Cain Leads
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds Herman Cain leading Mitt Romney in the GOP presidential race nationally, 30% to 22%, with Newt Gingrich at 15% and Rick Perry at 14%. Now, if somehow Cain wins both Iowa and New Hampshire and then South Carolina, he may very well steam roll towards the nomination. I just can’t see it. But this little boomlet has been sustained for several weeks now, so maybe, just maybe, Cain is really in this thing.
The one thing I am sure of, if Herman Cain is the nominee of the Republican Party, there will be a third party David Duke candidacy. Or Bloomberg gets in as an Independent because Cain is just too insane.
Well Cain can’t be the not-Romney because Cain is… uh… He can’t okay. Just accept it.
It is going to be Perry. You heard it here first.
well, i guess it’s good to know that a Black man can become a rich and powerful enemy of the worker in this country. Is “heartwarming” the right sentiment to know that greed knows no ethnicity?
I’m going to go with Jason on this.
It’s going to be near impossible for Romney to survive the primary – and even if he squeaks through, many of the anti-Romney Conservatives won’t vote him in the general. It’s a purity thing. It’s also ripe for a 3rd party Tea Party candidate.
I’m not sure how they’re going to gloss over Perry’s blunders, but my guess is that they will.
Cain is merely the flavor of the month – like Bachmann, Trump.
Perry looked lost and helpless half way through his first response last night, but it is still going to be Perry.
If the GOP spin doctors and PR alchemists were good enough to get Bush elected, they are good enough to get Perry elected.
A Romney/Cain ticket sounds like a winner to me.
Romney and Cain? Perfect….bring em on.
“Newt Gingrich at 15%”!!!!!!!! That might well be the most bizarre thing in that bizarre poll. Wasn’t he running at about 2% on polls that had a margin of error of +/- 3% (meaning that they weren’t even sure if he existed)? He has no money. He has no staff. He keeps on going on extended vacations with his wife du jour. Yet he is rising in the polls. Cain will burn out and Gingrich might be peaking at just the right time to be the anti-Romney candidate.
Cain won’t take a backseat to Romney. It’s either the top spot or nothing for him. If he loses, he’ll just go back to plopping pepperoni on a special for delivery.
Not just 1 poll, but 3 polls show Cain in the lead nationally. My brain is just having trouble accepting it. Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is just moronic.
I must say, an Obama-Cain race would be FASCINATING.
Cain is leading b/c he’s not Romney.
He won’t, however, be the ‘not-Romney’ who takes this thing all the way to the wire. At some point, he’ll be compared to that former RNC Chair Steele, and that meme will do him in.
BTW, Ben wrote:
“(I) guess it’s good to know that a Black man can become a rich and powerful enemy of the worker in this country.”
Clarence Thomas doesn’t pass muster? Or, do self-loathing blacks not qualify?
I still think they could converge on Perry as the not-Romney but this race is very fluid.
Hey El Som, did you just go all sorts of “meme” on us?!? Look at you whipping out the hermeuneutical post-modernist deconstruction of the social discourse. BAM!
How can Cain “be in this thing”? He has not staff or campaign organization to speak of — this guy is on a long-term book tour. And as Charlie Pierce recently noted, the GOP ain’t giving up 50 years of bigotry for this guy.
If the choices were; Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, Perry, Huntsman, Romney & a can of peas. The peas would be polling at 30%
And somebody at ALEC would be working on a plan to let peas vote.
McClatchy commits a pretty serious bit of journalism in looking at the Cain 999 idiocy.
It is only a matter of time before Romney tries to one-up Cain by releasing an 888 plan.
“The peas would be polling at 30%”
Not if they were those elitist, French-sounding, LeSueur peas.
Geezer is right. A cupcake with a paper American flag stuck in it would be polling at 40%
But don’t put the cupcake next to Newt.
I’d switch my party registration to vote for the can of peas.
Peas and Prosperity!
Obama has already come out against peas. He wants you to eat them.
Obama caught off-guard, scrambles to find ways to compromise with the Pea Party.
This settles it. I’m bringing a shipment of peas up to Occupy Philly. The world must see peas in our time.
“Aww come on John. Visualize Whirled Peas!” – Yoko
I went to Cain’s web site so you don’t have to.
Cain is a Fair Taxer. He explicitly says his 9-9-9 plan is intended to pave the way for the “Fair Tax.”
Wait until seniors find out just when they thought they were done with a lifetime of paying income tax, Cain wants them to pay 9% sales tax and 9% income tax.
And wait until GE et al find out Cain wants to raise their tax from 0% to 9%.
AND a 9% VAT.
“A cupcake with a paper American flag stuck in it would be polling at 40%”
I’ll take the over.