Herman Cain: Karl Rove is trying to destroy me - Maggie Haberman. Carlson: Herman Cain terrifies America's liberals. Herman Cain leads Mitt Romney by 10 points in Iowa Caucus poll. Cain Maintains Positive Intensity as Recognition Grows. PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans' intensely positive views of Herman Cain remained high over the past week, even as the percentage of Republicans familiar with him rose from 61% to 69%.
Cain's 34 Positive Intensity Score in Gallup Daily tracking conducted Oct. 3-16 is identical to results from Gallup's prior two-week rolling average, conducted Sept. 26-Oct. 9. His score is also more than twice as high as the next-most-favorably reviewed Republican, Mitt Romney, who is at 15. Newt Gingrich earns 13, followed by Rick Santorum with 10. Of the eight Republican presidential hopefuls Gallup now tracks, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, and Jon Huntsman have the lowest Positive Intensity Scores, all in the low single digits. The reversal for Perry is particularly striking: a month ago, he tied Cain for the lead on this dimension with 24.
Bottom Line Since mid-September, Cain has seen substantial increases in three key areas of his image and support among Republicans nationwide. Survey Methods. Cain Adds To ‘9-9-9’ Plan, Angering Unions. Presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks with the media after an interview in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16.AP Taking aim at minimum wage laws, union protections, and even local building codes, Herman Cain has put the finishing touches on the last missing piece of his signature “9-9-9” plan – an elaborate proposal to create “opportunity zones” in inner-city America that the GOP presidential candidate will unveil during a major campaign appearance in Detroit on Friday morning.
Cain hinted at the move during Tuesday night’s GOP debate in Las Vegas. He and his aides hope the details they provide about their plans to encourage growth in impoverished areas will deflect the surge of recent criticism branding “9-9-9” as unfair to the poor. But details about the opportunity zone proposal, as obtained in advance by Fox News, will likely make “9-9-9” more, not less, controversial, particularly with organized labor. 9-9-9 CAN SAVE OUR COUNTRY at DickMorris. By Dick Morris on October 18, 2011 Published on TheHill.com on October 18, 2011 In 1980, facing a terrible economy, Ronald Reagan called for a new tax program: 10-10-10.
Based on the Kemp-Roth bill, he called for 10 percent cuts in income taxes for three years. He got it, and it kindled 20 years of prosperity. Herman Cain ‘one of the people’ at Costco. Herman Cain nailed "Meet the Press." In my opinion, and I was quite critical of Cain after the last debate.
Here's the transcript and video. I'll add a few comments to this post soon. Cain Channels Reagan - Deroy Murdock. ‘Ninety percent of success is showing up,” Woody Allen once observed.
This helps explain why Herman Cain is soaring and Rick Perry has gone as flat as the Texas plains. Turn on a TV, and there is the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO. From Fox and Friends to Face the Nation to The Tonight Show, the one-time chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank advances his message — virtually everywhere but the Weather Channel. In the 18 days between the September 22 and October 11 Republican debates, Cain granted interviews to six broadcast-network programs, the Media Research Center reports, plus 18 national cable-TV news shows.
Cain appeared twice on CNN, thrice on the Fox Business Network, and eleven times on the Fox News Channel. After September 22, critics slammed Perry for letting children of illegal aliens pay in-state tuition at Texas’s government universities. Interest in Cain picks up across Iowa. This was presidential candidate Herman Cain's last visit to Iowa - for the straw poll in Ames Aug. 13.
(Justin Hayworth/The Register) Retired pizza magnate Herman Cain hasn’t campaigned in Iowa in 64 days, but as interest in his candidacy has picked up nationally, it’s intensifying here, too. And so are questions about his record, his tax plan and his motives. Conservatives in Iowa are eager for Cain to be everything they want, said Moira Crooks, a Republican from Boone and a passionate Sarah Palin supporter who’s searching for a new place to land.
“People will tend to rush toward whatever seems to fit without actually investigating,” said Crooks, 39. Bloomberg Promises 100 Percent Accuracy, Delivers Distortions and Misrepresentations — then Hides from Questions. October 6, 2011 Mr.
Jonathan Neumann Bloomberg Markets Magazine Dear Mr. Neumann: You previously wrote to us that Bloomberg Markets’ “goal is to have a story that is 100% accurate.” Editorial: Elitist Beltway Ignorance & The Rise Of Cain - Galganov.com. I watched this morning’s FOX Sunday News (October 16, 2011) with Chris Wallace and his panelists, and came away from the broadcast wondering if the five of them, Wallace and the other four, actually realize just how disengaged they are from the people?
While it might be true that they are EXPERTS on what happens within the Beltway; when it comes to understanding EVERYDAY non-Beltway people, I figure that they simply do not have a clue. Let me correct my last assumption: They were speaking about Herman Cain’s lack of organization, lack of political savvy, and lack of campaign funds. Yet, Cain is in the REAL lead amongst the REAL people. On tour, Herman Cain leaves them cheering and weeping. Reporting from Waverly, Tenn. — Some candidates tucker out as the day goes on, and some seem to draw an extra measure of strength from their adoring crowds.
