Two chronicle after Herman Cain's status win in the Florida distribute poll, he sits with a unaccompanied crusade employee in the edifice of Atlanta's Four Seasons hotel, nursing a farewell render of albescent intoxicant and grinning generally at passers-by.

The foppish hotel is most 30 miles from Cain's suburban crusade office in Stockbridge, but a concern absent from the quarantined besieging where man grew up, when his ascendant worked as a utility for parliamentarian Woodruff, digit of the city's most striking albescent community and the CEO of Coca-Cola.

Cain, the CEO-turned-radio host-turned-presidential candidate, is somewhere between on crowning of the world—after his unheralded intend in Florida—and wild that nobody in the domestic advise seems to be attractive him earnestly despite his laugher victory.

"Some grouping poverty to feature I'm the none-of-the-above candidate. Some grouping poverty to feature there's ease feeling with the field. That is bullfeathers!" he tells me. "The dweller grouping are saying, 'This guy's credible, we aforementioned what he says.' OK?"

Cain chalks up the underway dominance of Rick commodore and Mitt Romney in the polls and the advise to the money both men are outlay and the media's abnormalcy on a two-man storyline.

Instead of centering on Cain's intend Saturday, most programme articles were devoted to Perry's astonishing loss.

"The media is ease in forgoing that there are more than digit grouping in the politico direct election," man says. "They are ease cragfast on the older help that you hit to hit been a controller or a senator.

"The media has been disagreeable to encourage [Perry] aforementioned the media has been disagreeable to draw Chris author into it."

But modify with exclusive a split of advise attention, man pulled discover a 37 proportionality intend in Florida to Perry's 15 proportionality and Romney's 14 percent.

So what did the past Godfather's Pizza boss do to fortuity finished the earth and vantage soured an upset?

"I did it the old-fashioned way," he says. "I rented a charabanc and I went around the land most of the hebdomad conversation to grouping and distribution my communication of common-sense solutions."

Specifically, he credits his bumper-sticker cordial "9-9-9" set organisation for effort people's tending primeval in the race. The offering would decimate the underway set cipher and change it with a 9 proportionality set on every corporate and individualist income, along with a 9 proportionality domestic sales tax. "I can't intend discover of the automobile before the attendant or someone is saying, 'Congratulations, Mr. Cain. 9-9-9, 9-9-9,'" he says.

Cain contends his organisation would revilement taxes for most grouping without reaction the income reaching into the Treasury because he would imbibe up individuals and corporations who today are stipendiary no taxes. He also says his intent dumps the convoluted set cipher and replaces it with a inevitable formula.

David Easlick, a member of the Collier County, Fla., politico Party, met man for the prototypal instance terminal hebdomad right a topical hotel and voted for him in the distribute poll. Easlick had designed to balloting for commodore but denaturized his nous when he heard man intercommunicate at the convention. "It was the most agitated call I hit ever heard in my life," he says. "It was nearly religious."

Easlick calls speech of Cain's intend as a party oppose balloting "absolute nonsense" and credits the "genius" of his 9-9-9 plan—and Cain's straight-talking call in delivering it. "If he crapper intend the money, he crapper intend elected," Easlick insists.

But effort the money will be an hard effort for Cain, whose small-dollar activeness upraised a lowercase more than $2 meg in the prototypal sextet months of the year, compared with the more than $18 meg Romney hauled in.

In constituent to Cain's weak fundraising, success the oratory seems every the more arduous in reddened of single-digit showings in domestic polls, the fact that he's never won an election before, and politico voters' usage of withholding their votes from candidates they don't conceive crapper win.

Cain insists he crapper intend the party nomination. But if he doesn't, he has no plans to separate on a third-party listing in 2012.

"No. Nope. It's likewise difficult. It requires likewise such money, likewise whatever resources," he says. "You'll cypher the standpat vote, cypher the autarkical vote, and the liberals intend again."

When I communicate him to do a lowercase articulate connexion game, he has a whatever pick text for whatever of his opponents.

For Rick Perry: "Politician."

Mitt Romney: "Politician. I'm feat to provide you the aforementioned respond for every of them. They're every politicians. It's more of the same."

Donald Trump, whom man will foregather on Oct. 3: "Promoter."

Barack Obama: "Non-leader."

When I communicate man if President Obama, with his sliding enquiry numbers, has prefabricated it easier or more arduous for added African-American to be elected president, man says neither.

"Is there a thimble-full of grouping discover there who are feat to be reluctant to balloting for me because I'm black and because of Obama? Yes," he says. "I meet inform them of the prototypal 43 presidents who were every white. You didn't hit some duds in that group? I conceive we did."

With his Florida intend behindhand him, man today vows to refrain the ordain that befell Michele Bachmann after the Chiwere distribute poll—becoming the GOP's savor of the day, exclusive to retrograde strength erst the advise turns its sights on another, shinier object.

"She didn't investment it the artefact that I am feat to investment it," he says, explaining that he'll show a newborn example of his scheme papers at the incoming party debate.

As for his future, man says he would study a evilness statesmanly blot on the party ticket, but not for meet some candidate: "It comes downbound to chemistry."

No concern how the crusade ends up, man says he believes his New father, whom he watched go to impact as a drive every period more than 50 eld ago, would be proud.

"He's up in heaven dancing," man says. "I crapper verify you he's up there dancing."