NYT/CBS Poll: Cain Maintains Lead Over Romney; Update: DWS Blasts Perry Tax Plan

By Doug Powers  •  October 25, 2011 01:31 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

Karl Rove stuck a fork in him, Hillary Clinton mocked him, much has been made of a couple of statements that needed clarifying, other GOP candidates as well as those who make a good living off the current bloated tax code have blasted 999, and his Chief of Staff is a ::gulp:: smoker, but in spite of all that, Herman Cain maintains a lead:

Businessman Herman Cain is now atop the field of Republican White House hopefuls, squeaking past former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.

Cain garnered 25 percent support of Republican primary voters in the poll released on Tuesday, compared to Romney’s 21 percent.

The number describing themselves as undecided is diminishing, and it looks like many of them are falling toward Cain and Romney:

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Surprising that Huntsman didn’t get more of a bump from Chris Matthews’ admission that he’s tingle-worthy, isn’t it?

As always, things can change rapidly. Four years ago today, Giuliani and Thompson were leading the polls.

As far as the candidate I can most identify with, this week I’ve got to go with Rick Santorum for trying to watch a football game during a speech:

GOP nomination update: Debbie Wasserman Schultz just called Rick Perry’s tax plan the “definition of insanity.” In other words, it’s probably a pretty good plan. A hearty thumbs-down from DWS might be good enough for bump in the polls for Perry.

**Written by Doug Powers

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  1. #101
    On October 25th, 2011 at 8:52 pm, swede said:

    Hiraghm said:

    Wrong. What you are asserting is that NOBODY ever supports ANY candidate.

    Wrong. I am asserting no candidate is perfect, as MM so eloquently said.

    I would be holding my nose if I voted for Cain, but I would NOT be holding my nose if I voted for Bachmann… Get it?

    I wouldn’t hold my nose for either, and actually sent cash to Bachmann’s campaign first. (You?) I’ve since seen she is not ready for prime time. Cain’s leadership is stronger, and he can win it. Bachmann VP? Bring it!

    Phil is not a RINO, but noseholders are CINOs… Conservatives In Name Only.

    Guess you missed Michelle’s Hold Your Nose Tracker. Michelle and Doug are both professed “noseholders” Get it? Are you suggesting they are not conservative?

    I call Phil a RINO because he discounts traditional conservative values as unimportant in candidates. A president should know abortion is evil, marriage involves a man and a woman – and for God sake he/she should know there is a God! Fiscal and Constitutional conservatism is necessary, but not enough.

    Early flight. swede out.

  2. #102
    On October 25th, 2011 at 8:58 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Ref #69: Please, don’t you EVER use the word love when you’re speaking to or about me.
    The topic is the upcoming caucases, not your addressing silly, arrogant, condescending, patronizing statements to me. Ooops, I forgot, that’s how the majority of liberals speak to others they think are beneath them.

  3. #103
    On October 25th, 2011 at 9:22 pm, Hangfire said:

    On October 25th, 2011 at 8:58 pm, FirstSkirt said:
    Ooops, I forgot, that’s how the majority of liberals speak to others they think are beneath them.

    Leftie IFF?

  4. #104
    On October 25th, 2011 at 9:27 pm, Hiraghm said:

    Wrong. I am asserting no candidate is perfect, as MM so eloquently said.

    And you’re wrong. Bachmann is perfect.

    I wouldn’t hold my nose for either, and actually sent cash to Bachmann’s campaign first. (You?) I’ve since seen she is not ready for prime time. Cain’s leadership is stronger, and he can win it. Bachmann VP? Bring it!

    I don’t have money to send to any candidate, though Bachmann would be the only one I’d send money to. We’ll see in a month or so how my finances are.

    Hillary’s leadership is wonderfully strong. So is Putin’s.
    No, I will not hold my nose to vote for Cain just to see the right candidate stuck in at VP.
    Cain’s a lot of talk, but he hasn’t walked the walk like Bachmann has. Cain’s 9/9/9 plan is disastrous, and he’s confusing on several issues important to me. If I had an example of where he’d stood his ground and did what he said he’d do, like Bachmann, I’d feel better about him.

