Maybe Huntsman should run as an independent.

[LauraC]

Romney has about 25 percent of the vote. The talking heads are saying that's what he had in 2008. He couldn't get above 25 percent. The one candidate who has Romney type voters is Huntsman but Huntsman only has 1 percent so if Huntsman dropped out and Romney got all of Huntsman's voters, Romney has about 26 percent and that's it, leaving 74 percent to the non-Romney candidate minus whatever Ron Paul has now with his unique voters.

Romney has to figure one of the other GOP candidates will benefit, if everyone else except one goes out (not counting Ron Paul) so he's got to cozy up to another candidate so people link him and that other candidate sort of like when Huckabee and McCain formed an unholy alliance against him in 2008. Remember all of that sweet talk between Huckabee and McCain in 2007/2008?

Tell me if I'm wrong but lately people are linking Romney and Herman Cain, dropping little hints of a Romney/Cain ticket. I say Herman Cain needs to watch his back. Romney is ogling his voters now that Cain has some. There is no way in heck Romney is going to ask Herman Cain, who has the same business executive background he has, and no other experience, to be his VP. Romney needs someone who can wheel and deal with Congress and/or knows something about foreign policy. But it doesn't hurt Romney to have his people float that little gem of a rumor. So, at the same time you have the urban elite talking heads saying Cain is nice but he doesn't have the organization to get the nomination, they are floating the idea that Romney could choose Cain as his running mate (making Romney look better in the eyes of conservatives in the hope of raising moderate Romney's 25 percent if and when Cain drops out).

Now that Christie, Ryan, Pataki, Daniels, Bloomberg all said "no" to the northeast GOP urban elite media and money men, they'll fall back on polishing Romney's apple to make him more appealing to us. They will link him to likeable Cain.

Romney may be eyeballing Cain's voters to raise that 25 percent because he'd never get Bachmann's or Santorum's social conservative voters and he'd never get Perry's. You may notice when Perry stumbled in the debates, his voters went to Cain, but not to Romney. Romney did not benefit at all from Rick Perry stumbles.

You watch, in the coming weeks Mitt Romney and Herman Cain are going to be pals. Don't be fooled, Herman Cain. He just needs your voters.

[dixiegirl7]

Herman Cain is already friendly with Mitt Romney and if anything he is the one making the overtures. Do you honestly think that Herman Cain thinks he will be the nominee or is even ready to be if he is? He might like that VP spot though. If anybody dropped 'hints' about a Romney/Cain ticket it was Herman Cain himself in the debate when they asked who on the stage they would pick as VP canidate, he named Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney did not say Herman Cain or anyone else.

These conspiracy theories really get amusing. If Mitt Romney were the GOP candidate of choice his support from them might be a little stronger, don't ya think?

Also, when Perry started falling in the polls, Mitt Romney actually did go up several points so some of the Perry voters probably did switch to Romney. According to the focus group Frank Lutz did after the last debate many of the Perry voters were switching their support to Romney. Also, the 25% is among Republican voters in most cases and does not include Independents and Democrats that won't vote for Obama again which is where Romney polls very strong.