Posted on 10/05/2011 12:29:18 PM PDT by justsaynomore
A Newsmax/InsiderAdvantage poll shows businessman and radio talk-host Herman Cain now leading former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among likely GOP primary voters in the fight for the 2012 Republican nomination. The exclusive poll, taken in the past 24 hours, shows Cain vaulting Romney 26 percent to 24 percent. The poll has a margin of error of 4.4 percent. Several other polls show similar results, establishing Cain as the new grass-roots frontrunner deadlocked with Romney, the establishment Republican choice. A new CBS poll showed Cain and Romney deadlocked, with each candidate garnering 17 percent of the vote. And a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows Romney leading Cain 22 percent to 17 percent — a statistical tie due to the poll’s margin of error.
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Two interesting things to watch...
1- How will the Romney attack machine handle Cain.
2- Will a Cain defeat of O’Bombo be considered “BLACK ON BLACK” crime!
I really don’t. I do however expect Cain’s name recognition to go higher :-)
Now that Sarah has bailed out, watch for Cain’s numbers to jump dramatically. Sarah’s base will gladly support Cain.
Several have posted on Cain’s Facebook page and are being welcomed with open arms! :-)
Any true conservative who can sit through The View without strangling at least one of them is a saint.
Any conservative who can get through an interview on the View without committing a mis-step, tremendous gaffe or back tracking on their unabashed SOCIAL conservatism is the one we are looking for.
Cain went on the View, was attacked by Baba wawa, Behar and Whoopi and successfully defended himself in a completely engaging, serious and friendly manner. I think Star Jones might even like him.
No one on the republican debate stage - not Gingrich, not Perry, not Romney - could have done that. Each and every one of them would have gotten argumentative or defensive.
Cain handled them with aplomb. He can win and he’ll be a GREAT President.
A sales tax is a “regressive” tax and not a “progressive” tax. The poor who spend their entire paycheck as soon as they get it, if not before, are taxed on all of their income presently. while those who are better off will save and invest much of their income, thus shielding it from a sales tax and encouraging saving and investing. While at first glance this might seem to hurt the poor, the great progress that would be brought about by this “regressive” tax would benefit the poor far more than the “progressives” and their Marxism ever have.
So it is my fault if the tax money isn’t there to pay my job at the library or a company outsources it’s operations to Asia ? Why would an elected Republican work to “create jobs” for those they deem to be too lazy to want to work?
How does this make sense?
I agree with Cain's idea, but I think he should have said it a little more tactfully.
I think I understand Cain's thinking, but he needs a little more tact. Sharron Angle lost in NV after she said unemployed workers are "spoiled."
Reagan could communicate conservative ideas without antagonizing voters. Cain is brilliant, but I think he needs to think before speaking sometimes.
He can try a velvet glove approach but most Americans aren’t going to give the benefit of the doubt to a way of thinking that appears to be so incredibly out of touch. The wealthy part makes my blood boil and I haven’t even been laid off yet.
The Newmax poll said that 35% of GOP primary voters say they’ll consider a 3rd part if Myth gets the nod.
Hank
My point. "Appears to be." Cain needs to work on not appearing to be out of touch. Otherwise the voters will punish him.
I agree that was a pretty bad statement to make, politically speaking. Another example of his relative naivete when it comes to messaging. I love the guy, but he needs a crash course in how not to say things like this.
Hank
So, we have two grounds for objection: (1) religious, and (2) policies. The first one would be equally the same between 0bama and Romney. For policies, I'd say one would have been very ignorant if he/she doesn't see any difference between the two, even though they both might be in the unacceptable range. Romney & his Mormonism may have many objectable qualities, but if one cannot see any difference between him and 0bama, I'd say again: he/she deserves to be under 0bama forever.
Again, I'm not suggesting anybody to vote for Romney. I'm arguing against supporting a 3rd party candidate.
Nothing would make me happier than to see Palin endorse someone like Cain.
However, we need to remember that Sarah is a member of the GOP in good standing. While she has broken ranks before, I do not think she would go against Romney with an endorsement of Cain.
I think she will wait until the nominee is clear.
I lost a job as a teacher because my position disappeared in 2008.
I got in a car, drove 1000 miles, conducted 14 interviews, got 3 offers, and chose one. I’ve been working there for 3 years even though 4 teachers were cut from the school.
I think that is Cain’s point.
There's a lot of wisdom in this statement.
I'm not necessarily a Cain fan. There are things I like about him and things I don't. Many of the things I like about Cain are the things I liked about Romney back in the 2008 campaign, before I learned of Romney's abortion flip-flopping, which for me is a “no-go, no way.” Cain's business background is a big plus.
Being able to vote for a successful black Republican businessman is a huge positive, and I don't mind saying that. We need a thousand more Herman Cains running for city, county, state, and federal office. The Democratic Party takes black votes for granted, and there is absolutely no good reason why conservative evangelical churchgoing blacks should be voting for a party that is destroying on weekdays what they're hearing preached on Sundays in their churches. (Yes, I know there are lots of liberal black churches; I'm talking about conservative evangelical black churches which should be part of the Christian conservative movement, but are not.)
I just wish Cain were running for a U.S. Senate seat or a governorship. The presidency is not an entry-level job. We've seen the consequences of electing President Barack Obama who had minimal government experience, and if Cain gets the nomination, it is imperative that he surround himself with people who understand not only how business works but also how government works.
There are important differences, the biggest one being that many things about government are slow by design. A private business has every right to make its own decisions and answers to nobody but its customers and stockholders. A government answers to its constituents, and that sometimes requires very different approaches from what works in business.
A President Cain will have some serious rocky roads to overcome. However, given our current government crisis, maybe what we need is a businessman with a background of fixing near-bankrupt businesses.
The obvious answer is Ronald Reagan... but you probably already knew that before you asked! ;-)
Politicians do not usually succeed by being both nice and charismatic, but salesmen require those skills to succeed. Yes, politicians can be charismatic, but it's usually a charisma born out of rallying the troops against a hated enemy — being both charismatic and nice is unusual in a politician.
Time will tell whether Cain is selling a quality product (i.e., himself), just as time eventually told that Ronald Reagan wasn't just a great actor but a great communicator who communicated effectively because he firmly believed in his message and his message was the right message for America.
I'm not sold on Cain, at least not yet, but I'm hopeful.
Please add me to the Cain list.
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