Applies to the candidate chosen at the Republican National Convention in 2012 to run as the Republican Candidate for President in the 2012 US Presidential Election, in which delegates of the Republican Party will choose the party's nominees for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States. The convention will be held during the week of August 27, 2012, in Tampa, Florida at the St. Pete Times Forum.

Radio host, businessman and former United States Senate candidate Herman Cain of Georgia began a movement for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for President of the United States shortly following the 2010 midterm elections.

Although he was frequently mentioned as a possible candidate, Cain stopped short of a full-fledged candidacy before the beginning of the year. His entrance was tied to his public image, which characterized the candidate as "inexperienced," but a Washington outsider.

Cain spent a considerable amount of time campaigning throughout the early primary states (particularly Iowa and New Hampshire) for most of 2010.

Nearly two weeks after the beginning of the year, Cain filed his organization with the Federal Elections Commission as an exploratory committee, under the header Friends of Herman Cain. Cain is a supporter of the Tea Party movement, and the gold standard. He survived cancer in both his colon and his liver in 2006, and is currently cancer free.

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