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Subscribe to RSSHerman Cain's presidential campaign has been raising more the $1 million a week since Oct. 1, campaign spokesman J.D. Gordon told NBC News.
That means his total fundraising this month has already eclipsed the $2.8 million Cain raised in the third quarter.
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Cool, now we'll have a race on our hands. I was wondering how Cain would compete once we move to the ad wars phase of the campaign.
In all seriousness, I do believe we're about to see an ugly phase, as well. The party establishment doesn't want this guy. They don't want the one they are backing, either (Slick Willard), but he's seen as the safest of the bunch to employ the party's conventional "are you better off than your were four years ago" campaign.
Cain better watch his back. The Romney campaign and GOP establishment will pull every dirty trick they think they can get away with now.
The one reason Romney was focused on Perry was because he's so politically conventional he couldn't imagine an unfunded campaign challenging him. Perry has money; Perry must be the competition. I'm sure there's been a lot of head scratching over Cain's rising poll numbers. But now, with confirmation that the Cain campaign is a real threat (a $million a week helps make that clear, even to guys with an absolute lack of vision and finger on the pulse), watch out Herman - the boys will be coming after you. Those shadowy fliers in Iowa are just the start. Remember these are the guys who went after McCain's non-white daughter and possible craziness in South Carolina.
With king Grovers, two jesters the koch brothers, money is nothing.
I prefer the statistic that shows how many people actually contributed to that amount of funding; much more telling.
It never ceases to amaze me how people waste their money.
and barry figures to need a billion dollars to win -- and with no help from the koch brothers. will anyone have enough money to pay barry -- oh yes, the solyndra guys, the fiskar guys, the teachers, the unions, soros... still plenty of fools that continue to believe in the hope and change scam
You can fool some of the people all of the time (Teabaggers) all of the people some of the time (mainstream Repubs) but you can't fool all the people all of the time. Or as W used to say, Fool me once, shame on--shame on you. Fool me--you can't get fooled again. I have a feeling that Cain is seen as "malleable" by the money guys, hence the bucks. Can't win tho.
so i gather you are a hope and change kind of guy? how is that working out? more unemployment than before, more poverty than before, more class warfare than ever...
I thought Cain was backed by the Tea Party?
So some of those tea party people had posters of Obama with a bone through his nose because of his fiscal policy?
Don't know about through the nose, but Obama's fiscal policy, such that it is, is insane.
Did you see Paul on MTP? He crushed Gregory on fiscal issues. He is money. Too bad on 5% of the stuff he is crazy.
Audit the Fed. Too bad it would wreck the world. A ponzi the likes of which has never been seen.
You hit the nail on the head it would wreck the financial world as it is, that is why the republican establishment tries it's best to ignore Paul, when he is actually a front runner by some measures. So how about my drive-thru shooting range, are you interested Spanky?
If there is shooting involved, great.
But, um Forrest - I am the cheapest person you know.
I am loathed to part with my money. Unless it's for one of my vices, of which I have many.
Nope, my investment plan these days is the mattress.
Europe is going down, things are going to get bad.
Man, I hope I'm wrong.
Shooting at things right out of your car! It can't miss. I have been hoarding cash my self (relatively speaking I don't have that much to hoard, but I got a big ole safe for the guns, jewerly, and important documents, and have been keeping a lot more cash on hand than ever before, mostly so that when I kick the bucket Mrs. Grump and the Grumpsters will have some to work with while insurance and investments are paid out. You know it is kind of strange to me but it seems nowadays if you go to pay for something with cash, they look at you funny and almost act like they can't accept cash as payment any more. I hope you are wrong too, cause if it gets that bad we will be screwed anyway, the money won't be any good, and we will be outgunned, if it gets to that point the family farm will be the place to be.
Sounds good, cash, check-family farm, check- lots of home canned food, check-I love this country.
I guess if winning was just a matter of money the repubs will win every election from now to forever.
Dems are no strangers to corporate Citizens United bribery, but I still suspect most of it tilts heavily in favor of the republikan party.
SO GOP - easy to google the fat stack Obama pimped out of wall street, right?
What's the matter, the truth hurt?
Whores, the whole lot. You know it.
I keep hearing how union dues support the democrats and I always try to explain how that is not dues money how it is separate, voluntary and you need signed authorization cards to collect any political action money, but my point is, now what is the point, I bet unions could now challenge all those other laws and win in the SCOTUS, due to the CU ruling. Do each of the stockholders of a corporation have to sign authorization cards to allow the corporation to donate to political causes, you know they don't. I think unions now if they wanted to could use the same ruling to raise dues and use that money politically in any way or any amount they wish, defeating long established ethical, and legal standard practices.
