In continuing to address "Hurricane Scandy," Stewart had to admit that Republicans has something with the IRS and Benghazi dust-ups. He even proposed teaming up with Fox News! But you know who still doesn't get to take a GOP victory lap? Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Cain supporters are trying to hunt down the dirty rotten scoundrel who leaked the story that Herman Cain was accused of sexually harassing two women at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
While Herman Cain ducks reporters' questions about sexual harassment and Rick Perry promises he wasn't wasted when he gavea giddy speech, Mitt Romney and President Obama have moved on.
A third female ex-employee of the National Restaurant Association says Cain showed "aggressive and unwanted behavior" toward her, including "sexually suggestive remarks or gestures," the Associated Press' Jack Gillum and Stephen Ohlemacher report.
Herman Cain's conservative supporters have two defenses of to his sexual harassment claims -- liberals are trying to destroy him with racist stereotypes and Cain's comments barely count as flirty -- that seem to contradict each other.
Herman Cain's lack of political experience has been one of his main selling points, but one way it's clearly hurt him is that it led him to believe reports that he was accused of sexual harassment by two women would just go away.
We've been hearing the counter-intuitive notion that the story of Herman Cain's resurfaced sexual harassment accusations may not derail the candidate--but what does polling have to say about it?
In his media appearances, Herman Cain may be able to talk about on what happened in those two sexual harassment complaints we learned of this week, but at least one of his accusers can't respond because of a gag order.
Jon Huntsman has been reduced to running a one-state presidential campaign in New Hampshire, getting about 6 percent of voters' support in that state and 1 to 2 percent in national polls.
Remember when you had to show your aunt Snopes.com because she kept emailing you forwards with animated angel GIFs about how drinking Coke can kill you?
It's fun for reporters to imagine Mitt Romney, who had the amazing good fortune to be born very handsome and very rich, is a pitiful dweeb unable to make the smallest small talk with other humans.
The last best hope to salvage a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction deal in the Super Committee rests on the shoulders of three Republicans: Michigan Congressman Dave Camp, Ohio Senator Rob Portman and Michigan Congressman Fred Upton.
Herman Cain initially said Monday he didn't remember the sexual harassment allegations against him when he led the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, but as the day -- and media scrutiny -- wore on, the memories have come back.
"I've been abused worse than the detainees have been abused," J.D. Gordon, then the Navy's spokesman at Guantanamo Bay told The Washington Post in 2009, lamenting the lack of a media uproar over his accusations that a Miami Herald reporter was sexually harassing him.
Herman Cain is finally being taken seriously as a presidential candidate -- which means reporters are out to dig up dirt from his past and then parse every single word in his campaign's denials about that dirt.
Jon Huntsman's daughters are trying really, really hard to get famous before their dad's single-digits-in-the-polls campaign comes to an end.
With time running out for the Super Committee to agree on a deficit-reduction plan, Capitol Hill dailies are fat with ad pages meant to influence lawmakers.
From stunning dance moves to prurient Twitter habits, the extracurricular activities of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's press team have been the special target of FishBowlDC's Betsy Rothstein this week.
The purpose of the Super Committee was to force Congress to make a deal to trim the deficit, but with lawmakers still immune to compromise, they're looking for loopholes instead.
It's difficult to understand what Herman Cain's campaign is doing until you look at it as a mission to advance the personal brands of everyone involved.
Ron Paul can't get any attention despite fundraising and organizing successes, while Herman Cain is getting too much attention despite fundraising and organizing failures.
What's a bigger danger to Rick Perry: that he goes to more primary debates and says stupid stuff, or that he skips the debates and -- the horror -- Mitt Romney calls him a fraidy cat?
With only weeks to find a compromise, there's a trillion dollar gap between the deficit-reduction plans proposed by Democrats and Republicans on the Super Committee
Herman Cain says he can fix the economy just like he fixed Godfather's pizza, but his record as a manager of his own campaign is grim.
Earlier today, Democrats leaked a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package to the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Dow Jones and Reuters but in each case, one major government expense was not mentioned: defense spending.
Herman Cain likes to keep his advisers secret, but perhaps his campaign realized national security was a bit of a weakness after Afghan president Hamid Karzai made fun of his problems with geography, because his foreign policy team was revealed Wednesday.
Super Committee Democrats tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in budget savings have news of for Republicans: How 'bout $3 trillion in savings?
Anti-Mitt Romney sentiment has proved so stubborn it prompted talk radio host Hugh Hewitt to wonder why "so many conservatives hate him" -- but Hewitt can take comfort in the fact that so many Washington lobbyists think Romney's pretty great.
A series of rotating Republican frontrunners has made clear which issues make their party's base squeal like tweens at a Justin Bieber concert.
Texas governor Rick Perry has united a divided country with his not-so-flat tax plan: no one really gets it.
Texas governor Rick Perry, fading in the latest poll, has kept up his questions about Barack Obama's birth certificate that he brought up in a Parade magazine interview, telling CNBC, "It's fun to poke at him."
Things are easier for Newt Gingrich now that he's not the only Republican presidential candidate in the race to make money.
Herman Cain says people like him because of his "plain talk," but the plainest of language still cannot make sense of some of the more interesting stuff Cain says.
After what must have been a riveting presentation by Donald Trump, Rick Perry hints he's no longer sure President Obama was born in the United States.
The effort to push up the Nevada primary is over, which means the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary will hold off until after the New Year.
Eight years into a grueling, dispiriting conflict that has torn a nation asunder, with countrymen attacking countrymen as traitors, the end seems almost incomprehensible.
The hometown paper of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is cleaning up his latest political scandal better than his own PR team.
The growing consensus on how the 12-member panel will plans to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit is starting to look like a big win for the Defense Department, which has could see its budget slashed by hundreds of billions of dollars if there is no deal.
On Thursday evening, Jon Stewart spent his intro segment discussing the end of Qaddafi in Libya, and noted an odd reaction to the news from some Republicans.
Would more House Republicans rather have John Boehner's job or Sean Hannity's? How many Republican presidential candidates would rather be in a Fox News studio than the White House?
House Republican leaders are afraid to punish conservative congressmen for not toeing the line because they'll turn them into martyrs, but they don't have much to reward them with either.
The 12-member bipartisan Super Committee tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in cuts has a little over a six weeks before they have to send their plan to Congress and there is no deal in sight.
The complaint among commentators that there have been too many Republican debates seems to have evaporated after Las Vegas.
In poll after poll, Herman Cain's freewheeling humor is cited as a contributing factor to his astronomical rise in the GOP primary. Trouble is, the Washington press isn't laughing.
Here's a new, wonky game: what words do you think voters mentioned the most when Rick Perry's name was read by a pollster?
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Obama's jobs plan.
Tuesday night is the eighth Republican primary debate of the 2012 election cycle, and while many pundits agree that this time the debates have mattered a lot more this cycle, will they run out of things to say about them?
Everywhere President Obama looks these days -- protesters, polls, liberals, conservatives, Congress, his own supporters -- he seems to see one thing: frustration.
When her campaign was doing well this summer, Michele Bachmann rubbed colleagues the wrong way, but now that her support has cratered, she's starting to speak a little more softly and admit mistakes.
Herman Cain's presidential campaign paid Cain's motivational speaking company $36,511 for copies of Cain's books, Bloomberg's Jonathan D. Salant and Joshua Green report.
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