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Cain Tops New Poll

Perry drops to fifth in CBS/New York Times survey.

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The heat is on—and we’re not just referring to his campaign chief smoking in his new video. A new CBS/New York Times poll shows that the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza is the frontrunner in the GOP election, garnering 25 percent of the vote. In second place and 4 percent behind Cain was Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich in third with 10 percent of the vote. Rick Perry fell to fifth place with a dismal 6 percent. The survey was held from October 19 to 24, and includes the Las Vegas GOP debate. It does not, however, include Cain’s much talked about “smoking” campaign video.

Read it at Los Angeles Times

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