25. rick perry s way back at 15. next, a big state, florida. it s cain leading again, another arg poll with 34% for cain. romney s down at 28. gingrich, a distant third. cain in both those races. and finally, a general election matchup in new jersey. a new quinnipiac poll has president obama ahead of mitt romney, 47/41. that s a healthy result for him in a state, of course, he has to win. we ll be right back. sodium pent that ll. [ male announcer ] whether over a cup of maxwell house. or a can of paint. you came together to vote, to share. to volunteer. and now, thanks to you, 10 communities have more to smile about. what s next? tell us on facebook.
american rather than african-american. then went on to contrast his upbringing with that of president obama. cain is reported to have said, most of the ancestors that i can trace were born here in the united states of america. barack obama s more of an international. look, he was raised in kenya. his mother was white from kansas and her family had an influence on him, it s true, but his dad was kenyan. goldberg went on to correct cain in his interview by telling him that obama spent four years of his youth abroad in indonesia, never in kenya. why, sir, is it your estimate now, this is psychobabble, to some extent, but why on earth would herman cain, a man of obvious educational background, say that the president grew up in kenya, when everyone on earth now knows that he was born in the united states, lived here all his life, hardly ever met his father from kenya, has no real actual mental roots in kenya, and certainly no experience there? well, unfortunately, the
you know, i think if it were today, my wife would vote for herman cain. one of my sons i ve got grown children from the first day said, dad, do you know herman cain? i said, sure, i ve known him since i was chairman. he said, i like him, i like what he says. and that s one of his great strengths, laura. he is likable. he does not give you the impression that he s full of himself. why are so many republicans in poll after poll saying herman cain? why so many? we ve only had this for a week nbc s got the best poll in the country and he s number one in it. he is now. listen, we were going on and on about donald trump last spring, michele bachmann seemed to be the anti-romney candidate. there is a taste, a desire, a craving for someone other than mitt romney. but as anyone has come up, they ve fallen very quickly. who s going to replace him on that job? that s my point. is he the last guy on the right standing? we haven t had a santorum bubble yet. i ve been logical abo
this guy as seceded all of them. who will secede him, who hasn t already fizzled? answer? i would say that the best bet would be a perry comeback, and then say, a newt gingrich rise. a perry comeback? yes. he has the money, he ll have the consultants, and did you watch him in the debate? oh, i think he s awful. the washington post debate, he was a groundhog. he can t stay awake. this man cannot stay awake past 8:00 in the evening. let s put perry on tv right now with herman cain. who wins the the debate? one on one? well, that s a really good question, because neither one of them have any policies to talk about. i mean, cain is certainly more personable and he s been a better debater, but do you think i ll ask you this. can he say 9-9-9 from here until election day and nothing else? we ll go in now, we ll go into the weeds with you, where you really want to go. timothy egan of the new york times describes cain s economic plan like this, in essence cain
things that are happening to president barack obama. and i m not talking about with regard to legitimate complaints against his policies. i m talking about some of the things that we ve seen here in washington with mustaches, hitler mustaches and members of congress calling him names and so forth. it s unfortunate that we have moved further but made tremendous progress the fact we re going to have this unveiling of the memorial is a statement about where we are as a country. nia, what do you think of all this as a reporter? the race of the country as a young person. i think if we could focus a little bit on herman cain, i think herman cain is on the one hand saying that we re in a post race country, but at the same time he seems to play the race card when it comes to talking about african-americans, talking about the ways in which they vote for democrats. it s not something that he would, for instance, say about white evangelicals who vote in overwhelming numbers for bush,