Zogby: HERMAN CAIN Leads GOP US Primary Results
Ok, it’s an online poll. BUT STILL. HERMY!?! The guy who admitted after severely gaffing it on Fox that he didn’t know enough about Palestinian demands. That was after blasting Obama about his positions on Israel. Wow. I guess his showing in the first South Carolina debate was the kicker.
The results of a new IBOPE Zogby Interactive poll, conducted from May 20-23, show Cain, a businessman and radio talk show host who drew attention at the first party Presidential debate early this month, as the choice of 19% of GOP primary voters. Christie, the New Jersey Governor who led in our four previous polls, is second with 16%, followed by Mitt Romney in third with 11%.
Romney is now seen as a more acceptable candidate to Republican voters than he was in our interactive poll conducted from May 6-9. Then, 27% of GOP primary voters said they would never vote for Romney compared to just 9% who say so now. Romney remains the candidate GOP voters believe most likely to be the nominee with 37%, and no one else gets more than 6%.
Christie does best in a match-up with Obama, but trails, 45%-44%. Obama leads both Romney and Tim Pawlenty by 45%-40%. Obama is ahead of Cain, 46%-38%.
Christie still hasn’t said whether or not he’s running, but that’s quite a number for someone who hasn’t been getting a lot of attention, other than for being a mystery candidate. Maybe that’s to his benefit.