Tonight at 7pm in the rotunda of Low Library, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was scheduled to speak to an audience about taxes, youth, and pizza. After some waiting, CUCR President Tyler Trumbach introduced Cain, emphasizing that the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO’s experience in the business world (coupled with his campaign experience), gave him a unique voice and message. After the introduction and a short advertisement for...
...d South Carolina. While Perry has relinquished the top spot to Romney, the former Massachusetts governor’s numbers haven’t budged at all. In fact, all of the candidates have held steady for several weeks now, save one: Herman Cain, who jumped 10 points in one week and now ties Perry with an average of 17 percent support among Republican voters. Cain, a former pizza executive, happily reminds crowds that he has never held government office (which...
...With this in mind, the media could be considered the Republican candidates’ biggest enemy. Outside of the Fed-bashing Ron Paul (whose political career over the past decade is a Homeric epithet) and the Pokémon-quoting Herman Cain (whose 9-9-9 plan confirmed that simplicity, truly, is marketing gold), defeat in the Republican primary has been a matter of allowing the media to package your campaigns into a central flaw. Success, all the same, has...
...in office (please take that as a joke), you have his double waiting in action. The bad news, well Romney wants to win the election, so why would he pick himself to run with? That’s just illogical. The Wish List Herman Cain From Wikimedia Commons Oh how Romney wishes this guy knew what the conflict in Syria is. Cain could’ve been the perfect VP contender. He’s high-energy, demographically gifted (the politically correct term), and can rea...
...raises because they had already been addressed pretty sufficiently for most people. Let’s hope Rick Santorum keeps winning hearts so that he can take the White House in 2016! Vice President who? What do Sarah Palin and Herman Cain have in common? Very little, actually, but they’ve both been in the news again lately for their opinion on who Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate will be. Both Cain and Palin think that Florida Representative All...
...en to enjoy speculation. About the only thing I can say with certainty is that neither Jill Stein of the Green Party nor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, will be our next president. We can also safely eliminate Herman Cain and the Rent-is-too-damn-high guy. Florida: In the words of Rick Hasen, “Florida is doing all it can to become the next Florida.” The Sunshine State just recovered from a series of controversies over attempts by its Rep...
...headlines today about Wall Street, one cannot ignore the endless chatter within the media about the upcoming 2012 presidential election. Taylor Thompson (15) gives his own take on the elections, focusing on the rise of Herman Cain, who has recently become the new favorite of political satirists. Jordan Kalms (12) analyzes the rising influence of these political satirists on the mainstream media and the American public at-large. Neither the satir...
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