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Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain campaigns outside of Kinnick stadium in Iowa City, Iowa, on Oct. 22.
DES MOINES, Iowa—The two candidates who least frequently visit Iowa are currently leading in the race to win the state's January caucuses, the new Des Moines Register poll showed Saturday evening.
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain leads the Republican presidential field in the Hawkeye State, narrowly surpassing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the top spot, according to the poll conducted this past week.
The highly regarded Iowa Poll shows Cain with 23 percent and Romney at 22 percent among likely caucus-goers ahead of Jan. 3's caucuses, the first nominating contest of the 2012 cycle. Cain has seen his stock rise by 13 percentage points since the last edition of the poll; Romney only dropped one percent despite the fact that neither candidate has visited Iowa more than once since the weekend of August 12th.
The advantage for Cain and Romney seems unusual in a state that typically prides itself on retail politics.
"Iowans seem to be saying 'we've tried politicians, it's time to shift gears and try a CEO to run our country.' The more desperate our country's financial situation, the more voters are looking for someone from the business world who can turn this ship around," said Steve Grubbs, Cain's Iowa state chairman.
As a matter of comparison, Romney led the field — at 29 percent - to former Arkansas governor and eventual caucus-winner Mike Huckabee's 12 percent in the October 2007 edition of the same poll.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul places third in the Register’s poll, with 12 percent, followed by Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann at 8 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry tied at 7 percent, former Sen. Rick Santorum at 5 percent, and finally former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at 1 percent.
The Iowa Poll suggests a slight shift within the margin-of-error in the race for Iowa's caucuses since the NBC News/Marist poll was conducted at the beginning of the month. Romney led at 23 percent to Cain's 20 percent in that poll, conducted Oct. 3-5.
Iowa campaign embed Alex Moe talks about the new Des Moines Register poll that has the two candidates who rarely come to the Hawkeye State in the lead.
Bachmann, who is staking her campaign on Iowa, has dropped 14 percentage points since June and into fourth place. This news comes after winning the Ames Straw Poll and spending a lot of time in the state, including recently expanding her staff here.
"Poll numbers have bounced up and down on weekly, sometimes daily basis. We’ll see much more of that before caucus night but one thing I’m convinced of is that Michele Bachmann will come out on top in on Jan. 3," said Bachmann's Iowa campaign manager Eric Woolson.
It has been four months since the Register released its last poll. The June poll had Romney leading in the state with 23 percent—just in front of Bachmann, who jumped in the race two days after the poll came out, at 22 percent. Perry had yet to throw his hat in the ring.
Though Perry joined the race just over two months ago, both he and his wife, Anita, have made quite a few trips here, yet Perry is tied for fifth place with Gingrich.
Perhaps the most disappointing showing, at least in terms of time spent in Iowa, has to be for the former Pennsylvania senator, Santorum. He will be the only candidate to visit all of Iowa’s 99 counties as of Wednesday, but still remains at the bottom of the poll.
The Register’s poll was based on telephone interviews Oct. 23-26 with 400 likely Republican caucus-goers, and has a margin of error plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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Do you think Herman Cain might be their VP choice? He'd be like, the Black Joe Biden, because he says stuff... "electrified fence," stuff like that
Cain's not as good a VP choice for Romney as would be Huckabee.
Cain could be appointed to Commerce or Treasury though. I think if Cain wins, he may want Romney as his VP though.
Ya, I could see that, they make a pretty good pair one way or the other
Cain is like the guy playing poker with someone else's money - does not really have any skin in the game so takes bigger gambles and it pays off...do you think he really wants to be President with some of the commercials he has out there with his advisor smoking a cigarette - it is as if he is purposely trying to make mistakes. I bet he goes to bed every night thinking all I wanted to do is sell my book, but the Presidency will be a nice payday bonus! Sometimes when you don't try so hard, the favor is in your corner!
stinky- Good name for you by the way. Explain this socialist agenda? The same programs have been in place for decades but now they are SOCIALIST? LOL Cain is a Koch bro shill, he worked for them, and is still working for them. He has no real campaign org behind him. This is a side show, at the GOP circus! And I do love a good circus, lot's of clowns under the bigtop!!!!
Koch/Soros blah blah blah. Yes, all forms of welfare are socialist & GW Bush was too liberal because he pandered & spent too much under the pressure of the media. Obamacare is pretty much Greece, USA.
Sent Harry Reid & Oblamer to Greece where they belong. We need a man who can run a budget so we don't continue into bankruptcy.
