Florida's Republican straw poll - Cain makes his mark

Straw polls in primary states are mostly meaningless exercises with relatively small groups of voters with individual agendas. Rarely, however, has there been a surprise like yesterday's resounding win by Herman Cain.

He is certainly considered a fringe candidate. He is politely ignored by the other panelists in the debates. Yet he has ideas, a well timed sense of humor that shows a real personality, and he is the only candidate to advocate a complete overhaul of the tax code and not haircuts around the edges.

His double digit trouncing of Perry and Romney, combined with Bachman's 1% support, was a laughable treat, short lived with almost no doubt, but still some welcome unpredictable news. So much of today's politics seems scripted sentence by sentence, quip by quip, and this certainly broke that mold for at least one day.

Is any follow up possible, or was this more of an indication that these straw poll voters are not enamored by any of the "media anointed" candidates. At least Cain will not be edged out of the debates anytime soon.