Alexis Levinson reported on the Daily Caller website today that the latest Rasmussen poll in the United States, taken on September 26 and 27, places Herman Cain just 5 percent behind President Obama.
The poll of 1,000 likely voters shows 34% saying they’d vote for Cain compared to 39% saying they’d vote for Obama.
No other presidential pairing holds Obama below 40%, even though 76% of the Black likely voters in the poll say they’d vote for Obama and only 3% say they would vote for Cain. And, even though one-half of Republican and GOP-leaning voters do not recognize the name “Herman Cain.”
That, dear readers, is a “man-bites-dog” story that ought to make front page news all over the country. But, it isn’t. Instead, Daily Caller, a conservative political website, is reporting it.
Why? Good question.
Levinson reports Cain’s communications director, Ellen Carmichael, as saying, “To be within five points of President Obama shows Mr. Cain’s rising momentum and the fact that more and more Americans are eager for a business leader, not a career politician, to turn this country around as America
That’s a good point. But, what is really going on here, and why is it being ignored by US
Barak Obama was an obscure junior Senator when the mainstream media fell all over themselves trying to scoop him up and dish him out to America
Could the difference be that Obama is a very liberal leftist Democrat and Cain is a conservative Republican? That is certainly part of the explanation. It is the same mainstream media mindset that makes the moderate Obama-look-alike Romney the “real” GOP candidate, while the likes of Perry, Santorum, Paul, Gingrich and Bachmann are “non-electable.”
And, just a note about Bachmann, and we might add, Sarah Palin - to be sure they have flaws, but don’t they all, these GOP presidential wannabes? And doesn't President Obama himself?
But, to say Michele Bachmann is unfit to be president because she gets migraine headaches, or that Sarah Palin is too stupid (although she has the same university degree in journalism some of the mainstream media folks have), smacks of sexist prejudice, and, when we consider that these two women have been elected governor or congressperson, it could be said to be just plain offensive.
As for Herman Cain - his credentials as a businessman make Obama’s community organizing seem like comparing General Patton’s war record to Demi Moore’s CNN histrionics in favor of the abolition of “modern day slavery.”
If we wanted to be really vicious, we could guess that the fact that Herman Cain is a real Black American, something Barak Obama has to stretch for, gives the mainstream media a special affront. Black politicians should not dare to be conservative, much less Republican, and horror of horrors, a valid Republican presidential candidate.
This should be Task One for the Republican national leadership to take on. If their best chance of beating President Obama in 2012 rests with Herman Cain, somebody, thousands of somebodies, need to be shouting it loud and long all over the country. It is not the role of the mainstream media to choose the GOP presidential candidate, and the GOP needs to tell this to the world.
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