What could be wrong with a top foreclosure firm throwing a foreclosed families/homeless-themed halloween party?
Herman Cain is the frontrunner (by one point) in Iowa, according to fresh numbers from the Des Moines Register. Mitt Romney is running an extremely close second.
Herman Cain may have made a bomb of money off his recent ad featuring his chain-smoking chief of staff. However, he’s got a message to kids: don’t be cool like Mark Block!
Meanwhile, he’s once again been demonstrating his thorough and scholarly knowledge of the Middle East; this time referring to the “so-called Palestinian people.”
Our reporters in Chicago to report on the Obama campaign stopped by Occupy Chicago and filed this report. Video after the jump … Read More
The Cain campaign is making a full-fledged push-back, defense and attack against the Politico article claiming a history of sexual harassment.
Herman Cain was already scheduled to speak in DC this morning at the American Enterprise Institute before those sex harassment allegations became public last night. Cain should take the stage momentarily. Our Evan McMorris-Santoro is there. You can follow updates on any news from Cain’s speech here.
Meanwhile, Cain’s campaign manager is on MSNBC right now categorically denying that Cain ever sexually harassed anyone.
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TPM, and a lot of others, has been reporting for the last few weeks on how Herman Cain doesn’t have any kind of campaign apparatus in the traditional sense. Boy, does that show now. You would expect past sexual harassment allegations to get a thorough vetting from within the campaign very early on in the process, by which I mean the campaign would do its own due diligence and, if not figure out the underlying facts, at least determine the scope of what is known and unknown, knowable and unknowable, and have a plan for how to respond when the time came. From reading Politico‘s account of the back and forth with the campaign over the 10 days before it published last night’s story, it’s clear the Cain campaign was scrambling to determine the nature and extent of the allegations. From a strictly practical political perspective, that’s an awfully bad position to be in. Read More
Herman Cain and AEI are keeping this morning’s appearance strictly on the topic he was scheduled to address: tax policy. “I will take all of the arrows later,” Cain said, apparently referring to another appearance later today, at the National Press Club.
As if there weren’t enough problems for Herman Cain today, there’s a pretty damning report out of Wisconsin that suggests — actually, it comes very close to establishing — that a not-for-profit run by Cain campaign manager Mark Block was paying for Cain’s campaign expenses earlier this year after Cain had already set up his official presidential campaign committee, which would be a violation of all kinds of election and campaign finance laws.