Herman Cain passe en tête!

Performance intéressante pour ce candidat très conservateur qui n'a pas la langue dans sa poche. Peut-il battre Romney? Surtout, s'il devait triompher pendant les primaires républicaines, est-il un candidat "national" pour une présidentielle? L'élection se jouera partiellement chez les indécis et les démocrates un peu plus à droite... Peut-on imaginer deux candidats noirs pour l'élection de 2012?

"Herman Cain just jumped to the front of two national polls in one day. Not too bad for a guy who was in the single digits in the GOP presidential field all summer.

Cain has risen in the polls after Texas Gov. Rick Perry faltered in Florida. He took the lead in a recent survey of GOP caucus-goers in Iowa. Now on Wednesday night he leads the GOP field in a new national poll conducted by NBC and the Wall Street Journal, one by Public Policy Polling (D) and took second in a new Reuters/Ipsos survey.

Cain is ahead of the pack in the NBC/WSJ poll with 27 percent, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney at 23 percent and Perry 16. But head-to-head matchups with President Obama tell a much different story about the 2012 Republican primary race: despite the party faithful desperately trying to find someone besides Mitt Romney, he’s by far the strongest candidate against Obama if they chose to nominate him.

Cain might not want to get too comfy in the top spot; this is third consecutive NBC/WSJ poll with a different candidate in the lead. Romney led in July and Perry led in August.

For his part, Perry has dropped more than half of his support, down from 38 percent in the previous NBC/WSJ August poll. Perry had retained high favorability ratings when he was on top, but those have fallen dramatically along with his standing within the field. Meanwhile, Cain’s favorability points are rising rapidly.

From NBC’s First Read: “Cain’s numbers are sky-high among Republican primary voters. Fifty-two percent view him favorably, versus just 6 percent who see him unfavorably. Among Tea Party supporters, his favorable/unfavorable score is 69 percent to 5 percent. And among Republicans who identify themselves as ‘very conservative,’ it’s 72 percent to 2 percent.”

Romney, for his part, remains steady, a sign that for all the volatility in the race, he’s having trouble capitalizing on it."

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