Health & Fitness
GOP Candidates Have Yet to Close the Deal
Candidates will step up the intensity as GOP voters refuse to make up their minds.
This new CBS poll confirms what we've discussed earlier: the new "go-to" candidate for the "Anybody But Romney" voters is Herman Cain, to the detriment of Rick Perry.
Also interesting: as we approach an early January caucus date in Iowa, candidates have yet to seal the deal with GOP voters.
Less than 20 percent of those polled said they had definitively decided who to support, and only 8 percent said Cain was the candidate most likely to defeat the president in 2012. Thirty-two percent of Republicans named Romney as the most electable candidate, while 21 percent tabbed Perry.
The implications: candidates such as Santorum and Bachmann step it up in Iowa, while Romney focuses on the "guy-who-can-win" theme and Perry searches for some major rhetoric to regain traction.