Politics
Herman Cain: The momentum grows
As the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has come into sharper focus, an unlikely figure has emerged, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain (pictured).
A CNN poll of polls indicates that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is on top of the GOP field of candidates at 23%, and Cain is just three points behind. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was a front-runner in the national polls from late August through much of September, trails Cain at 14%. The CNN poll of polls is an average of the latest four national surveys in the GOP race. It was compiled and released Thursday.
Polling in critical early voting states indicates that Cain is statistically tied with Romney in Iowa and South Carolina and that Cain has surged to second place behind Romney in New Hampshire.
Cain is referring to is his “9-9-9” tax plan, whose catchy name has become his virtual political trademark. The plan calls for doing away with almost all of the existing tax code and replacing it with a 9% flat federal individual income tax, a 9% flat federal corporate tax, and a new 9% national sales tax that Cain would institute.