Herman Cain
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While pundits may criticize Cain for such talk, his fan base only seems to grow. His friend and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele calls Cain's surge a testament to the party's fierce anti-Establishment mood. "He has managed to outwit the smart intelligentsia of the GOP and position himself with the base, the people actually doing the voting," Steele says. If nothing else, that's a loud wake-up call for the GOP's supposed front runners.