Cain had no real campaign operation, but in an inverse of the baseball tale, as long as Cain came along, followers believed they could surely build it.
Plus the 9-9-9 Plan is a transitional plan, meaning that the rules are supposed to change again as Cain moves the country to a complete sales tax regime.
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As Cain was faltering amid accusations of sexual harrassment, Newt Gingrich was the last conservative to slingshot past Santorum, taking a lead over Romney in polls in November and December.
Avoid making defensive or evasive statements and especially giving false information, as Herman Cain appeared to do.
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As for Cain, his GOP brothers and sister trashed his trademark 9-9-9 tax plan well enough to raise doubts among Republican voters than it could well raise their taxes.
Not only that, but the available data on his overall Web presence suggest that Gingrich isn't getting as big a bounce from Republican activists as Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann, prior beneficiaries of the "anybody but Mitt Romney" effect.
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Just as likely, Cain may spare himself and his family more public embarrassment.
Washington has written off Herman Cain as a lightweight whose day is done.
Prediction: The Republican Ticket on the 2012 Presidential ballot will be Rick Perry, with either Bachmann or Cain as the veep.
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Herman Cain as an example of winning leadership skills?
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The other returning players include Leilani Mitchell, Alex Montgomery and Kelley Cain, as well as camp invitee Loree Moore, who spent five seasons in New York from 2005-09.
Meanwhile the Guardian's Jon Ronson is bemused that after concluding his whole family are ambiverts - which Cain defines as a mixture of extrovert and introvert - the group barely gets a mention in the book.
Herman Cain's turn as overnight sensation was already done, but his exit could still be important.
It certainly seemed Cain thought so, as his responses and even awareness of these documented charges shifted by the hour.
How do we know that Cain thought of Abel as his sheep?
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Brian Domitrovic, Charles Kadlec, and Nathan Lewis, and Tea Party leaders like Herman Cain and his advisors such as Richard Lowrie.
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One experienced, successful businessman: Cain, who also served as President of the National Restaurant Association and Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank.
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But Mr Cain has seen his position as a leading candidate slip in recent weeks after allegations of sexual harassment and a 13-year-long extramarital affair came to light.
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Even such Cain-and-Abel types as Raymond Hood, a hard-drinking visionary architect, and John Todd, the authoritarian teetotaller that Rockefeller hired as his chief developer, became good business buddies.
On the right, nativist voices in last year's primary campaign gave birth to phrases such as "electric fence" (Herman Cain), "self-deportation" (Mitt Romney) and other nuggets that turned Hispanic voters off.
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To continue the interpretation, the story of Cain and Abel may be taken as an illustration of the zero-sum game of primogeniture, as well as an allegory for the slaughter of nomadic pasturage by urban agriculture.
They stayed in touch, and as Mr. Block hooked up with Mr. Cain, he occasionally turned to Mr. Lowrie for economic advice.
Over the weekend, we were treated to a smorgasbord of self-justification from Herman Cain and Jerry Sandusky, who, as they spiral downward and hopefully out of the public eye, seem unable to just shut up.
And, oddly enough, as Romney stalls in the polls and Perry staggers, Cain continues to rise.
Cain proved that economic growth trumps austerity redistribution as a winning political narrative.
Only if he manages to undermine his own image, as an upright Christian and a plain speaker, will Herman Cain be damaged.
Cain represents his 9-9-9 plan as a stepping stone to the FairTax.
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So quote the talking horse they did, among them esteemed writers such as Jennie Rees of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Glenye Cain Oakford of the Daily Racing Form.
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