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Mondays with Tony Lee: Wild Card
09.26.11 

When Herman Cain crushed the competition at the much ballyhooed Presidency 5 Straw Poll this weekend in Florida, getting more votes than Mitt Romney and Rick Perry combined, it revived Cain’s campaign. 

Here are the reasons why Cain should not be underestimated: He fits this anti-politician and anti-Obama election cycle, he knows how to speak to conservatives, and he has unparalleled success in the private sector. 

Others looked at the Straw Poll results as indicative of the field being wide open. 

GOP donors are clamoring for Chris Christie, but one has to wonder how he would survive in a Republican primary. His bluster that borders on irascibility will not cover up his liberal views on climate change, gun control, Islamic terrorism and ObamaCare. 

So again, the wild card seems to be former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. 

A national Marist/McClatchy poll shows Palin now beating President Obama among independents and trailing him by only 5 points. Further, Palin has closed the gap in the past month by talking about crony capitalism and the lack of accountability in our institutions that seems to be resonating with conservatives and independents. In that same poll, Palin does better against Obama and among independent voters than Rick Perry, which leads one to believe that she can be the candidate who can potentially square the William F. Buckley Rule and the Rush Limbaugh Rule for the Republican primary. — Tony Lee 

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