An ABC/WaPo survey out Tuesday shows that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s image problems are moderately increasing nationwide. A month ago, ABC/WaPo showed that 23 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the Texas Gov., while 31 percent had a negative one. That unfavorable rating has jumped seven points to 38 percent, while his favorable rating has moved to 26.
Businessman Herman Cain has a positive overall rating, 31 – 27, and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney is slightly unfavorable at 33 – 36.
The poll also shows that Cain, despite his claims that he could garner a third of the black vote against President Obama in 2012, seems pretty far from that goal thus far. From WaPo:
“Cain, who has skyrocketed into the top tier in GOP polls, claims he would be able to compete with Obama for black voters. But only 18 percent of African Americans in the new poll rate him favorably, with twice as many — 37 percent — giving him negative marks. Cain does have a better ratio of favorable to unfavorable ratings than either Perry (49 percent unfavorable, 15 percent favorable) or Romney (50 to 15), but trails Obama by large margins. In a September Post-ABC poll, 86 percent of African Americans rated Obama favorably, although at the time there was slippage in the number giving the president ‘strongly favorable’ reviews.”