    Guess you missed Michelle’s Hold Your Nose Tracker. Michelle and Doug are both professed “noseholders” Get it? Are you suggesting they are not conservative?

    I’m sorry, but that childish argument hasn’t worked with me since 2nd grade. I adore Ms Malkin. But she can, and has, been wrong in the past, and will be wrong again.
    I saw the noseholder tracker, and simply because she chose that title, and used it to point out the flaws in the current frontrunners, does NOT mean she’s going to hold her nose just to get Obama out. The election is still a year off.

    Anyone who thinks it’s more important to get an R in the White House (or to get a D out of the White House) than it is to get a C in the White House is a CINO. Period, end of line.

    Doug… he’s definitely to the left of Ms Malkin. And therefore wrong more often.

    I tend to follow Ann Coulter’s view; I’m middle of the road and the rest of y’all are crazy. Only, “middle of the road” is conservative.

  5. #105
    On October 25th, 2011 at 9:53 pm, swede said:

    Hillary’s leadership is wonderfully strong. So is Putin’s.

    Dude. Send me some of whatever your smoking!

    Cain’s a lot of talk, but he hasn’t walked the walk like Bachmann has.

    Seriously, send me the stuff. Re-read the man’s bio please. He’s a visionary, builder, mega-manager and a problem solver. I’ll take than over any politician any day and 5 times on Sunday.

    Anyone who thinks it’s more important to get an R in the White House (or to get a D out of the White House) than it is to get a C in the White House is a CINO. Period, end of line.

    SHEEEEEEEEESHHHHHHHH!!!!! It is important to get ZERO out. Get it? Putz-OTUS must go ASAP to begin rebuilding the economy and re-establish US credibility in the world. I have not registered GOP since 2000. I am independent Conservative, not libertarian either. I have NEVER voted for anyone because they were Republican – I voted for them in spite of it. Get it?

    I would be delighted with either Bachmann or Cain in the Whitehouse. Please do not tell me Cain would not be better for the country and future than ZERO. Please.

    At any rate, do something NOW. The important thing is that Romney or Perry are NOT the candidates on the ballot.

  6. #106
    On October 25th, 2011 at 10:43 pm, kentroyals5 said:

    On October 25th, 2011 at 8:58 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Ref #69: Please, don’t you EVER use the word love when you’re speaking to or about me.
    The topic is the upcoming caucases, not your addressing silly, arrogant, condescending, patronizing statements to me. Ooops, I forgot, that’s how the majority of liberals speak to others they think are beneath them.

    Relax. You just got owned on the internet by a ‘liberal.’ It’s not the end of the world. Sip a drink and relax. Enjoy your evening. Come back stronger another day.

  7. #107
    On October 25th, 2011 at 10:59 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I would be delighted with either Bachmann or Cain in the Whitehouse. Please do not tell me Cain would not be better for the country and future than ZERO. Please.

    At any rate, do something NOW. The important thing is that Romney or Perry are NOT the candidates on the ballot.

    I agree swede. Actually I am torn between the two of them. I also would be happy with Santorum or Newt. I also am not sure what I will do if Perry or Romney prevails. I still think winning the Congress and purging the current GOP leadership in it is almost as critical as the Oval Office.

    I just want that corrupt, incompetent Marxist gone. He has turned our government into a sewer. My frst act as President would be to terminate any person hired during Obama’s term as President. I do not care if it was a GS-3 admin clerk. I would make sure I got them all ot. Then I would purge the Department of State of every Democrat I could find.

    It will take 12 years to undo the damage Obama has inflicted. He damaged this country 20 times worse than Bin Laden ever did.

  8. #108
    On October 26th, 2011 at 6:17 am, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Mitt Romney, the ‘republican’ candidate endorsed by the same majority of fine voters who brought us Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and … Michael Dukakis.

    Yecccch!

  9. #109
    On October 26th, 2011 at 9:34 am, spaceycakes said:

    You just got owned on the internet by a ‘liberal.’