Don't be silly, Forrest. The SCOTUS would figure out some way to decide that unions aren't people, too.
I think each stockholder should sign an authorization card before a public company's cash can be donated to a political candidate, cause, or organization. If they don't have to why should anybody else have too. I know individual United Auto-Workers have and will donate to Obama's campaign, I just hope GM makes a big fat legal corporate donation. They owe him big time, right republicans.
true that, Forrest. GM owes Obama.
That is not a good thing. Of course the Chrysler BOND holders go the shaft, so they need to stick it to him, right?
Too late now, they should have donated sooner. In US politics you only get what you pay for, thats the law, the SCOTUS says so.
At the end of the day conservative whites will have a heck of a time voting for any black man. If Cain is the GOP nominee we will only have a chance if Paul doesn't go third party. With any conservative white man in the race Cain looses big.
Like the OWS gang right? The whitest kids around.
Diversity. Funny, and so important, right?
Other than that, you just sound like a racist. Must be GOp, eh?
GOP,
Just google it, or fact check it, go ahead, you can do it. Its not pretty for either side, and what a waste of money.
Cain is the real deal and the media won't be picking the next president, the people will. Herman Cain is the peoples choice.
He does not have enough peeps.
The people aren't going to pick the 999 pizza special.
G-d is good.
The article should correctly say "President Cain"....ooops, jumped the gun a bit...
Cain is unelectable.
As Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat might sing "He is wooking for nub in all da wrong places".
I have been GOP for 50 years and have never known any Republican who voted for or against any presidential candidate because of his race. Don't believe everything the bias media spoon feeds you fools.
Herman Cain will be our next President and liberalism will be finally thrown in the dumpster where it belongs. The Obama administration is a catastrophe and you can't cover up a turd that big.
Cain should be the Republican nominee because President Obama will crush him if he is. Please vote for Cain for president, you will be doing the country a favor.
Hope you take rejection well because my grandmother could crush Obawful...and she has been dead nearly five years now.
The man is an incompetent joke unqualified to be a janitor. That and he's black...oh did I say that out loud?
You democrats are like a wino asleep on the railroad tracks, you will never see the end coming until it's all over. I hear the Cain Train and it's picking up speed.
"George W Obushma's grandmother for the Republican Presidential nomination." A dead person is better than any of the other GOP candidates.
On Abortion: "I have come to understand that Herman Cain has in reality done far more for the pro-life movement than I ever have. For instance, he donated $1 million of his own money in an attempt to encourage black voters to vote pro-life. His 2004 Senate campaign made life a central issue. His work opposing abortion – especially among the black population – has led many leftist organizations to denounce him with hysterical, shrieking screeds; which is probative evidence of the fact that they were to some degree effective."See more at source:www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/10/21/a-mea-culpa-on-herman-cain-and-abortion/
Yeah, Jonathan, I think he's got a shot to pull this abortion mistep damage control off. He wouldn't, except the alternative is the bigger flip flopper on abortion. So, maybe.
Remember Cain's support is primarily from the tea party, which isn't necessarily pro-life. If I had to guess, I would guess more people who define themselves as tea partiers are pro-life than not. But that's a movement based on anti-establishment drive, taxes, and fiscal responsibility. It could be morphing into something of a pure Republican issues kind of thing. I found it interesting when the tea party seemingly came down so hard on illegal immigration - seeing as its roots are with Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party, both of which are for open borders. So some morphing has taken place. Still, I don't think the tea party can be described as primarily focused on social issues.
How he gets by not really having a mature organization in place... don't know. That's what will probably be the bigger threat to his chances than this abortion mistep. I read last night that party members in Florida who want to be on the 'Cain Train' are not having their calls returned, and there's some disagreement over whether the guys who say they are running Cain's Florida campaign are really just over-enthusiastic volunteers. In typical cycles, that's the stuff that kills you (as Ron Paul ought to know). This isn't a typical cycle, so we'll see.
Cain is laughing all the way to the bank .He knows that as a black man there isn't a chance that he could ever get the GOP nomination as a contender.He is piling up the money and continues to make silly statements that everybody[except him] wants to believe. He has no expertise in government at any level so why would the country vote for him. IT AIN"T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!