The surge of businessman Herman Cain has now shown up in more than just horse race polling: a new CNN poll shows that 33 percent of GOP voters in their survey said that Cain was the best Republican candidate to get the economy going, with former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney in second with 26 percent. A month ago, Cain was only at 4 percent, as the then-frontrunner Texas Gov. Rick Perry pulled 35 percent of Republicans on the issue. Now only 16 percent think the same about Perry.
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