Cain lead comfortably all week, but discussion of Rick Perry's "camp problem" exaggerated both Perry and Cain mention share early in the week. Following the dust-up, Romney re-centered to his typical 20% share and Perry continued his steady decline into the middle of the pack.
On average, mention share analysis this week gives Cain a solid lead, followed by a 3-way race of Romney, Perry and, sometimes, Ron Paul.
Analysis of the mention space suggests that Cain's mention distribution has grown increasingly "purple" -- even showing a large number of "blue" mentions. This seems to be the norm for well-established candidates, which I would suggest Cain has now become:
In the coming weeks, I hope to be able to metricize both the "overall purpleness" of a candidate's mentions and their "supporter overlap" with other candidates. Also stay tuned this fall for a number of text-mining aggregations that have been in the works. And, of course, check back next Sunday for the latest Twitter Insta-polling from Take America Forward.
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