Big- So healthcare reform is bad why? Why should for profit health insurance be wanted, talk about death panels. People being kicked off for pre-existing conditions. These Co's have been jacking up healthcare costs for years, blaming it on (Obamacare) there are no facts to back that up. We have a neighbor that was layed off and after almost a year, found another job, one month in a health crisis, no insurance 500,000 in hospital bills, at 57 years old had to declare bankrupcy. This man has always worked and his wife too, have grown kids one in the military, grandkids, had to get into his 401k to pay bills and buy medication. There are stories like this all over the US. Please turn off the faux noise! Stinky- I noticed no real comment on my post, just a lame joke! Like you!
if there is a moron on this page - stinky you are stinking it all up - obviously if it is not spelled to you, it is too much for you to decipher...stop eating your boogers now and go to bed.
Cain to the Republicans is the ultimate dark horse, no pun intended, His sole purpose is to siphon off as many black votes as possible from Obama. Do any of you out there, who are dyed in the wool Republicans think, that Cain will be the ultimate Republican candidate. Two black Presidents in a row would give the Republicans a hissy fit, we would have to open up fifty more insane asylums to accomodate the ultra conservatives. Cain is not a stupid man, and he is playing his new found glory for all that it is worth. No matter where he ends up on the political scene he will have it made and may rival Oprah on the entertainment media. He will end up with two hundred more Pizza outlets across the Nation, book deals and speaking engagements galore. President, he knows better, it will never be. Sorry to dissapoint all you Republicans who think different. Cain is playing the ultimate con on you.
The Koch Bros. must be frantic about another "black man" running for office. These brothers should be exposed to the world for the evil the spout and pay for. America watch out. As these tea-begger Christians hear every Sunday, they should remember what the bible says about the "anti-christ" and how he will appear. He is walking among them now.
Obama is the anti-Christ?
Its Mittt pure and simple - sorry Tea Party and Christian right!!!
With his false image of an ordinary Joe, Uncle Tom is fooling quite a few gullible voters. In reality, he's just another wealthy teabuffoon out to widen the gap between the rich and poor in the US. Sociopaths can be quite adept at deception and manipulation, but I hope people see through Uncle Tom's artificial charm and fictitious common-man persona.
I beleive the right wing nut jobs have the racist label all to themselves.
Perry shot himself in the foot when he announced that illegals receive education in Texas at a discount before American citizens.
Perry go home and take care of your illegals, and, yes you are right I have no heart when it comes to illegals.
He didn't say that. They just get in state tuition just like all other American citizens living in Texas. The children of illegals born in America are American citizens and therefore Perry was just upholding the law by letting them have in state tuition. People need to listen to what candidates really say instead of the MSNBC or FOX news spins.
Amazing how the left is the side who desperately points out the skin color of a candidate instead of judging by the content of their character... They are so afraid of Cain they have to continue to spew their hate and hope the hapless media prints it as fact. You are all weak.
A lot of people have math degrees which means they are very left brained. A left brained person does not make for a good leader.
Nor does a community organizer freshman senator.
So stinky libtard, you would actually vote for the sob that ran fed res in KC.
Man...you really are stupid !!!
Lots of you on this forum are scared of 'ol Herman because he is smart, and he is a real thinker. Some things a lot of folks are afraid of, and should be. He will do well, and eliminate a bunch of useless government pantywastes. Go Herman ! 2012 . . . . !
God bless you.
Yeah, like all the regulators on Wall street and the big banks! Everyone knows that we dont need regulations on the big boys!! We can trust them,oh yes. Republican politicians are the puppets of the big banks and the wealthy, anyone who does not realize this must be nuts.
What I find interesting is just a few minutes ago on another [local] news site showed Ron Paul the big winner. What's the truth???? Truth is the media refuses to acknowledge him in any way. What are they so afraid of??
What we are seeing is desperation. These Republicans hate Obama so bad they would vote for Charles Manson if he were running! All they have to choose from is dumb, dumber, and dumberer! It's like choosing between two bullets - the one that hits you in the front of the head or the one that hits you in the back of the head. Either way you lose!
Cain is not going to win. He will be gone after the New Hampshire primary.
Mr. Stinky Liberal, what is it with you that you can't call the President of the United States by his correct name. I came close to hating Nixon, but I still addressed him by his correct name. I didn't like the second Bush, but he was still President Bush. You don't reach that office without some kind of flack by a lot of people but the Presidency is still an honor accorded by the American people. You should have the decency to address the man and that office with some respect, no matter what you may think of him personally. Find some humility in your heart to respect the office if not the man.
