It's "Cain" not "Cane"! And you left out that, as a minister, he spent some of his free time away from his campaign preaching to African-American congregations. It is noteworthy that he did not advocate voting for himself at any time during these sermons, although the pastors of the churches occasionally did.

Paul, fixed my typo on his name. Thanks for catching that, and for adding your views. Maybe you can tell me what else you think The Wa Post story left out. For instance, what else is Cain really stressing in his campaign besides opposition to abortion and abolition of the IRS?

This is an interesting item. It certainly presents a different picture of Cain than the one I was given by the Club for Growth, through which I made a small donation to Cain's campaign.

You really can't imagine what an alternative to the I.R.S. would look like? Matt, say it ain't so! How about a national sales tax or a flat tax?

As for Georgia politics, well, all I know about that is what I learned from Erskine Caldwell.

I've heard Cain interviewed several times on the radio. He hardly comes off as some nut case. The abolish the IRS silliness is the newspaper's attempt to paint him as loony. His campaign web site promotes a national sales tax (not a value added tax) as an alternative to the current income and payroll tax system. This proposal has some real merit. Income and payroll taxes punish work and effort. And we all know what happens when we tax something, we get less of it.

Actually, Cain isn't the only high profile African-American Republican running in the Georgia primaries tomorrow. Dylan Glenn is a candidate for Congress in the 8th distrtict.

I think of one the things to look isn't so much the rural/suburban split with either Cain or Glenn, but how they do amongst younger black voters who don't either have the personal connection to the civil rights movement or who are skeptical of those groups for being the establishment and, perish the thought, not especially productive or effective these days.

While not, perhaps, quite as dramatic as the conservative shifting in, say, younger Jewish voters, this may be happening with blacks as well. No one seems willing to admit that Georgia (and particularly around Atlanta) have growing middle-class black populations and the Democrats are not doing very well in middle-America these days.

Something to look for in the exit polls if that's your thing.

Hold on there, Matt. You're putting words in Mr. Cain's mouth. What he is reported to have said, in the article you've quoted, is that he thinks it "plausible" that Planned Parenthood WAS FORMED to lower the black population, which is a very different thing from believing that the organization is today motivated by a black genocide plot. I have also read that a concern of the founders of Planned Parenthood was the rapid growth of a poor black population that would impose costs on the rest of society. I don't know if that's true, but plausible? Probably, yes. In any case, don't attribute views to Mr. Cain that he did not express.

Jack, Cain questions the past motivations of Planned Parenthood to quite an extent, even alleging, "One of the motivations was killing black babies."

He should have focused not on the evils of Planned Parenthood, past or present, but the poor decisions that pregnant teens make - and the importance of education and engaged parenting.

If Cain squeaks through the GOP primary, it will be in spite of, rather than because of, his demonization of Planned Parenthood.

He is referring to the keen and lifelong interest of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, in eugenics, and her "Negro Project," intended by her own profession to reduce the African-American population in New York and elsewhere. Some of the things she's quoted as having said are pretty creepy, and one can understand why some prominent African-Americans would be a little touchy where Planned Parenthood is concerned. But I agree that harkening back to the unfortunate history is not the most productive way for Mr. Cain to now address the closely linked problems of poverty, low educational levels, and out-of-wedlock births among African Americans, and hope he will do more. My point was simply that what Cain is quoted in the story as having said is (a) not what you said he said, and (b) not quite so loopy as you suggest.