New York – Former businessman Herman Cain holds a narrow lead in South Carolina’s Republican primary, and he’s running neck and neck in Florida with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, according to two new NBC News-Marist polls.
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These two states have played pivotal roles in past Republican presidential nominating contests: Since 1980, the winner of South Carolina’s GOP primary has gone on to win the party’s nomination, while Florida ultimately decided the party’s pick in 2008. This cycle, South Carolina’s contest will occur on Jan. 21 and Florida’s will take place on Jan. 31.
“The road to the convention is going to go through these two states,” said Lee Miringoff, the director of Marist College’s Institute for Public Opinion.
How nuts are these Republicans that believe Cain is the best person to be a president? What happened to this party? Once upon a time there were worthy candidates now it’s Palin or Bachman or Cain? If this is the best they can do it’s time to consider switching parties.
If Cain runs as a VP that would really split the black vote and would probably make the Republicans a shoe in!