From the Democrat Public Policy Polling firm.
Excerpt:
Herman Cain’s poll momentum is continuing for at least another week. PPP surveys conducted over the weekend in Ohio and Hawaii find him with a large lead in both states. That now makes 7 consecutive polls over the last 3 weeks- a national one and state polls in Ohio, Hawaii, Iowa, North Carolina, Nebraska, and West Virginia- that have found Cain leading the way.
[…]Tea Party voters continue to be the primary driver of Cain’s momentum. In Ohio he gets 46% of their support to 15% for Gingrich and 11% for Bachmann with Romney finishing all the way back in 4th place at 9%. It’s a similar story in Hawaii- there Cain and Romney actually tie at 30% each among non-Tea Party Republicans. But with the Tea Pary crowd Cain gets a whooping 52% to 12% for Bachmann and 9% for Romney. These numbers represent a recurring theme in our polls- Romney doesn’t necessarily need to win Tea Pary voters but he sure needs to not lose them by 40 points if he hopes to win the nomination.
[…]The big loser in these polls is Rick Perry. The low numbers of Republicans planning to vote for him is a concern but his even bigger issue is that GOP voters are now saying that they just flat out don’t like him. In Ohio his favorability is 40/42 with the primary electorate and in Hawaii it’s 36/40. His problem isn’t that Republican voters just like someone else better than him- it’s that at this point they don’t even like him at all. He has some serious image rehabilitation to do to get back in this race.
[…]In addition to Cain the other candidate continuing to show some surprising momentum in Newt Gingrich. He gets a solo third in Ohio and a tie for third in Hawaii, and the numbers in the Buckeye State show the improvement in his image over the last 5 months. When PPP last tested his favorability in May he was at 42/34 with primary voters. Now that’s improved to 56/32 and the only Republican with a better net favorability is Cain.
Results:
| Poll | Cain’s lead (%) | Second place (%) |
|---|---|---|
| National | 30 | Romney 22 |
| Ohio | 34 | Romney 19 |
| Hawaii | 36 | Romney 24 |
| Iowa | 30 | Romney 22 |
| North Carolina | 27 | Romney/Gingrich 17 |
| Nebraska | 30 | Gingrich 16 |
| West Virginia | 24 | Gingrich 18 |
I wonder when the liberal Mitt Romney will be dropping out of the race? Perhaps he can go work for Obama, since he seems to agree so much with him.
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WINTERY KNIGHT 
I watched his interview on “Piers Morgan” last night, and some of his answers about abortion seemed classic “Modified Pro-Choice” (IE, I personally believe abortion is wrong but would never force that view upon a woman). Your thoughts?
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Disturbing and alarming.
However, see this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/attacked-by-rivals-herman-cain-clarifies-abortion-stance/?test=latestnews
Quote:
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Also, wasn’t he head of the Federal Reserve a while back too? A (very Christian–not that it really matters) friend of mine advocates that the Fed. Reserve should be eliminated…thinks it wholly corrupt and that it “steals” from Americans. Never really heard his argument before…not really knowing what to think of it, except I can see how some of the practices of the Fed have brought inflation upon us…again: thoughts? I’m just now getting into evaluating this whole train of thought.
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Kansas City Federal Reserve.
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I saw him in a different interview say that he opposed all abortion, even in the cases of rape and incest. But he said that when the mother’s life was at risk, that should be the family’s decision. I don’t know if that’ what he meant to say in this interview with Piers Morgan, or if he meant it in both cases. The main point he was trying to make though seemed to be that those instances are so rare that it is near meaningless to focus on them.
Republican pro-life candidates really need to learn how to “trot out the toddler” to their advantage to establish common ground between them and liberals like Morgan.
By the way, I watched that interview, and two things stuck out to me:
1) Cain wore his ‘lucky gold tie’, and when Morgan asked him about it, his explanation was that he is a fan of the gold standard and that we never should have gotten off of it.
2)After the first half of the interview, Morgan really seemed to like him as a person, and they got along well, despite their differences. I think that is a very good thing.
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Interesting post at redstate.com on this:
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/10/21/a-mea-culpa-on-herman-cain-and-abortion/
Redstate.com, I am learning, is pretty anti-Cain, attacking him any chance they get and for pretty dumb reasons. It is encouraging to see when one of their bloggers is honest enough to admit one of his previous attacks on Cain was premature with regards to this part of his interview with Morgan.
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I noticed that. I would expect that they are backing Perry? It’s weird because Erik Erikson is from Macon, GA.
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Yeah, it seems they are backing Perry. Erick was the guy who Perry used to kick off his campaign (at least, to declare his candidacy). I listen to Erick on the radio and he is a good guy–pretty fair for the most part, but you can tell listening to him that he just really doesn’t think Cain can win, and does not want him to be the nominee. Erick is pretty fair for the most part with Cain, but still biased against him I think. I don’t think he likes the Fairtax, and so that I think may be part of the reason.
You see some pretty lame attacks on Cain over there, such as this:
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2011/10/17/herman-cain-thinks-9-9-9-is-a-really-bad-idea/
Totally spun out of context what Cain said about the VAT tax, at the time there was discussion of adding one to the EXISTING tax code.
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The Cain-Gingrich ticket will be perfect, and also a great answer to, “…but he doesn’t have enough political experience.” I also think it’s funny how a few months ago people were questioning Bachmann’s political experience and now conservatives are perfectly happy with Cain. Only in America! Cain really is the answer to Obama and the embodiment of the American dream. Cain is proof that the system works and doesn’t need to be altered, that no one in America needs another bailout (but we do need jobs), that the problem with our government is our government, and proof that Americans are still social conservatives. Romney doesn’t get that, he’s a statist who has lost his moral compass and is pushing the liberal agenda. The American people are tired of politics as usual. We need a change and there’s a Herman Cain a comin’!
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The problem with Bachmann is her executive experience, not her political experience. Cain, who is no stranger to politics, has more political experience than her and more executive experience than the rest of the field combined.
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