However, contrary to what the writer of the Mercury News says, Herman Cain isn’t as dead as the pundits think. He took a body blow from the media and serviced to continue his questions for the nomination.
It’s still wide open for a true conservative to emerge.
Mercury News
In July, it was Michele Bachmann; in September, Rick Perry, and in October, Herman Cain. Now Newt Gingrich is poised to be the ascendant Republican presidential candidate of the month -- or perhaps a lasting contender, if his past isn't held against him.
As former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has held relatively steady in the polls, the Minnesota congresswoman, Texas governor and former Godfather Pizza CEO have taken their turns near the top. Cain is there still, but recent sexual harassment accusations may be taking their toll; his days at the top of the roller coaster seem numbered, and Bachmann and Perry are waving a welcome to him from halfway down.
Recent polls show a modest surge for Gingrich, the wonkish former House Speaker from Georgia, pushing him ahead of Perry with Romney and Cain still ahead. It's been a long slog back to double digits for Gingrich -- he'd seemed to have shot himself in the foot right after declaring candidacy in May, both by criticizing the Paul Ryan budget plan beloved by many in the GOP and by fumbling his response to a Tiffany jewelry credit line that was seemingly at odds with his fiscally conservative image.
"I always felt that Newt Gingrich was going to get a blip and be in second or third place coming into the primary season in January," said Judy Lloyd of Danville, a campaign and public policy strategist, vice chair of the Lincoln Club of Northern California and a former Bush Administration Labor
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