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Leading our poll, including all the polls, in fact, and his 9-9-9 plan. in the beginning every other candidate called that plan a mistake. let's watch them gang up on him. >> reports are now out that 84% of americans would pay more taxes under his plan. >> herman, i love you, brother, but let me tell you something. you don't have to have a big analysis to figure that out. go to new hampshire where they don't have a sales tax and you're fixing to give them one. they are not interested in 9-9-9. >> the state tax is an apple. we are replacing the current tax code with oranges, so it's -- it's not...

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Present the ability to broaden his issue terrain a little bit. he had been the tax man. the 9-9-9 plan. that had defined his candidacy. i don't think he demonstrated his ability to go in depth on other issues. i feel like he started fading into the background a little bit when the conversation turned to romney, perry and specifically health care. >> yeah. what was he going to do? jump in the middle and say what about me? these two were focused on each other. >> i'll say this, tamron. in multicandidate fields, when a attacks b and b attacks a back, candidate c is usually benefits in these deals...

Ever hired an illegal, so that was carefully parsed, okay. >> right. >> so, yeah, and that's -- that's the whole -- that's the whole game. >> he didn't get out of the corner when people were looking for work and pick them up. he had them brought to him. going into the debate much of the focus was on herman cain leading our poll, including all the polls, in fact, and his 9-9-9 plan. in the beginning every other candidate called that plan a mistake. let's watch them gang up on him. >> reports are now out that 84% of americans would pay more taxes under his plan. >> herman, i love you, brother, b...

Brown cutting and pasting part of an elizabeth dole campaign speech into his personal message on his congressional website. the idea of the three 9% taxes was used in the sim city virtual reality game, as you can see in this screen grab from the 2003 edition. joining me now is sam stein, plinth political reporter for the huffington post. sam, congratulations to the huffington post for getting to the bottom of the 9-9-9 plan, where it came from. it doesn't get stranger than this in the politics of economics in our country, to have -- >> no. >> -- to have that screen grab being relevant to the s...