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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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Woman Accuses Cain of Lewd Behavior; He Denies It — Updated A Chicago woman alleged on Monday that Herman Cain grabbed her in a sexually aggressive way when she sought his help after losing her job at the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s. — Sharon Bialek …
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.
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Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg:
Cain Denies Claim He Groped Woman — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain denied a former employee's allegation that he groped her after she sought his help in finding a job in 1997. — Sharon Bialek, a single mother from Chicago, is the latest woman to accuse Cain …
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CNN, Big Government, The Atlantic Online and Wizbang
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.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Allred: Cain offered client ‘his idea of a stimulus package’ — The Herman Cain scandal finally has a name and a face. — Superlawyer Gloria Allred introduced her client, Sharon Bialek, at a press conference in New York Monday afternoon, telling reporters that the woman formerly employed …
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Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Cain Blasts Media after Fourth Accuser Surfaces — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain issued a blistering attack on the mainstream media today just hours after a fourth woman surfaced to accuse Cain of sexual harassment. — Cain accused the media of being “obsessed with nonsense; the voters and I are not.”
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Hot Air and Say Anything
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 …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Fresh allegations are tipping point for Herman Cain, Iowa conservatives say — Sharon Bialek arrives for her news conference in New York today where she accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of making an unwanted sexual advance against her in 1997.
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Tony Radar / RADAR:
New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred
New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Cain emails his list: ‘Media obsessed’ with harassment story
Cain emails his list: ‘Media obsessed’ with harassment story
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Little Green Footballs
David Remnick / New Yorker:
DECLINE AND FALL — Sometime in the future, when a twenty …
DECLINE AND FALL — Sometime in the future, when a twenty …
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Washington Post, The Hill, Don Surber, msnbc.com and Saint Petersblog
CBS News:
Herman Cain favorability falls behind Romney after scandal, poll shows
Herman Cain favorability falls behind Romney after scandal, poll shows
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
39% Think Cain Allegations True, 24% False
39% Think Cain Allegations True, 24% False
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Guardian and Taegan Goddard's …
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: One year out — One year out: NBC's battleground map …
First Thoughts: One year out — One year out: NBC's battleground map …
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Cain allegations don't matter to majority of Republicans
NBC/WSJ poll: Cain allegations don't matter to majority of Republicans
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T. A. Frank / New York Times:
On the Ropes With Herman Cain
On the Ropes With Herman Cain
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CNN:
Cain accuser says candidate groped her in 1997
Cain accuser says candidate groped her in 1997
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The Hill, Weasel Zippers and Booman Tribune
Business Insider:
CAIN ACCUSER: Herman Cain Grabbed My Head And Pushed It Toward His Crotch
CAIN ACCUSER: Herman Cain Grabbed My Head And Pushed It Toward His Crotch
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The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and Shakesville
Pema Levy / American Prospect:
Cain's High Crimes, Not Misdemeanors
Ynetnews:
Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu ‘liar’ — Microphones accidently left on after G20 meeting pick up private conversation between US, French presidents. Sarkozy admits he 'can't stand' Israeli premier. Obama: You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day! — Ynet
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Thumbs down for Occupy, Tea Party in new nationwide poll — The Occupy Wall Street movement may be starting to lose its luster with the American public, with four in ten now saying they have an unfavorable view of the protests, a new nationwide UMass Lowell/Boston Herald poll shows.
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Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
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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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Not Mitt Romney, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Des Moines Register, The PJ Tatler and The Daily Dish
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Emmarie Huetteman / The Caucus:
An Aloof Romney in a Plane Encounter
An Aloof Romney in a Plane Encounter
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Indecision Forever, Business Insider, Mediaite and Hot Air
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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Washington Monthly, Political Mojo, Indecision Forever, Daily Kos, American Prospect, The Hill, US Politics and Saint Petersblog
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Politico's Jonathan Martin snicker at journalism's ‘code of ethics’ [VIDEO] — The Society of Professional Journalism's code of ethics is unknown to, and easily dismissed by, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. On “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Monday, the anchor introduced …
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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.
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Jezebel, Pirate's Cove and Shakesville
BBC:
NoW placed hacking lawyers under surveillance — Mr Lewis told Newsnight that he was “devastated” to hear the revelations — The News of the World (NoW) hired an ex-police officer early last year to carry out surveillance on two prominent lawyers representing victims of phone hacking, BBC Newsnight has learned.
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New York Post:
Big labor's backlash — All eyes should be on Ohio tomorrow as voters decide whether to roll back Gov. John Kasich's bold public-employee reforms. Passed this year, the much-needed course correction sharply curtailed collective-bargaining privileges for the state's 350,000 taxpayer-funded workers …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Judge blocks graphic images on cigarette packages — WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing tobacco companies next year to put graphic images including dead and diseased smokers on their cigarette packages.
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Say Anything, Hot Air and Gothamist
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 …
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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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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:
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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.
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Shakesville, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Indecision Forever