“Politicians, they don’t want to throw out the current tax code and put in something that is simple and fair,” he said.
Analysts say Cain has risen in the polls because conservative Republican voters are still looking for an alternative to Mitt Romney.
Tom DeFrank is Washington bureau chief for the
New York Daily News
and a regular analyst on VOA’s I
ssues in the News
program.
“He is a personification of a protest by the most conservative elements of the Republican party, who need a standard-bearer because they don’t like Mitt Romney who has emerged as the frontrunner but one who is viewed with a lack of enthusiasm by especially the Tea Party activists and the evangelicals [Christians],” he said.
Perry is now trying to regain his footing and offer a stronger challenge to Romney, but political strategist Matthew Dowd, an analyst for ABC News, says the tensions between the two men could turn off voters.
“It does not help the Republicans to have this kind of fight, especially how personal it got. That helps Obama. But President Obama is in a difficult spot and he knows it because of the state of the economy,” said Dowd.
White House officials have focused most of their attention on Romney of late, signaling that they believe the former Massachusetts governor remains the most likely Republican nominee to face President Obama next year.
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