Reporter Roughed Up at Cain Event
Three members of Herman Cain’s campaign team apologized on Wednesday after a local police officer who said he was there to protect the Republican presidential candidate manhandled a reporter.
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As Mitt Romney inched closer to the Republican nomination, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich considered fusing their campaigns, according to new revelations from a Santorum advisor. The plan never came to be — but it doesn't matter. It wouldn't have worked.
Three members of Herman Cain’s campaign team apologized on Wednesday after a local police officer who said he was there to protect the Republican presidential candidate manhandled a reporter.
GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has a history of promiting clients of a think tank he founded in 2003, but without disclosing that they were clients, USA Today reported on Thursday.
Journalists, consider yourselves warned. "A bodyguard for presidential candidate Herman Cain got a little physical with a Postreporter at an event in Iowa on Tuesday," The Washington Post's Aaron Blake wrote Tuesday night.
Republican Presidential contenders vied for the title of most hawkish in their foreign policy debate. Rick Perry failed to self-immolate, Mitt Romney chugged competently along, and more.
Newt Gingrich's supporters have ironically reclaimed an already ironic pun.
Or will he stop at two? Either way, the Texas governor is making a stop in New York City for a Letterman taping, reports Carrie Dann of NBC News.
In the world of polls, President Obama is having a great week, basically tying a "Generic Republican" in this morning's Gallup poll, after trailing the amorphous candidate by eight points last month.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the Cain allegations and the candidate's dwindling memory of them.
Scores of interviews with Iowa Republicans over the weekend turned up scant outrage over the sexual harassment allegations leveled against presidential candidate Herman Cain.
The Players: Meghan McCain, daughter of John McCain, Conservative pundit and savvy blogger who doesn't want a "rock star president"; Newt Gingrich, Republican hopeful, distant third-placer in the Romney inevitability race and definitely not a rock star; Tucker Carlson, Conservative pundit and creator of the Daily Caller news site
Maybe sexual harassment settlements don't really count as skeletons?
Players: Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and a not-so-good, equal-opportunity impersonator; Donald Trump, billionaire and one-time Republican frontrunner who's been impersonated (well and badly) many times.
Mark Block, chief of staff to Herman Cain, says yesterday's media frenzy over sexual harassment claims helped the campaign post one of its best fundraising days ever with $250,000 coming into the coffers.
Cartoonist Tony Auth on Mitt Romney's wavering ways.
No one seems more eager to put an end to Michele Bachmann's presidential run than her former campaign manager, Ed Rollins, who continues to undermine the candidate's struggling organization.
Herman Cain says that the comment "my wife comes up to my chin" and the gesture that followed were included in one of the sexual harassment charges.
Politico reported late on Sunday that Herman Cain was twice accused of "inappropriate behavior" by women who worked with him when he ran the National Restaurant Association in late 1990s.
Rep. Michele Bachmann owes much of the support that fuelled her presidential campaign to her ties to the Tea Party, but she is now finding out that the fiercely decentralized movement can be a double-edged sword.
Cartoonist Tom Toles pokes holes in Rick Perry's tax plan.
Mitt Romney has stepped in it again, this time in Ohio where he appeared to back off his support for a controversial anti-union bill, then quickly pivoted again say he's for it "110 percent."
Rick Perry explained that he isn't trying to reignite the birther issue, "I was having some fun with Donald Trump," in an interview with Tampa Bay's Bay News 9.
President Obama will compare the Republican primary to a reality TV show while sitting on the couch of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday evening.
Rick Perry has become the latest candidate to embrace simplicity as a first principle, by proposing a flat-tax that is measured by its tax form rather than its policy merits.
A new YouTube ad put together by the Herman Cain campaign has quite a few people scratching their heads.
An unusually silly sounding word has become the preferred way to describe the GOP front-runner.
Herman Cain is riding his "9-9-9" plan to a seven-point lead over Mitt Romney, while Perry now trails Paul, Gingrich and Bachmann--but almost 70 percent of people polled aren't certain of their vote.
Cartoonist Tony Auth on Mitt Romney's inevitability
Trump will participate in Town Hall but insists this isn't an endorsement
Santorum thinks he's being bullied
The Congressman's response: "he talks even sillier than he sometimes does"
Cartoonist Steve Benson on Sarah Palin's diminishing returns
White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with Romney health care advisers
The once and maybe future frontrunner's name recognition waned since 2007
Cartoonist Tony Auth on the Chris Christie hype machine
The New Jersey governor says he won't run for president
Cartoonist Tony Auth on the crowded Republican field
The Texan was quoted as saying "I've had roadkill that tasted better than that"
A surprising result after Perry surged and Bachmann faded in the first caucus state
A forthcoming autobiography denounces parties, celebrity guests, and inaugural balls
Cartoonist Lisa Benson on the latest Republican debate
The Daily Show host delivers a message to the GOP base
Some Republicans still want the big guy. Just don't try to tell it to Ari Fleischer.
Cartoonist Steve Benson on Rick Perry's Vce President
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