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In his lame excuse for a no-holds-barred press conference late Tuesday afternoon, Herman Cain said he relishes talking directly to the American people. But despite the new ways in which candidates can circumvent the national media–Twitter, Facebook, YouTube–they’re still largely at the mercy of their mainstream press coverage.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life this afternoon released a report on presidential preferences for religious groups. The polling was conducted between Sept. 22-Oct. 4, before the Cain roller coaster took off, but it still offers insight into how key Christian voting blocs will play in 2012.
A few months ago, I wrote a controversial column about the Head Start pre-school program, in which I cited the Department of Health and Human Services’ own study that showed Head Start wasn’t making much of a difference. I quoted an Obama Administration official acknowledging the problem, especially in the Head Start programs run by [...]
In last year’s class of incoming Republican governors, John Kasich was among the best bets to become a star. A former nine-term congressman, Kasich ousted a formidable Democratic incumbent by persuading Ohioans that the state’s bloated budget needed trimming, and that he, a former House Budget Committee chairman, was the right person for the job. [...]
While the highly politicized issue of legal challenges to Democrats’ Affordable Care Act broke along party lines at the District level, Appellate courts have offered a more unpredictable and telling series of rulings on the measure. Tuesday’s 2-1 split decision from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the constitutionality of the individual health insurance [...]
—The percentage of Americans, according to new Reuters/Ipsos poll, who believe that sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain are true.
Ever wonder what Harry Reid’s desk looks like? Or Speaker Boehner’s? TIME commissioned photographer Tim Davis to take a peek at the workspaces of the Beltway elite. This series is the result.
Imagine this: A charismatic southern man is running for President, enjoying a surprising degree of success, when all of a sudden, women start coming out of the woodwork accusing him of sexual indiscretions. This candidate denies these accusations and his campaign begins to attack the women making them. Sound familiar? It’s Bill Clinton circa 1992.
Herman Cain’s improbable rise to the top of Republican presidential primary polls — and the prospect that two black men, including an incumbent, could compete head-on for the White House next year — should be proof that American politics has moved beyond race. Instead, Cain’s candidacy has been marred by empty self-promotion, embarrassing miscues and [...]
Bill Daley will scale back his chief of staff duties after shaky tenure. Cain will address accusers in a Tuesday press conference. More shoes drop. The Tribune digs on Sharon Bialek. Cain’s anti-gravity candidacy chronicled.
