On the Trail: Oct. 25

Obama hits the West Coast; Cain tops another national poll.

Barack Obama - President Obama is on a three-day swing through Nevada, California and Colorado, where he is promoting economic initiatives and attending campaign events. Sounding more wistful than in the past, he said in remarks at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino Oct. 24, “That old ‘Hope’ poster is fading. It’s getting dog-eared along the edges there. But I just want to remind all of you that we never said this was going to be easy. We never said that change was going to happen overnight.”(Photo: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Barack Obama - President Obama is on a three-day swing through Nevada, California and Colorado, where he is promoting economic initiatives and attending campaign events. Sounding more wistful than in the past, he said in remarks at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino Oct. 24, “That old ‘Hope’ poster is fading. It’s getting dog-eared along the edges there. But I just want to remind all of you that we never said this was going to be easy. We never said that change was going to happen overnight.”(Photo: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Michele Bachmann - Rep. Michele Bachmann’s entire New Hampshire campaign staff resigned, citing the Minnesota lawmaker’s national campaign advisers as the reason. In an unsigned statement issued Oct. 23, “Team NH,” as the group calls itself, said the advisers were “rude, unprofessional, dishonest and, at times, cruel.” They also said that the people running the national operation were “abrasive, discourteous and dismissive” toward New Hampshire residents. (Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Michele Bachmann - Rep. Michele Bachmann’s entire New Hampshire campaign staff resigned, citing the Minnesota lawmaker’s national campaign advisers as the reason. In an unsigned statement issued Oct. 23, “Team NH,” as the group calls itself, said the advisers were “rude, unprofessional, dishonest and, at times, cruel.” They also said that the people running the national operation were “abrasive, discourteous and dismissive” toward New Hampshire residents. (Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Herman Cain - Herman Cain’s surge in the polls continues. The former pizza executive leads the latest CBS News/New York Times poll of Republican primary voters with 25 percent. Mitt Romney was a close second, with 21 percent of voters’ support.(Photo: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Herman Cain - Herman Cain’s surge in the polls continues. The former pizza executive leads the latest CBS News/New York Times poll of Republican primary voters with 25 percent. Mitt Romney was a close second, with 21 percent of voters’ support.(Photo: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Newt Gingrich - Newt Gingrich knows he faces an uphill battle to win the GOP presidential nomination, but believes that his recent debate performances have given his campaign new life. Gingrich told the Des Moines Register that he has received more donations in the last month than in the previous three combined. And though the “elite media” may discount him, he said that his experience and solutions will help resurrect his campaign.(Photo: AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Newt Gingrich - Newt Gingrich knows he faces an uphill battle to win the GOP presidential nomination, but believes that his recent debate performances have given his campaign new life. Gingrich told the Des Moines Register that he has received more donations in the last month than in the previous three combined. And though the “elite media” may discount him, he said that his experience and solutions will help resurrect his campaign.(Photo: AP Photo/John Raoux)

Jon Huntsman - Jon Huntsman, who is banking on the New Hampshire primary to jolt his campaign and has focused all of his efforts there, got a big disappointment when former New Hampshire governor John Sununu endorsed rival Mitt Romney. Huntsman lashed out on Monday, stating that Sununu has ignored Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts and “a lifetime and record of inconsistent and liberal positions.” (Photo: Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

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Jon Huntsman - Jon Huntsman, who is banking on the New Hampshire primary to jolt his campaign and has focused all of his efforts there, got a big disappointment when former New Hampshire governor John Sununu endorsed rival Mitt Romney. Huntsman lashed out on Monday, stating that Sununu has ignored Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts and “a lifetime and record of inconsistent and liberal positions.” (Photo: Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

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Ron Paul - Texas Rep. Ron Paul dropped a five-day “money bomb” fundraising effort after the recent GOP primary debate that ended Oct. 24 and raked in nearly $3 million in small donations, CNN reports. He dubbed it “Black This Out,” tying the initiative to what he perceives is a “media blackout” or lack coverage of his campaign.(Photo: AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Ron Paul - Texas Rep. Ron Paul dropped a five-day “money bomb” fundraising effort after the recent GOP primary debate that ended Oct. 24 and raked in nearly $3 million in small donations, CNN reports. He dubbed it “Black This Out,” tying the initiative to what he perceives is a “media blackout” or lack coverage of his campaign.(Photo: AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Rick Perry - Seeking to capitalize on the positive boost that rival Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 (or 9-0-9) tax plan has given the former pizza executive, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has unveiled his own flat tax plan that would cut corporate taxes from 35 to 20 percent and give individuals the option to pay a 20 percent flat tax on their income. Perry says that “Cut, Balance, and Grow,” as the plan is called, would “unleash” economic growth.(Photo: AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

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Rick Perry - Seeking to capitalize on the positive boost that rival Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 (or 9-0-9) tax plan has given the former pizza executive, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has unveiled his own flat tax plan that would cut corporate taxes from 35 to 20 percent and give individuals the option to pay a 20 percent flat tax on their income. Perry says that “Cut, Balance, and Grow,” as the plan is called, would “unleash” economic growth.(Photo: AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Mitt Romney - Mitt Romney’s campaign has been laying the groundwork for an online social network platform, called MyMitt, that could be a formidable tool in 2012 and already has nearly 100,000 supporters, CNN reports. Barack Obama employed a similar strategy in 2008, called My.BarackObama.com, or MyBO, which two million supporters joined, 35,000 of whom generated $70 million in donations. (Photo: AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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Mitt Romney - Mitt Romney’s campaign has been laying the groundwork for an online social network platform, called MyMitt, that could be a formidable tool in 2012 and already has nearly 100,000 supporters, CNN reports. Barack Obama employed a similar strategy in 2008, called My.BarackObama.com, or MyBO, which two million supporters joined, 35,000 of whom generated $70 million in donations. (Photo: AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Rick Santorum - Rick Santorum generated just 1 percent of support in the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, down two percentage polls from earlier in the month, but in the same position as mid-September.(Photo: AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)

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Rick Santorum - Rick Santorum generated just 1 percent of support in the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, down two percentage polls from earlier in the month, but in the same position as mid-September.(Photo: AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)