Herman Cain Moves Up, Rick Perry Falls Down in New Poll

Submitted by Kevin Derby on October 5, 2011 - 9:19am

A national CBS News poll released late Tuesday found that businessman Herman Cain, who won the Presidency 5 straw poll in Orlando last month, has moved up dramatically in the last two weeks and is now tied with former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts to lead the pack of presidential hopefuls. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who led a CBS News poll from two weeks ago, has dropped to third place.

Romney and Cain garnered 17 percent each. Two weeks before, Romney took 16 percent and Cain stood with 5 percent. Perry, who led with 23 percent two weeks ago, stood in third in the new poll with 12 percent.

The rest of the field trailed in single digits. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingirch was in fourth place with 8 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas with 7 percent. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota garnered 4 percent while former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania took 3 percent. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah lagged behind with 1 percent.

The poll of 324 like Republican primary voters was taken from Sept. 28 through Oct. 2 and had a margin of error of +/- 3.6 percent.

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