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2011-09-26 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Who can turn down free Pizza?

Posted by Fester Dark Lord of the Mongol Horde9444 2011-09-26 01:12|| 2011-09-26 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Theatre of the absurd.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-09-26 01:27|| 2011-09-26 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Cain is the man. We will be a lucky nation if he is our next president.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-09-26 05:42|| 2011-09-26 05:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Not with the media we have today. Cain wins, but the ink is about everyone else.

Posted by Bobby 2011-09-26 06:14|| 2011-09-26 06:14|| Front Page Top

#5 After Perry's meltdown, Cain was the next logical pick. I think he has what this nation needs. He has turned around 4 bankrupting businesses and has old world experience.

Posted by newc 2011-09-26 08:47|| 2011-09-26 08:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Pleaaaaase, open an elementary manual on poll methodology 101, first page, first sentence is "Straw polls are meaningless" and it is easy to prove it.

Suppose there are two options: A with 90% of the voters and B with 10%. Now, in the straw poll, only 1% of A people vote because the As don't feel it is important to vote in a starw, aka fake poll. But either because there are very militant or because there is a concerted effort 100% of Bs vote. End result is that despite being outnumbered 9 to 11, the Bs will outnumber the As 11 to 1 in the straw poll.

Understood? Now let's put straw poll results, _any_ straw poll results where they belong: in the waste basket.

Posted by JFM 2011-09-26 08:55|| 2011-09-26 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 JFM,
see quote below:
since 1979, every winner of the Florida straw poll has gone on to become the nominee.

That's the important point.

Posted by Frozen Al 2011-09-26 11:42|| 2011-09-26 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Any one of those candidates would be better than the incumbent.

That said, if Cain says Chile one more time I'm gonna turn off the TV.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-09-26 12:00|| 2011-09-26 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Frozen Al

And? It can be either because there was no organized effort or no significant militancy bias (thiis is no longer true now that we have the Tea Party) or because it was a self-fullfilinng prophecy ie people saw the winner as the most electable (between realtively close profiles). But straw pols continue to be a rotten way to investigate vote. BTW, it was the system who brought you McCain and what is his name who was crushed by Clinton in 1996.

Posted by JFM 2011-09-26 12:37|| 2011-09-26 12:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Cain is the best candidate in this field and I've believed that since day one.

Posted by Chris W. 2011-09-26 14:29|| 2011-09-26 14:29|| Front Page Top

#11 All else aside, I agree, Chris W. Cain is the right man at the right time. USA Corp. is bankrupt and someone who knows how to turn this bucket around is exactly what's needed. The happenstance of his skin color also neutralizes the race issue, or at least very effectively beclowns those who will no doubt continue sputtering about it.

I don't think the question is whether he's so much better than Perry or Romney or whoever. What matters is: can he beat BHO? I hate to emphasize his race, but if the choice comes down to two black guys, I think who's the decisive alpha male and who's the vain, finger-pointing beta male will be crystal clear. And that makes him electable.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-09-26 19:34|| 2011-09-26 19:34|| Front Page Top

#12 I hate to disagree with you, RandomJD, especially because I really like Mr. Cain's moxie. But to be an effective president one needs the political experience to play politics with the big boys and girls in Washington, and he just doesn't have that. Part of President Obama,s problem as president -- besides being wrong on all the issues and an vicious, petty ass who isn't nearly as intelligent as he's been told he is -- is that he just doesn't have enough political experience to even be aware of much of what is happening about him, let alone know how to affect it. I would br very happy to vote for Mr. Cain after he'd spent a few terms in the House, or as a state governor.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-26 19:48|| 2011-09-26 19:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Pretty much any MSM piece on the Republican candidates from now until the election is going to be a hit piece on whoever looks like the front-runner. Think of it as battle-space preparation.

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-26 19:51|| 2011-09-26 19:51|| Front Page Top

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