One thing about it, which ever republican ends up with the nomination, you can bet the NRA will be out to support that republican candidate like they always do. It wouldn't matter if the Democrat said every person can carry all the guns they want, they will support the Republican candidate. And as far as Rick Santorum goes, we in Pa. dumped him as a senator and certainly don't want him as president.
Yep that is what we need in this country is more guns. There were not enough people killed in America last year.
Jim
Is that why Obama and Holder are supplying drug cartels with assault weapons??
RDG
You mean like Bush and Gonzales did with their version of Fast and Furious,Operation Wide Receiver?
Or how about Reagan and Bush the Elder with Iran Contra-Gate? That was drug cartels,communist revolutionaries and Islamic terrorists all in one that THEY dealt with.
R2D2. They were supplying the drug cartels with weapons in an attempt to catch Rick Perry's NRA and gun manufacturer backed gun runners who smuggle thousands of weapons into Mexico each month. Unfortunaetly, Fast & Furious did not work out. That, howeever, has not stopped the government from going after the gun runners. In fact, Rick Perry took the second most of Obama's stimulus money to create "shovel ready" jobs. The "shovel ready" jobs Perry created were that of digging more smuggling tunnels into Mexico.
Reagan got the Iranian hostages out. Carter had a bit of difficulty, didn't he? Let's see, how long was Reagan in office before the hostages got to freedom?
You're way too intensely stupid for me to even bother debating who did or didn't get the hostages out of Tehran in 1980/81 but Iran Contra Gate was going on during 1984-86 and was exposed in 1986.
So what the Hell do the hostages even have to do with it?
Man,what a really weak ass paid troll you are.
Hopefully, Cain can pull off the upset in IA. If Cain can brainwash the evangelical right wing radical cracked teanuts there more than Bachmann, he can pull it off. He should talk to Harold Camping, the preacher who got 500,000 or more of these braindead Children of the Corn to follow him and give him all of their money. Then this 9Kampf nutcase can win Iowa. Although Cain is an absolute dunce, he is still probably better than the rest of the dunces.
He will never get the Klansmen in the deep south to vote for him, unfortunately.
If you want Social Security and Medicare to be gone, Cain is your man.
Republicans want Social Security, Medicare, Public Education, the EPA and anything else supported by taxpayers, except the almighty War Machine, to be eliminated.
Jim
The Democrats have been in control of congress since '07. Obama has been in power for three years. He has started more wars than W would had ever thought to, and he still has us in the same wars that he promised to get us out of!!
Cain would be dead now if he had not been rich. The average Joe who gets stage 4 colon cancer cannot get the health care he needs to survive. Do you think Cain cares whether or not people get the same kind of care he can afford? Of course not. Obama is right. If a republican gets elected president everyone in America is on their own.
Jim
There are MANY people in the middle who do NOT want government to run our lives completely. The Democrats have ALWAYS been known as tax and spend. The Democrats have spent ONE TRILLION/yr in the red since '07. Taxing rich people would give the Democrats more money to squander and more of a deficit!
The two party system is against the best interest of America. It gives us a choice of two people, which neither is fit to be our president. Both parties are controlled by Cooporate America, Banks and Wall Street. It is your and my fault that we are in the mess finiancially because we allow these criminal to get away with blatant theft. We don't need to be led by a bunch of crooked lawyers and that is what we have. We need Doctors, teachers,Iron workers to run the counrty, people that are our peers. We need to FORCE change with what ever will make that change. Stop kissing these peoples ass and stand up for what our constitution guarantees. It won't be pretty but it is necessary or America will be totally destroyed.
The repukes have to come up with netter candidates. Here are some ideas.
Maybe. But wait until the time comes. When people finally start to realize what types of nuts are running for the repukes, things may change. So far, no job plan from the repukes. The only thing they recommend is not cutting taxes for the wealthy, raise your sales taxes to 9% in addition to the state and local taxes you pay now, and eliminate government regulations, so that the repukes corporate masters can rob and rape us once again as they did under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang.
The right wing radical cracked teanuts want to replace Obama. Here is a good replacement idea.
Michelle (never tells the truth)Bachmann and Sara (helicopter gunship pilot) Palin who is most well know for shooting wolves from the air with her blazing AK47 and turning them into instant wolfburgers) could not win by themselves and would not be good enough to run anything. But if we added a third candidate and allow 3 of the right wing radical cracked teapot nutcases to replace Obama, I would then give it careful thought. My choice for the third candidate would have to be the flying witch from Delaware, Christine O'Donnell. With Christine's insight on Creationism being the true science (she claims evolution and Darwinism can't be true because she never saw a a monkey give birth to a human) and wanting every public school child to be taught Creationism, she insures us that we will be going back to becoming a third world country.
