One audience member wore a black cowboy hat like the one Mr. Cain is known for. Another waved up a shiny silver “9-9-9″ license plate, a nod to Mr. Cain’s plan for tax reform. Audience members tweeted and updated their Facebook statuses as the candidate talked.
Tommy Schlosser, who thumbed out four tweets during Mr. Cain’s speech, said he wasn’t concerned that Mr. Cain never held elected office and lacked foreign-policy experience, indicating that the candidate’s outsider status made him appealing.
“One of his strengths as a CEO was he surrounded himself with smart people. He wasn’t the one hand—tossing pizzas or bottling Coke,” said Mr. Schlosser, a 31-year-old insurance salesman from Marietta, Ga., a north Atlanta suburb. “Does it matter that he’s weak on foreign policy? Maybe. But that’s why he’s got a Secretary of State.”
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