Factbox: Cain wins Florida Republican presidential straw poll

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ORLANDO, Florida | Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:05pm EDT

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Here are the results of Saturday's Florida straw poll ballot, with 2,657 Republican delegates choosing their favorite from among the party's major presidential candidates.

The straw poll has been considered an important test of strength for the Republican candidates in a state crucial to victory in the November 2012 presidential election.

- Herman Cain 37.11 percent

- Rick Perry 15.43 percent

- Mitt Romney 14.00 percent

- Rick Santorum 10.88 percent

- Ron Paul 10.39 percent

- Newt Gingrich 8.43 percent

- Jon Huntsman 2.26 percent

- Michele Bachmann 1.15 percent
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Jim_Keller wrote:
Yaaay! Perry is all hat and no cattle, and do the Repbulicans really need another intellectually lazy Texas Governor who has great trouble stringing complete sentences together – and – in his case believes the earth is 6,000 years old and that only Christians are fit to govern (the Dominionist movement).

Cain is intelligent, articulate, solution, rather than ideology-oriented, full of common sense, humanity, warmth, politically aware while not a pollitician and puts an entirely new face on the GOP. Also happy to see the other social issues extremist, Bachman fall deservedly to the bottom of the pact. Totally unelectrable and badly informed on history, pharamacy and so much more.

And if not ready for prime time, how about a Romney-Cain ticket??

Sep 24, 2011 6:41pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
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