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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.
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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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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 …
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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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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.
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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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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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 …
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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.”
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Pema Levy / American Prospect:
Cain's High Crimes, Not Misdemeanors
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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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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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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Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
Conservatives Launch ‘Not Mitt Romney’ Campaign, Warn Of Dire Consequences If Romney Is The GOP Nominee
Conservatives Launch ‘Not Mitt Romney’ Campaign, Warn Of Dire Consequences If Romney Is The GOP Nominee
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Not Mitt Romney, Des Moines Register, The PJ Tatler and The Daily Dish
Washington Post:
Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows
Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows
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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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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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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The growing acceptance of the ‘sabotage’ question
The growing acceptance of the ‘sabotage’ question
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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
Russia warns against Israeli air strike on Iran
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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 …
Rasmussen Reports:
36% Say Wall Street Protesters Represent Views of Mainstream America, 44% Disagree — Voters tend to view the Occupy Wall Street protesters negatively and regard their views as liberal and out of step with mainstream America. They're almost evenly divided over whether the protesters genuinely …
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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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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 …
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 …
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:
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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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 …
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Financial Times, The Daily Dish, Telegraph and Political Mojo
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 …
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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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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