But on the positive side, we would not have the expense of Air Force 1 anymore, as all three can share her flying broomstick.
"netter" candidates...
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Should be "better candidates"-a typo.
You mean the conservatives are going to pick their own candidates of their own choice despite (or because) of the hate the liberals have for these two guys with all their demagoguery...Go figure...
The best man the repukes have to offer. His goal is no nuthin for nobody.
Wake up call about Ron Paul. A typical, but even more crazy, right wing radical cracked teanut.
Someone has brainwashed the evangelical "Children of the Corn". Complete nuts like Ron Paul spouts off this nonsense about smaller government. He and the other idiots that think his way, want to eliminate all regulatory agencies, as he feels that the people can do things honestly without being regulated- like the republican criminals stealing from the middle class and the poor.
Don't you right wing braindead idiots know why regulations were created in the first place. It all started with the Great Depression of the 20's and 30's where the criminal republican bankers used depositors money to invest in businesses of their friends which were very risky and the stocks of companies that had false balance sheets that said they were making money while they were losing it. When the market crashed, the depositors lost their money as the banks failed. That is why the SEC was created along with the FDIC, to control republican thieves.
Now this nutcase Paul wants to eliminate FEMA. The republican governors look at Paul as a true nutcase. They are first ones to have their hands out for disaster relief help from FEMA. Even Perry has FEMA and a national contingent of firefighters send by Obama coming to help with the fires.
As time went on, more agencies like the FDA were created to stop false claims about drugs and other foods being made. Such as Coca Cola being able to cure almost any ailment. The drugs you buy today would probably kill you because there would be no control over ther labeling or their quality.
Now right wing criminals like Mitch McDumbell and Ron Paul want to eliminate the EPA. McDumbell's repuke cronies in KY overlooked over 100 safety violations at a large Massey Coal Mine. The mine exploded killing many miners. The repukes that were bought and paid for by Massey and their boss McDumbell should have been prosecuted. By eliminating the EPA, it makes it easier for Massey and others like them to more easily pollute the air and water, while having extra money saved from non- compliance to donate to McDumbell's campaign.
So when the cracked teanuts say that they want to take back the government and do what with it? Give it to those repukes who want no controls so they can rob and steal from you as they did in the past.
Life2 - All your name calling gives you so much credibility! Suck it up, LOSER!
Looks like the counterfeit scumbag and his personal uncle tom are now being groomed for the Presidency and the VP, respectively.
It is the only viable scam left for the Gestapo On Parade...
the remainder of the goper hacks are obviously toast... with a romney/cain ticket the money-men in the gop are betting they can get uncle tom to draw (deceive them) the black vote away from President Obama, and still sate enough nutcase t-baggers and elitists with his B.S. "999", rhetoric.
romney has proved himself to be a flip-flopper who has only those convictions that might get him elected..., and easily manipulated -- a true elitist puppet of wall-streeters.
personal convictions, morals, or intelligence or even knowledge of "details" are not a gop pre-requisite to be a gop candidate for President.... you just gotta be able to suck up to wall-street, and the elitists, and block all taxation and regulation of the richest.
To be a voter making less than $300,000 gross, and to vote for a scumbag republican, has got to be the stupidest things ANY voter could possibly do to themselves.... and the gop powers that be have the gall to think the black community is dumb enough to give a pass on what is clearly no more than a racist CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, the GOP.
The first rule of RIGHT CLUB is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT RIGHT CLUB
Sad that the only one of the bunch who manifests evidence of a triple-digit IQ comes in at a lowly 1%...
What good is a vote when anyone you vote for wouldn't be allowed in your own home for dinner? What good is your vote when you must chose between the lesser of two evils? What good is your vote when you don't trust the one you are voting for? Why vote for someone who you know is lying to you?
Can't always get what you want...Jagger.
I asked that question on inauguration day 2009.
Bigonza..How about NEVER get what you want? Are you satisfied with that?
What good is your vote when both candidates are working for the corporations and Big Money?
And could care less about YOU..
Yella- I bet it was really scary for you, well get a new RX because it will be FOUR MORE YEARS! LOL
YellaHammer..And the results? Were you satisfied?
Grover-- I am assuming Jim meant by real was : 1. has a real plan 2. keeps a real promise 3. has had a real job
Human windsock, way funny!