Politics
Herman Cain continues to defy the odds
“What I find interesting is that Mitt Romney continues to have 75 percent, 80 percent of his party looking somewhere else,” said David Plouffe, President Barack Obama top reelection campaign strategist on Sunday.
“I make two points about him. One is, he has no core,” Plouffe told the NBC television program “Meet the Press,” rattling off a long list of issues where Romney has changed his stated views from abortion to climate change.
“You get the sense with Mitt Romney that, you know, if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue, to win an election, he’d say it.”
Observers meanwhile question whether Cain could suffer the same fate as Texas Governor Rick Perry, who soared to the top of polls after entering the race in August, but who since has plummeted like a lead balloon.
Perry in Sunday’s poll received just seven percent support, putting him in a tie with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for fifth place.
The telephone survey of 400 Republicans likely to attend next year’s Iowa caucus vote was conducted between October 23 to 26, and has a margin of error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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