libya policy was and is a disaster for the ever-fading prospects of peace and stability in the region. Herman can’t. As someone who’s given him a few hundred bucks already, that bothers the hell out of me.
They really need to re-examine how they do campaigns, this isn’t cutting it.
I cringe everytime one of our canidates open their mouths.
I agree with you, except to add that Newt on a very bad day would still verbally slay oblahblah, and Newt on a horrid day, would still be a much better POTUS then the current pudwacker in chief that we are stuck with at present.
So, if he falters on a foreign policy question, being a good executive and understanding he doesn’t know everything (good thing we’re looking for perfect) and then hires John Bolton for Sec. State (because an executive with his record knows how to surround him with people who ARE experts in their departments) that would seem to make up for his gaps. You know the one question I NEVER get an answer to, and I’ve asked on several threads is this:
No one comes to this job 100% prepared. No one. All come to it with varying degrees of knowledge about different aspects of the job. I’m more concerned with a person’s ability to surround themselves with good, knowledgeable people who ARE experts in the area they’re lacking and how quickly they’re able to learn. IMO Cain can do both very, very well. If not he certainly wouldn’t be able to turn companies around as fast as he did.
The founders required of the presidential candidate to be over 35 years old and to be a citizen of the US. No qualifiers. Why do you think that is? WE conservatives are the ones who are supposed to believe in this document as originally written according to the founders. Could it possibly be because the founders thought it would be important to have a person who was a successful and willing to serve? Had they thought someone with the “right” credentials who had made politics a career should be one of our main criteria should that not be in the ONE document conservatives are supposedly in favor of returning to?
Surely they were aware that someone coming from the private sector and who wanted to serve wouldn’t be aware of every single issue a president has to face and yet, that didn’t seem to be a big concern of theirs. AT what point did conservatives decide we should only follow the original intent of the founders’ original document of the parts we believe in but not the rest? If the answer from conservatives is that “the world has changed so we need someone with qualifications beyond those in the Constitution” then can we really claim to want to return our country to Constitutional principles? If you answer “yes” then you have to admit your criteria is different from those laid out in the Constitution and thus you DON’T find the founders qualifications to be important.
Cindie
Cain lasted the longest.
“with a certain Jeb B emerging as the nominee.”
That’s a scary thought; and a stomach-turning one at that.
I don’t disagree with any of that. I don’t need Herman Cain to be perfect, I know he’s a good man who will surround himself with smart, qualified people who share his goals.
But he does need to be able to tell the American people exactly what Obama has done wrong if he’s gunning for his job. And with Libya, everything Obama did was wrong. Herman needs to know why that is.
Cain does not understand the constitutional struggle deep enough to protect the constitution. I am not impressed with the advisors he’s gathered around him either.
He’s a very nice man. He’s a sucessful man in business. We need someone who has fought socialists for a long enough time to get us out from under the animals currently in power.
Newt or Perry, in my opinion. They are both flawed but they are not as bad as Romney and they know more about what we are facing than does Cain.
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