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The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows Herman Cain to be leading the Republican field â€" Cain 27, Romney 23, Perry 16. But Cain's rise is about to end. His campaign has peaked.
 
He has enough momentum to go along till February, maybe, but possibly not enough money. And attitudes of the other Republican candidates toward Cain suggest he will not be gaining more money ahead.
 
Cain is primarily a motivational speaker of the kind that appears throughout the heartland advertised in local newspapers, featuring clear-thinking egotism and a positively-charged guy like Cain along with a sunny preacher, a retired football player and a simple message. As Jon Huntsman said, 9-9-9 sounded like the price of pizza. When I first heard it, the Subway five-dollar footlong jingle came to mind.

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