Politics
Herman Cain’s poll numbers take a beating
He has also acknowledged his wife was unaware of the relationship until it grew into a media firestorm last week, and is expected to make an announcement on whether to continue in the race at an event later Saturday.
The explosive sexual allegations, and past stumbles on major foreign policy issues, made Iowans less eager to meet Cain in person.
While the candidate saw 22 percent of caucusgoers say they wanted to meet him face-to-face during a two-day rolling average of Sunday Monday polling, that number dropped to eight percent for Tuesday Wednesday results.
“You have to know all the issues, foreign, domestic everything,” poll respondent Carol Bohlen, 61, told The Des Moines Register. And she added: “I just feel there’s too much coming out about his past, and I don’t think that would be very presidential.”
Selzer & Co. of Des Moines conducted the poll of 401 likely Republican caucusgoers November 27-30. The poll, due to be released in full at 7:00 pm EST has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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