By Chris Baltimore
LA MARQUE, Texas Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:54pm EDT
LA MARQUE, Texas (Reuters) - With only 10 days to look before the first vote in the 2012 elections, Republican presidential contender Herman Cain on Tuesday took the stump around an unlikely place: a dog-racing observe southern involving Houston.
The ex - Godfather's Pizza CEO features rocketed to the travel involving Republican polls using a non-traditional plan based on his "9-9-9" want to renovate the actual U.S. taxes code.
"The matter about growing that will the top on the polls can be you have shot with a lot," Cain instructed a Tea Party rally at Gulf Greyhound Park. "But the discomfort by no means felt therefore good."
Cain, a new straight-talking Tea Party favorite, offers touted your "50-state" approach in order to succeed nationwide attention by means of criminal court occurrences over the country along with press appearances.
His top rated contenders possess guided toward the particular early-voting states connected with Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and also Florida that probable will choose the Republican nominee.
"We have a national strategy," said Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon. "It's not devoted to a few states, but instead it's actually a nation's strategy."
Cain's plan pitfalls dropping important says and leaving him driving his main competition Texas Governor Rick Perry as well as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
"When you might be preaching about this caucus as well as primary time you probably ought to give attention to the actual says as they surface throughout order," reported Tim Hagle, your political technology mentor in the University with Iowa.
At Tuesday's event, Cain seated during a table along with closed copies associated with his most current book, "This Is Herman Cain! My Journey into the White House," a new stone's dispose of on the starting up gates.
Before a guests connected with with regards to 3,000 people, numerous donning cowboy hats, Cain appealed in order to a couple of bedrock conservative Texan values firearm possession and Christian values. "I similar to my markers and my own Bible," Cain said.
Cain's reserve expedition has obtained the pup for you to Illinois and Tennessee, with puts a stop to like Texas, Arizona and Alabama, kilometers through any early-voting state. His next prepared getaway to Iowa is usually November 19, in accordance with this advertising campaign website.
"As a great observer from the Iowa caucuses, I will say, boy, I don't believe it is visiting work," Hagle said. "But he's performing quite well while in the polls."
A fresh CBS/New York Times poll showed Cain major your Republican area using 25 percentage support, taken by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at 21 years old percent and Texas Governor Rick Perry at 6 percent.
Cain spoke about the similar day of which Perry offered your wide economic plan for Americans to cover a toned twenty percent cash flow levy rate. Earlier from the evening Cain elevated eye brows when his marketing launched a curious YouTube movie exhibiting his campaign office manager using tobacco your cigarette. Cain did not really talk about every associated with his Republican opponents for the duration of their speech, heaping criticism as an alternative on President Barack Obama.
Iowa Republicans will hold their particular caucuses, conferences where party members create their particular choice for any nominee to oppose Obama's re-election bid next year, on January 3.
"Since he did hence properly at the pizza parlor, possibly they is capable of doing great for the White House," mentioned Joe Snoe, exactly who driven from Cleveland, Texas, to find out Cain speak. "He appears like they've expressing just what exactly he or she means."
(Additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle in Washington; Editing by simply Jackie Frank )
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