{"id":50452,"date":"2011-10-18T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2011\/10\/18\/top-one-word-reaction-to-cain-is-a-number-9-9-9\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:48:22","slug":"top-one-word-reaction-to-cain-is-a-number-9-9-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2011\/10\/18\/top-one-word-reaction-to-cain-is-a-number-9-9-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Top One-Word Reaction to Cain Is a Number: 9-9-9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Americans are asked to describe Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in a single word, they most frequently offer a series of numbers: \u201c9-9-9.\u201d Cain\u2019s tax proposal is mentioned more often than his background as a businessman.<\/p>\n\n

For Mitt Romney, the most frequently used single word is his religion \u2013 \u201cMormon.\u201d And the most frequently offered word for Rick Perry is his home state \u2013 \u201cTexas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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The latest survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The W<\/em>ashington Post<\/em>, conducted Oct. 13-16 among 1,007 adults, finds that many Americans are unable to come up with words to describe the three GOP candidates. Nearly half (46%) did not offer a one-word description of Cain, 44% did not offer a word to describe Perry and 37% did not have a one-word description of Romney.<\/p>\n\n

About as many use positive words (12%) as negative words (14%) to describe Cain. For Romney, 21% use negative words while 11% use positive ones. And for Perry, 25% use negative descriptors compared with just 6% who use positive ones.<\/p>\n\n

Even among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, more use negative words than positive words to describe Perry (19% vs. 9%). For Romney, about as m<\/p>\n\n

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any Republicans use positive descriptors as negative ones (18% vs. 15%). Among the three GOP candidates, Cain is the only one who draws many more positive one-word reactions than negative reactions among Republicans (22% vs. 5%).<\/p>\n\n

The choices and order of the top words are fairly similar for both the general public and Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Among Republicans, the top descriptors for Cain are \u201cbusiness\u201d and \u201c9-9-9\u201d; for Romney \u201cMormon\u201d and \u201chealth care\u201d; and for Perry, \u201cTexas\u201d and \u201cconservative.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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