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6:00 PM ET, November 7, 2011

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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Woman: Herman Cain put hand up my skirt  —  Defense attorney Gloria Allred and her client, Sharon Bialek, held a news conference detailing inappropriate sexual behavior by GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain.  Some of the highlights are below.  We'll have more soon.
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Accuser Details Lewd Behavior by Cain  —  Michael Appleton for The New York Times  —  Sharon Bialek, left, with her lawyer, Gloria Allred, at a news conference on Monday.  —  A Chicago woman alleged on Monday that Herman Cain grabbed her in a sexually aggressive way when she sought his help …
Tony Radar / RADAR:
New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred  —  A new woman alleging sexual harassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain will break her silence at a news conference with her powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred Monday afternoon in New York City, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Cain Ties Romney Atop GOP Field  —  Republicans tilt toward position that charges against Cain are not true  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Herman Cain now ties Mitt Romney as the leader for the GOP presidential nomination in USA Today/Gallup polling on Republican preferences conducted Nov. 2-6.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
DECLINE AND FALL  —  Sometime in the future, when a twenty-first-century Gibbon searches for a moment to use as a starting point for a chronicle of American decline, he or she might want to alight on the late-October and early-November days of 2011.  Not that there is much to be gained …
Discussion: Don Surber
Michelle Malkin:
Circus Circus: Gloria Allred jumps on the Cain Train; Cain staff “welcomes” Allred to staff; Update: Accuser is Sharon Bialek; Allred snarks about Cain's “stimulus package”  —  What a way to kick off the week.  At least we had an extra hour from Daylight Saving Time to prepare.  —  Yep: Gloria Allred is back.
CNN:
Cain accuser says candidate groped her in 1997  —  (CNN) - A woman who claimed Herman Cain sexually assaulted her in 1997 said Monday she hoped the Republican presidential candidate would come clean about other allegations of sexual misconduct.  —  Sharon Bialek said Cain reached under …
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Sharon Bialek says Herman Cain made inappropriate advances  —  A woman who worked with Herman Cain in the 1990s says he made unwanted advances toward her when she sought his help looking for a new job.  —  The woman, Sharon Bialek, said she met Cain for dinner in the summer of 1997 …
Business Insider:
CAIN ACCUSER: Herman Cain Grabbed My Head And Pushed It Toward His Crotch  —  Gloria Allred has introduced Herman Cain's fourth accuser, Sharon Bialek.  —  Here's the picture.  —  LIVE UPDATES:  —  Gloria Allred: “Instead of receiving help from Mr. Cain, he decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.”
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Romney, Cain tied, but there are red flags for both  —  WASHINGTON - Accusations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain haven't cost him his spot at the top of the Republican field in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.  The former corporate CEO is tied with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney at 21% each.
Pema Levy / American Prospect:
Cain's High Crimes, Not Misdemeanors  —  Minutes ago, Sharon Bialek, one of the four women who alleged Herman Cain sexually harassed her, came forward in a press conference to recount what happened.  In short, after losing her job at the National Restaurant Association in 1997 …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
39% Think Cain Allegations True, 24% False
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Guardian
CBS News:
Herman Cain favorability falls behind Romney after scandal, poll shows
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Clyburn: Cain thought he was ‘above’ presidential vetting process
Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Allegations Against Cain Don't Concern Most GOP Voters
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Independents and moderates agree: GOP deliberately sabotaging Obama's jobs policies  —  Ever since Obama began aggressively calling out the GOP for obstructing his jobs policies, insisting that Republicans are “putting party before country,” pundits have ominously warned that he risks alienating …
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Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
Conservatives Launch ‘Not Mitt Romney’ Campaign, Warn Of Dire Consequences If Romney Is The GOP Nominee  —  A coalition of conservatives have launched a campaign against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney's candidacy to prevent him from becoming the GOP nominee next year.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Romney is the Hillary Clinton of 2012
Discussion: Booman Tribune
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: One year out  —  One year out: NBC's battleground map, which shows the presidential race is shaping up to be VERY competitive... One year out: new NBC/WSJ poll is released at 6:30 pm ET... Previewing tomorrow's 2011 contests in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi …
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Washington Post:
Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings  —  There's no question that President Obama faces one of the most challenging political environments in modern memory as he prepares to try to win a second term next November.  —  But with one year …
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Jonathan Bernstein / A plain blog about politics:
Cranky Monday Blogging 2
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability  —  Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran's government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles …
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Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
Russia warns against Israeli air strike on Iran
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Here Comes the Sun  —  For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it.  Moore's Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months …
msnbc.com:
Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks  —  By Michelle Kessel and Jessica Hopper  —  Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967.
Discussion: Jezebel and Shakesville
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
SB 5 headed for big defeat  —  Labor is poised for a big victory in Ohio Tuesday.  PPP's final poll on Issue 2 finds 59% of voters plan to reject Senate Bill 5, with only 36% voting for approval.  —  What might be most remarkable about the 23 point margin in this poll is that it's exactly identical …
Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Living a lie  —  Joe Paterno issued a statement yesterday regarding the apparent fact that for 43 years Paterno's PSU program harbored a serial child rapist (Jerry Sandusky joined Paterno's staff in 1966 and was running football camps at PSU for ten-year-old boys as late as 2009).  Here it is in full:
Daniel W. Drezner:
Nothing to see here... just the collapse of the euro... and maybe the entire global economic system  —  Hey, remember my last bloggingheads, when I went to the 1930s analogy to describe the current problems in the global political economy?  Well, that was a few days ago, and my …
Paul Krugman:
Wishful Thinking And The Road To Eurogeddon  —  Gavyn Davies has a very good piece today offering another way to think about the euromess.  I say “another way to think” advisedly — his analysis of the basics is, as far as I can tell, identical to mine, but he offers a different angle …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann: ‘If Anyone Will Not Work, Neither Should He Eat’  —  GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann promised to significantly lower funding to social safety net programs during a speech at the Family Research Council this morning, going so far as to suggest that people who can't work should not eat.
Jenny Anderson / New York Times:
National Study Finds Widespread Sexual Harassment of Students in Grades 7 to 12  —  Nearly half of 7th to 12th graders experienced sexual harassment in the last school year, according to a study scheduled for release on Monday, with 87 percent of those who have been harassed reporting negative effects …
 
 
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