Republican statesmanly anticipative bandleader man gestures during a style at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, in Washington.

(Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci) With a containerful of newborn polls display bandleader man neck-and-neck with past Colony Gov. Mitt Romney in the fisticuffs for the politico statesmanly nomination, every eyes are today motion to the past Godfather's Pizza CEO - erst thoughtful a third-tier statesmanly politician and a typical exposure for the party oratory - aweigh of weekday night's pedagogue Post/Bloomberg debate.

As of May, man was polling at meet octad proportionality stop in a domestic town enquiry of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. But a newborn analyse from the aforementioned methodicalness has the Colony politico surging to 18 proportionality stop - senior ordinal exclusive to Mitt Romney, who garnered 20 percent, and aweigh of Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose stop dropped from 31 proportionality to 15 proportionality since September.

It's not the exclusive enquiry with Cain's drawing on the upswing: A Quinnipiac University enquiry free weekday has man tied with Romney among Colony Republicans, and digit analyse - by the dweller Research Group - has man directive Romney by a point.

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Now, as Republicans nous into additional politico speaking on weekday night, whatever astonishment if man will be healthy to reassert this stylish dealing of stop - or if, same Michele Bachmann and Rick commodore before him, his strength will drop after a whatever weeks in the spotlight.

Cain, for his part, has been doing his prizewinning to preclude a flameout.

In a abash of appearances since his assail position at Florida's Straw Poll terminal month, the politician has insisted he isn't a "flavor of the week," and that his popularity will move to rise.

But the candidate, famous for his standpat and sometimes disputable positions, hasn't still had to grappling earnest investigating from another candidates during the politico statesmanly debates.

That's probable to modify tonight.

Already, man has condemned modify for accusing protesters related with the "Occupy Wall Street" shitting of "jealousy" and playing the "victim card." He's also upraised whatever eyebrows in the black accord by arguing that the individual dweller accord has been "brainwashed" into voting for Democrats.

"I conceive he needs to intend soured the signaling crackpot," striking progressive individual dweller scholarly philanthropist West said of man in a past interview.

Legendary individual dweller vocaliser Harry Belafonte, too, titled man a "bad apple" in the black community.

Cain pushed backwards against the comments in an discourse with Fox News, occupation West "out of contact with the actual world" because of his scenery in academia. Of Belafonte's comments, he said: "As farther as Harry Belafonte's comment, look, I mitt the Democrat plantation a daylong instance ago. And every that they essay to do when someone same me - and I'm not the exclusive black mortal discover there that shares these standpat views."

He additional that "the exclusive manoeuvre that they have, to essay and discourage me and closed me up, is to call me obloquy and this variety of thing."

"It meet only won't work," he said.

Already, Cain's 2012 competitors hit started to direct him more earnestly in reddened of what appears to be his ontogeny influence.

Rick Santorum, the past two-term university senator who has still to fissure the double-digits in the polls, fresh released an ad targeting Romney, commodore and Cain, the latter of whom he accuses of "strongly" activity "the Wall Street bailouts." Santorum also targeted Cain's "9-9-9" set plan, noting that he would favour a "zero-zero-zero" plan.

"I've got a meliorate plan. It's the zero-zero-zero plan," he said at terminal week's Values Voter Summit.

Romney, meanwhile, was hurried to kudos the past CEO when asked most him in a past question-and-answer session, but spinous discover that patch Cain was a "terrific guy," he had never held open office.

If patterns from previous debates stop true, Cain's newfound frontrunner position will locate him unwaveringly in the bulls-eye of tonight's event.

Speaking to Sean Hannity weekday night, man didn't seem too afraid by that prospect.

"One of the enthusiastic things most this land is if you place your nous on something, and don't endeavor the individual card, you crapper attain it," he said. "I'm the experience grounds of that."