Where’s the bounce? Herman Cain trounced all the other candidates in the Florida Straw Poll Saturday the 24th of September and the very next day CNN carried the results of one of their polls that headlined Romney and Perry as still leading the pack. While Perry led this poll, Romney was seen as the winner against Obama. The poll was conducted Friday through Sunday following the most recent GOP debate. But it was published in prime media time – Monday, September 26th at noon.
Polls confirm reality, right? Wrong. They are some of the most powerful media tools to sway opinion. We take polls as gospel yet we do not know how any of them were set up. So where were the interviews of Cain after his win? Difficult to find. And today – 2 days after his win just Google “News Herman Cain September 27 2011 and, well, not much there.
ABC early this morning published their take on Greta Van Sustern’s interview of Sarah Palin on Fox September 27th that saw the shadow candidate refer to both Governor Christie and Herman Cain as “the flavors of the week” GOP candidates. She says it’s “late” but that she could still beat Obama. In that CNN poll above, Cain and Palin garnered the same percentage of the vote 7%.
So Cain is back to being a little lower than the angels, warming up in the bull pen waiting patiently for his next opportunity. A thoughtful, composed and talented CEO, only Cain is perhaps the only candidate to date that does not bring discord to the party. Perhaps because he has been overlooked, he is generally thought to be a good possibility but he needs to turn possible into probable soon.
arlenearmy
September 28, 2011
Darn right Palin marginalized Cain. Did you hear her call him
HERB Cain. That’s right, she said HERB Cain!
Of all the GOP candidates Herman Cain has the simplest pronounced name. And she wouldn’t get that right.
Even though I got some issues w/Cain regarding his not be challenged enough, but for goodness sake, I do know how to pronounce his name.. and Im not even a paid analyst.
samhenry
September 28, 2011
LOL – paid analyst – good shot Arlene. I missed her calling him “Herb” so I glad you brought that info here. I cannot believe that in the end, Palin will run. She brings such divisiveness with her from 2008. Cain is anything but divisive.
arlenearmy
September 28, 2011
Not only did she call him Herb, but she said it 4 times. By the way the real Herb Cain is a hockey player.
Furthermore, you’d notice that under Palin’s name, foxnews did NOT put ID caption: “Foxnews Contributor”. Instead they put caption of: “Former Governor”. Im wondering if she still works for fox.
samhenry
September 28, 2011
Good point – that alone would enable her to run and the ID would certainly be a prelude to HOW she wants to be labeled as a candidate.
Shadowing the campaigners who have declared in a bus was creepy. The only way she could have made that look reasonable would be if she had said she was doing it for FOX.
Have you seen her on FOX lately? I think she bit the dust there. It’s back to bed for me before I have to go to Rochester for my allergy shot. This is a worse that usual season for it.