Herman Cain under the gun in tonight’s CNN-Las Vegas debate

If you watched Herman Cain's performance on Meet The Press last Sunday and are an undecided Republican voter, we're not certain if you would feel more or less enthused about the new co-front runner (a new CNN survey has Cain just one percentage point behind the man still considered to be the inevitable front runner, Mitt Romney).

Actually if you're an undecided Republican voter, you're in the majority. That same CNN poll shows that only 1/3rd of those polled actually have a candidate at this point.

But the bigger question that hopefully the moderators of tonight's CNN televised debate from Las Vegas (8 p.m. EST) is one posed by Politico today: How serious is Herman Cain about really becoming President?

This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.