    FirstSkirt–don’t you carry a sgian dubh for rubbish like this?

  10. #110
    On October 26th, 2011 at 10:20 am, FirstSkirt said:

    KENTROYAL #106. You just got owned on the internet by a ‘liberal.”

    Bwaahaa….sure…in your dreams, skippy.

    Spaceycakes….why, yes I do, and it’s always a good idea to target practice using an Obeyme bullseye – heh.

  11. #111
    On October 26th, 2011 at 10:29 am, spaceycakes said:

    fantastic;

    Alba go Bragh!!!

  12. #112
    On October 26th, 2011 at 10:56 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    What, I thought you women used crochet hooks?

  13. #113
    On October 26th, 2011 at 11:14 am, spaceycakes said:

    heh. You’ll never know what you might find in the sporran.

  14. #114
    On October 26th, 2011 at 11:40 am, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    kentroyals5

    Relax. You just got owned on the internet by a ‘liberal.’ It’s not the end of the world. Sip a drink and relax. Enjoy your evening. Come back stronger another day.

    (laughs)

    Actually, I think you just confirmed his assessment.

  15. #115
    On October 26th, 2011 at 12:34 pm, txvet2 said:

    On October 26th, 2011 at 6:17 am, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Mitt Romney, the ‘republican’ candidate endorsed by the same majority of fine voters who brought us Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and … Michael Dukakis.

    Yecccch!

    The weird thing is that in 2008 he was one of the most conservative candidates.

  16. #116
    On October 26th, 2011 at 2:32 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    A hearty thumbs-down from DWS might be good enough for bump in the polls for Perry.

    Speaking of Perry, it’s no secret that the media tried to “gotcha” Perry with questions about Obama’s (in)eligibility.

    And while it absolutely matters whether or not the purported birth certificate is fraudulent, that is not as important as an even bigger cover-up:

    JUSTIA.COM SURGICALLY REMOVED “MINOR v HAPPERSETT” FROM 25 SUPREME COURT OPINIONS IN RUN UP TO ’08 ELECTION.

    People need to understand that

    the historical record of Supreme Court decisions was altered!

    And TAMPERING WITH OFFICIAL WRITINGS IS A FEDERAL CRIME UNDER 18 U.S.C. 1018.

    And the “programming error” theory has been debunked. It appears that the alterations of Supreme Court decisions at Justia.com were done intentionally, to conceal the fact that the Supreme Court precedent, first set in Minor v. Happersett, and later cited in 25 other cases(!), is that a natural born citizen is:

    “born in a country of parents who were its citizens”

    Joe Farah’s Op Ed:

    We need only ask ourselves one question: “Were both his parents U.S. citizens when he was born?” By Obama’s own admission, and also by the questionable documents he has provided the public, the answer is ‘no.’ And that settles it. Obama is not eligible to be the president.

    This is an issue few want to confront head-on. So the media have refused to ask the right question. Instead, they insist on making it a matter of faith as to whether we accept that Obama was born in the USA.

    I don’t care anymore. I suspect he’s lying about his birthplace. He may not even know himself. But it’s irrelevant as to the question of eligibility.

    Now the only question is: “Do we still care about what the Constitution says?”

  17. #117
    On October 26th, 2011 at 4:09 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Hangfire said: ..not because he is the “Anti-Obama.

    But an ‘Anti-Obama’ is exactly who we need whether black, white, purple, striped or all four so that’s why I am voting for Herman Cain.

    The fact he is black is just an added plus simply because it will nullify the racial advantage Obama would receive otherwise.

    (Sticking tongue out at Janet Garofalo…)

  18. #118
    On October 26th, 2011 at 5:49 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
  19. #119
    On October 26th, 2011 at 5:53 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    ITookTheRedPill said: People need to understand that the historical record of Supreme Court decisions was altered!

    Somebody tell Justice Roberts – he swore in the big Zero.

    If NOT the SCOTUS then WHO is charged with OBEYING the US Constitution on such issues?

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