By the end of the day Friday, the first of a two-day bus tour through his native Tennessee, the normally energetic Herman Cain was even more pumped up than usual. At the last of three rallies, he had women weeping and men raising their hands testifying. In some ways, the fervor of the crowd that had come to see him at 7 p.m. in Waverly, a little town between Memphis and Nashville, was reminiscent of the intensity inspired by then-candidate Barack Obama, whose oratorical skills persuaded voters uncertain about the prospects for a black presidential candidate with little experience on the world stage.
The Lean Campaign Machine of Herman Cain. Herman Cain's communications director slept a total of two hours Wednesday night, but J.D.
Gordon likes it that way. His phone is constantly ringing and, as we spoke Thursday morning, he was trying to fit in a power nap ahead of a busy interview schedule. "Right now we're just trying to stay afloat," he said. Since the surge in polls, the Cain campaign has received a flood of calls from the press and volunteers alike. According to Cain's Iowa operation, the number of members in their state Facebook group has increased 80 percent in the last week. "We have four people on staff in Iowa.
Eugene Robinson: Flavor of the Week. Flavor of the Week Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By Eugene Robinson Just be patient and you, too, can lead the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. Cain: I'm Not the Flavor of the Week. Herman Cain: The Back Story. Cain Offers Possibilities For VP: Paul Ryan, Jim DeMint. Posted on October 13, 2011 Appearing on the Nashville-based nationally syndicated Steve Gill Show today GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain specifically mentioned Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) as the type of people he would consider a good fit for his Cabinet or for the Vice Presidential slot on his ticket. “I will be looking for someone as Vice President who understands problem solving the same way that I do,” Cain noted.
“There might be different styles of leadership but there is only one formula for successful leadership: making sure you know how to identify the right problem, set the right priorities, and surround yourself with good people. You can’t be so egotistical that you are afraid to hire people smarter than you.” The Steve Gill Show airs in national syndication through Radio America on over 40 stations across the country. Herman Cain fires back in highly offensive MSNBC interview. By The Right Scoop I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard a more offensive interview on MSNBC than the one I just heard from Lawrence O’Donnell with Herman Cain.
In one interview O’Donnell managed to accuse Herman Cain of not only sitting on the sidelines during the civil rights movement, but also of dodging the Vietnam war. His contempt for a black Republican has never been more clear. At one point in the interview, O’Donnell asked Cain where America would be right now if Rosa Parks took his dad’s advice to stay out of trouble and just sit in the back of the bus. Seriously. I will say that Cain proved he could hold his own and not be rattled by the offensive assumptions of these whackos on MSNBC. It’s a long interview but it covers four main topics: Brainwashing, Civil Rights Movement, War dodging, and the 9-9-9 plan. Herman Cain Flip-Flopped on the Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki - Chris Good - Politics. In May, he said the U.S. citizen could not be targeted for assassination legally. On Sunday, he praised Obama's decision. In early May, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said it would be illegal for the Obama administration to assassinate Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen and suspected Yemeni terrorist known to be included on a "kill list" maintained by U.S. military and intelligence branches.
Cain’s conditional al-Awlaki policy. Herman Cain's '999 plan': long overdue tax reform or job killer? Herman Cain Addresses Throngs of Racist Women at the National Federation of Republican Women Convention (Video) I drove two hours south today to attend the National Federation of Republican Women’s 36th Biennial Convention for one reason: to sit down with Herman Cain again. When I got there, I was the only person from the “press” there. As I started setting up, I realized that I had forgotten to stop at Wally World and buy AA batteries for my Flip. So after making a couple inquiries, I found out there was a grocery store about four blocks away. Cosentino’s was about the fanciest grocery store I had ever been in, but it still had the Energizers I needed.
I hustled back to the convention center and heard one, if not the, most beautiful renditions of the Star Spangled Banner I have ever heard: After that, it was nothing but business, including harsh condemnation by NFRW President Sue Lynch of the presidential candidates who not only didn’t attend, but didn’t send so much as a letter for her to read to the convention. I grabbed my tripod and headed for the front row. Coca-Cola: China More Business Friendly Then US! Cainiac2012 - social networking. Herman Cain's Success Lies in the Black Vote. Herman Cain Well Liked, but Not Well Known in GOP Circles.
Did Herman Cain turn around Godfather's Pizza? Editor's note: This fact-check is a excerpt of a longer examination of Herman Cain's business accomplishments, including his work experience before and after Godfather's Pizza. Read the longer story here. Pizza is Herman Cain's biggest selling point. Zogby IBOPE Zogby Poll: Perry Plummets to 18%; Trails Cain For Lead Among GOP Primary Voters.
Cain Campaign: No 'Honkies for Herman' Bumper Stickers - Politics. Chile's Social Security Lesson For The U.S. America’s Social Security system will go bust in 2010. As political leaders scramble to save it, they’ve overlooked an obvious free-market solution that works. They need only look at Chile. Pay-as-you-go social security systems destroy the link between contributions and benefits, between effort and reward. Everyone tries to minimize what he puts into the system while trying to maximize through political pressure what he can get out of it.
THE VIRTUAL PRIMARIES: CAIN V. OBAMA; BACHMANN V. PALIN at DickMorris.