Cain leads GOP field in Battleground poll (New Politico Poll Shows Cain 27-25 Over Romney)

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[icwhatudo]

(Buried deep down in the 6th paragraph were the actual polling results)

"In the full sample, based on four days of national polling, Romney finished second with 25 percent (behind Cain’s 27 percent). Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry tied for third at 14 percent."

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The POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of 1,000 likely voters, including 436 Republicans, was conducted Nov. 6-9 by The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners. The nationwide telephone survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Ah....Rove......the traitor with 3 chins : )

[WalterSkinner]

..inching toward Iowa and Cain is still standing—the man, the message, and the money...

[Springfield Reformer]

There’s lies, d@mn lies, and polls. Aka “selective reinforcement.” When your guy is really ahead, brag about it as much as possible. When he’s behind, find a bad poll with a poor sampling and amplify the misinformation. Bottom line, its good to see Cain doing well after the propaganda dump, but this game will be won or lost on the ground, where the real “voting” has already begun.

[xzins]

I wouldn’t expect a newbie who signed up a week ago to be calling out a freeper who has been around for nearly a decade.

If you don’t recognize that Cain has real weaknesses, and that he is not necessarily electable versus Obama, then I think advice from your corner is ignorable.

There are conservatives in this race. From most to least conservative, I would rank them: Santorum/Bachmann, Gingrich/Perry/Cain, and Paul. Romney and Huntsman are not conservatives and should really be running in the democratic primary.

I appears that all the attacks on Cain’s personal behavior have been out of the democratic attack machine based in Chicago.

Just as a hypothetical, what would be the advantage to the democrats in revealing right now a deadly absolute-proof-of-sexual-harassment “2012 October surprise” against Cain, now variously leading the republican polls, that would take him down right now?

[Eddie01]

Bob Dole, John McCain, ...Mitt Romney? Not this time.

[justsaynomore]

“Why don’t we just do “Random acts of Cainness”.

Do something nice for someone totally out of the blue, but leave a 9-9-9 behind. :)”

AH! That reminds me of something! A suggestion was put out by someone (team Cain?) recently... I have switched computers and don’t have the email anymore. There was a drive to donate to food banks and to attach a flyer (which they had attached to an email). Does anyone have that?

[Future Useless Eater]

With Battleground poll included

Much like what the government does with unemployment statistics, the following chart represents a 4-poll "rolling average" for the latest 20+ polls listed at RealClearPolitics.com (plus recent weekly national polls from YouGov).

I also weighted the polls by their size. For example, a poll with a survey size of 1000 was weighted proportionately heavier than an 324 survey size.

Weighted 4-Poll Rolling Averages of the latest 20+ Polls listed at RCP [as of Nov 12th]
plus "YouGov" 11/8, 11/1, 10/25, 10/18 and 10/11 polls,
and Poll Position 11/8, and 11/1 polls inserted chronologically

(Example methodology for this chart is on my profile page)
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BTW: Real Clear Politics (of Chicago) cheated today, in order to keep ROMNEY in the lead!

When they added Battleground today, they eliminated Rasmussen from their averages, even though it clearly was taken within the last 14 days (their standard). If they had kept Rasmussen, Cain would have led their averages again (Cain +0.2).
RCP has violated their standards before, in the other direction, keeping Romney-favored polls up to 3 weeks at times in order to keep their blessed boy in the lead.

[libstripper]

OMG!! And the LSM, Fox included, were telling us how Cain was losing. In fact he's just proved what a great president and presidential candidate he would be by courageously surviving the most horrific, mendacious, scurrilous, groundless attack the LSM have ever aimed at any presidential candidate I know of in the last 50 years. Through it all he's shown tremendous courage and humor. Just try to find any other candidate in either party who could take that abuse and come out on top the way Herman has.

[icwhatudo]

"BTW: Real Clear Politics (of Chicago) cheated today, in order to keep ROMNEY in the lead!

When they added Battleground today, they eliminated Rasmussen from their averages, even though it clearly was taken within the last 14 days (their standard). If they had kept Rasmussen, Cain would have led their averages again (Cain +0.2).

RCP has violated their standards before, in the other direction, keeping Romney-favored polls up to 3 weeks at times in order to keep their blessed boy in the lead. "

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Nice find!

Did you also notice they list Romeny at the top of the polls even when he is behind?

Busted

Look how Romney is always listed at the top even when he is not getting the highest percentage.

Along with that BS national poll of 347 and the other of 102 (LOL) that show Romney in the lead...you should start a thread on all the tricks the MSM is using to prop up Romney.

[Cowman]

you should start a thread on all the tricks the MSM is using to prop up Romney.

The press is made up of Kennedy loving wonks and Romney is just following the family tradition of wonkishness and kissing up to the Kennedys.

You should look into what George Romney did at HUD.

And I'm still mad at him for killing the Javelin.

[Kaslin]

The title that you posted is misleading. The real title is:

Post-allegations, the Cain drain

[Kaslin]

Typo? Probably MR as in Mitt Romney

[icwhatudo]

Politico changes headline of poll story from

"Cain leads GOP field in Battleground poll"

To:

"Post-allegations, the Cain drain"

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Here is the proof:

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Now the headline reads:

[icwhatudo]

Politico changed the headline! See my above post for proof.

(BUSTED! LOL)

[wmfights]

There are conservatives in this race. From most to least conservative, I would rank them: Santorum/Bachmann, Gingrich/Perry/Cain, and Paul. Romney and Huntsman are not conservatives and should really be running in the democratic primary.

If we are going to rank them I believe the ranking should be as follows:

Small govt conservative Bachmann/Perry/Paul/Santorum.

Big govt conservative Gingrich.

Unknown Cain. His positions change so much and always need clarification it's really a gamble to believe he believes anything. Also, as recently as 2008 his wife voted in the Rat primaries.

Rats in Pub clothing Romney/Huntsman.

FWIW, I could vote for any of them except Romney/Huntsman & Cain I'm unsure. I'm sticking with Perry.

[xzins]

I have no problem with Perry.

Based on current data, he will not do well in debates with Obama.

[Chunga]

Nope. Karl Rove.

[Kaslin]

Yeah, I noticed later, when I read the other replies

[bgill]

The evening SeeBS news just announced Cain is done. Stick a fork in him. Bottoming out in the polls. Sex scandal! Sex scandal!

Sadly, most voters won’t look further than the alphabets and believe every lying word.