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GOP rivals hope Herman Cain's demise will reinvigorate their struggling …

You're like, "wait, I thought he "suspended" his campaign yesterday so he could focus on making a new website." That's all true, but just because he quit doesn't mean his supporters suspended their adoration of Herman Cain. In the end, it was Herman Cain's ego, not the women, that killed his campaign. In this week's [...]

Political Hotsheet Herman Cain drops out 1 of 9

Herman Cain announced he is suspending his campaign for president following allegations of an extramarital affair and claims of sexual harassment. (Dec. 3) (/The Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: SuperFan badge holders consistently post Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back [...]

Herman Cain drops White House bid

MSNBC host Martin Bashir called on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to resign from his church over his alleged 13-year affair with an Atlanta woman. Bashir has not minced words about Cain on previous So today is the day. Or not. A live event is scheduled to kick off around noon today (check C-SPAN and [...]

Herman Cain's Resurgence Means Everyone Has To Eat His Pizza, Apparently

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. The former pizza magnate, who's been polling around 30 percent among With the devastating accuracy of a CIA drone, the Republican candidates zeroed in on their [...]

Herman Cain supporters launch a super PAC

By Michael Crowley | @CrowleyTIME | October 19, 2011 | + You can already sense the air coming out of the Herman Cain balloon–he wasn't the main attraction last night, and the answers he gives to questions outside him comfort zone lack his trademark WASHINGTON — Pizza mogul Herman Cain's recent rise in the polls [...]

Herman Cain reembraces electric fence

You know all of those dumb jokes about how Herman Cain, former Godfather's Pizza CEO, just thinks about pizza all the time? Well here's Herman Cain himself making one of them 20 years ago at the Omaha Press Club. Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann both stopped in Arizona in advance of Tuesday's Republican debate in [...]

Long Ties to Koch Brothers Key to Cain's Campaign

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says he wasn't being serious when he penned a column in 2006 calling on Republicans to groom golfer Tiger Woods to run for president. In an interview with The Daily Caller Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says he wasn't being serious when he penned a column in 2006 calling on [...]

Herman Cain's deep ties to Koch brothers key to campaign

Herman Cain: I wasn't serious about putting electric fence on border. Herman Cain is firing up the crowd at a tea party rally in this West Tennessee town when the generator powering his sound system shudders to a halt. Cain stands awkwardly for a few moments then suddenly begins to sing. >>> inside the fight [...]

Huntsman: I thought Cain 9-9-9 plan was "price of pizza"

But that doesn't mean it took long for the fireworks to start, though they did come from an unexpected corner of the table: Jon Huntsman, who got Herman Cain fired up by dismissing his 9-9-9 tax plan as the price of a pizza. Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain might want to stick to what he [...]

Cain and '9-9-9' plan seize spotlight at debate

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain might want to stick to what he knows best, as a recent gaffe exposed that the pizzaman is perhaps more equipped to talk pepperoni than policy. We haven't taken it out on Herman Cain yet — he continues to surge. But the surge won't last. The writing is already appearing [...]