Donald Trump is surging in the national polls, but we should all know by now, what goes up, must come down. Can you say Herman Cain? That’s right. Mr. 9-9-9 himself was surging in the polls leading up to the 2012 Republican presidential primary. Rudy Giuliani was also surging in the early polls during his presidential run but that was a bust after he lost a bunch of caucuses.

According to the October 2011 survey, Cain was the first choice of 27 percent of Republican voters in the poll, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (23 percent), then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry (16 percent), then-Texas Rep. Ron Paul (11 percent), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (8 percent), then-Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (5 percent) and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (3 percent). (An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted in August of that year found Cain had just 5 percent support among likely GOP voters.)

In follow-up interviews, Cain’s supporters told pollsters they liked him because, among other things, he wasn’t a politician. The Suffolk University/USA Today pollsters heard a similar refrain from those who said they would vote for Trump. Source: Yahoo News

Donald Trump and his campaign have to face the reality — he’s not getting into the White House without Latino and black support. The Latinos unfavorable view of him is in the stratosphere at this juncture. Most black Americans remember his racist birther attack on then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.