The Herman Cain train keeps rolling right along as today′s latest Rasmussen Poll shows the seasoned CEO defeating Barack Obama 43% to 41%. In a head-to-head against Mitt Romney, the same poll shows Obama beating Romney by the same numbers. The poll of likely voters shows that the Georgia businessman whose catchy 9-9-9 tax plan is making an impact on the public. As for how Cain and Romney shape up in the GOP primary, both men are tied at 29%. Newt Gingrich is third at 10% with Rick Perry at 9%. The rest of the deluge follows with Ron Paul at 5%, Michele Bachmann at 4%, Santorum and Huntsman are tied with 2% with 3% preferring another choice and 7% uncertain.
The new Rasmussen poll also gives Cain an edge over Romney in a head-to-head between them in a two-way Republican primary battle, with Cain at 43% to Romney at 42%. Against Rick Perry in such a two-way battle, Cain tops him 54% to 29%. Likewise, Romney tops Perry 54% to 30%. With 1,000 likely Republican voters polled, 51% expect Romney to win the GOP presidential nomination, while only 17% think Cain can and 13% for Perry. In addition, 80% believe that Romney could defeat Obama in the general election, while 72% think Cain and 67% think Perry could as well. Of those claiming to belong to the Tea Party, 44% favor Cain and 32% of non-Tea Party members support Cain′s campaign. Cain also leads among Evangelicals, 36%, and Catholics, 34%.
With the latest Rasmussen poll showing Herman Cain defeating Barack Obama, we also learn other details on what is on the likely voters minds. Only 43% approve or somewhat approve of Obama while 55% disapprove or somewhat disapprove of his job performance. Perhaps most interestingly to Herman Cain and his 9-9-9 tax plan is that 53% favor a tax code that treats everybody the same. Overall, 77% believe the nation is on the wrong track with only 16% thinking we are on the right track. Good news for Republicans is that for generic Congressional races, they lead Democrats 42% to 39%.
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October 17th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
9-9-9 is OK but I would be even happier with plain old 9-9
October 18th, 2011 at 4:51 am
Cain is a straight shooter. Many like that. I know I do. In one of his debates he said those who were harm by the liberal policies should be involved in making new policies. He had me at that idea. He is a great threat to the Democrats. If Cain wins and turns this country around, many minority economic lives would improve and the minority vote would leave the Democrats. Democrat know this so they are going to Demonize Cain and try to ruin him. The media will do their best to smear Cain.