Herman Cain’s 9/9/9 plan has been favorable among American’s based on his growing support in polls, but certainly could have gone without the criticism from the other GOP candidates in Tuesday’s debate at Dartmouth.

Herman Cain mentioned in the debate hosted by Bloomberg and The Washington Post, that the solution to the economic difficulties facing the country would be solved by his 9/9/9 plan. This would throw out the current tax code and add a 9% flat corporate tax, 9% income tax, and a 9% national sales tax.

With this plan came questions from all sides; fortunately Cain had answers to all of them. Rick Santorum, the former senator of Pennsylvania, laid out his plan during the debate to solve the economic crisis. His plan to boost the economy focused around increases in manufacturing, by reducing the current corporate tax from 35% to 0% for manufacturers and processors.

Santorum implied that his bill for economic growth would pass over Herman Cain’s 9/9/9 plan stating, “The cool thing about my plan as opposed to Herman’s plan and some of the other plans out there is that it will pass and it will pass tomorrow.”

Santorum continued on pointing out the faults in Cain’s plan by asking the audience, “how many people here are for a sales tax in New Hampshire? Raise your hand,” and “How many people believe that we’ll keep the income tax at 9 percent? Anybody?”

Jon Huntsman, another candidate and former governor of Utah, also mentioned his plan to spur economic growth, mentioning a tax reform himself. Huntsman has already added a flat tax in the state of Utah, which has previously shown to boost jobs and make his state a leading one in job creation.

Although familiar with tax reform, Huntsman thought that even though Cain’s 9/9/9 plan was a catchy phrase; it may not work in practice. Huntsman states, “I thought it was a price of a pizza when I first heard it.” He also thought that unlike Cain’s plan, his own plan was actually one that’s “doable, doable, doable. And what I have put forward is a tax program that is doable.”

Herman Cain did not back down without a fight. Cain’s response to both Huntsman and Santorum was that, “9/9/9 will pass and it is not the price of a pizza, because it has been well studied and well developed.” He continued on saying, “It will pass because the American people want it to pass.”

Julianna Goldman of Bloomberg confronted Cain asking, “Bloomberg Government has run the numbers and your plan would have raised no more than 2 trillion dollars and even with that short fall you’d still be slapping a 9% sales tax on food and medicine.” Cain responded, “The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.”

Michele Bachmann chimed in with her view on the 9/9/9 plan saying, “When you take the 9/9/9 plan and you turn it upside down you see the devil in the details.” Other economic plans for the country include Rick Perry’s plan to put 1.2$ Americans working in the energy industry and plans to lay out his plan within the next few days. Mitt Romney has his “59” point plan which he discussed in the debate as well.

Hopefully Herman Cain will keep his growing support even after taking hits from many candidates. With his strong responses and standing by his 9/9/9 plan, he could continue to stay in the lead.

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This election as voters take to the polls, they may be facing two Mormons, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, fighting to reach the White House presidency.

The emblematic Times Square in New York City has a new ad with the motto “I´m a Mormon” this week.  In order to let the people know that Mormons are just like everyone else, the ad shows the slogan surrounded by a dozen people riding motorcycles, climbing mountains or just smiling.

Nowadays some Mormons occupy high political and cultural positions in society, such as the Democratic Senator Harry Reid and actress Katherine Heigl, possibly best known for her role on Grey’s Anatomy. The American author, Stephanie Meyer, known for her vampire romance Twilight is also Mormon.

There are more than six million Mormons living in the U.S., however many still consider them to be sectarians, and even polygamist despite the fact that this practice was forbidden at the end of the 19^th century.

According to the latest Gallup poll, one in five Americans dislikes the idea of voting for a Mormon politician, such as the republican candidates, to the American presidency.

Though still, as columnist George Will recently said at The Washington Post, the GOP has only five “plausible” candidates for president, and two of them happen to be Mormons.

Despite the fact that being Mormon might make these candidates a less popular choices for Commander in Chief (in a 2007 Gallup poll, 22 percent said that being a Mormon was an undesirable characteristic for a president), the odds might actually be stacked in their favor, as Mormonism seems to be having a good moment.

Some church data reveals that with great perseverance, Mormons have become the fourth-largest religious denomination in U.S., constantly growing with one million new members every three years.

Almost 200 years after the Mormonism’s creation at the West New York communities, the Church of the Latter Day Saints is ready to conquer the heart of the United States where less than half of all Mormons live.

Many Mormons hope to change the bad image of polygamy that some TV chains have spread with shows such as the HBO series Big Love. This is why they created the advertising campaign in Times Square to show the pride of about 30,000 Mormons through several billboards, ads on buses and on 24 American states channels.

Building up a more positive image won’t be easy due to the negative reaction that has caused some chapters from the Book of the Mormon, which is satirized in a successful Broadway musical of the same name.

Smoking and drinking alcohol or coffee is not permitted for Mormons. They also have to fast the first Sunday of every month and most of them usually wear special underwear designed to protect the Mormons from what they call the temptation and evil.

Mormon faith means economic sacrifices; around the 10 percent of their annual salary must go toward helping the Mormon religion. Thanks to this economy support from believers, the Mormon Church has raised its inheritance over $30.000.000 since its creation

If Mitt Romney wins his bid to get into the White House, he would be the first Mormon president.

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