China Becomes Target at GOP Debate
President Obama begun a tour of the Pacific Rim with a stop in his home state of Hawaii over the weekend, where he met with leaders from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. There are 21 countries in...
View ArticleThe Country Meets The Woman Behind Herman Cain
The public got its first introduction to Gloria Cain, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, on Monday night in an exclusive interview with Fox News. The wife of the embattled candidate...
View ArticleFriday Follow: Cain Train Derails, OWS Goes Mobile, Pizza as Vegetable
Continued gaffes from the Cain campaign, diminishing returns for the GOP from their presidential candidates, Occupy Wall Street moves out of the park, and pizza is now technically a vegetable — for...
View ArticleCain Denies Affair With Atlanta Woman
After weeks of deflecting allegations of sexual harassment from four different women, Herman Cain is back on the defensive after an Atlanta woman claimed she carried on a 13-year affair with the...
View ArticleHerman Cain May Drop Presidential Bid
In the wake of several allegations of sexual harassment and a woman's claim that he had a 13-year affair with her, Herman Cain is reportedly reconsidering his run for president. On Tuesday, he denied...
View ArticleHow Much Does Adultery Matter in Politics?
Herman Cain is the latest in a long line of political figures dogged by allegations of extramarital affairs. Cain is said to be reconsidering his campaign after an Atlanta woman came forward on Monday...
View ArticleFriday Follow: Newt is Up, Cain is Down, Barney Says Goodbye
This week, we've seen Newt Gingrich continue to climb in the Republican polls as Herman Cain has continued to falter. Also out of Washington, Rep. Barney Frank announced his intention to not seek...
View ArticleAs Cain Suspends Campaign, Newt Moves Forward
Newt Gingrich gets a bump in the polls as one-time front-runner Herman Cain "suspends" his campaign. With just a month til the Iowa Caucus, WNYC political reporter Anna Sale and Republican strategist...
View ArticleIs Herman Cain's Loss Mitt Romney's Gain?
Herman Cain has suspended — but not completely disbanded — his presidential campaign. Whether he will endorse another candidate or continue fundraising and rejoin the race at some later point remains...
View ArticleCatching Up With Herman Cain
He may no longer be making headlines or dropping one-liners at the debates, but former GOP front-runner Herman Cain is still an active presence in the Republican Party. The "Hermanator" spoke last...
View ArticleWatch: Perry's "Oops" Highlight of GOP Debate
1. Let's just get this one out of the way: Rick Perry, listing the three government cabinets he'd like to axe as president... stalled out at number three. "I will tell you, it is three agencies of...
View ArticleOpinion: GOP Debate Showed Breathtaking Lack of Solutions
There are three points I'd like to make about last night's Republican Debate. First, as the candidates passed on the feisty and combative mood of previous match-ups, it seems they are happier to bide...
View ArticleOf Pauses and Princesses: Primary Debate Number Nine Recap
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Lisa...
View ArticleLook | A Bad Week for Politicians and Penn State
It's been a tough week for GOP presidential candidates, European prime ministers, sports legends, media moguls and Hollywood stars.Take a look at some of the folks for whom things didn't quite go quite...
View ArticleGOP Foreign Policy Debate: A Live Tweet Recap
This — the so-called "Commander-in-Chief" debate, hosted by CBS News and National Journal — was by far the most boring of the debates to date, at least if your standard for interesting is "sudden...
View ArticleNY Republican Women Critical of Herman Cain Over Scandal
Presidential hopeful Herman Cain has boasted that his supporters are "voting with their dollars," contributing more to his campaign than ever since the allegations of sexual harassment became known....
View ArticleWatch: Asked About Libya, Cain Stays on Message
Presidential hopeful Herman Cain isn't going to be tricked into any more embarrassing Libya flubs.Fresh off a week in which his painful and bizarre response to a basic question about the crisis in...
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GOP Book Report: Highlights from the 2012 Campaign Reads
All but one GOP candidate released a book during this election cycle - Rick Santorum's last and only book came out in 2006. So what did voters learn about the candidates—their biographies, their...
View ArticleOpinion: The Questions We Should be Asking the GOP Candidates
We are now recovering from gazillionth GOP presidential debate, and there is no end in sight. The ratings show that people are enjoying watching the contenders slug it out, but they can obscure the...
View ArticleOpinion: Huntsman's Failure Shows GOP's Extremism Problem
It’s only a matter of time before it’s Rick Santorum’s turn.Why not? Why shouldn’t Rick get his moment at the head of the GOP pack? The merry-go-round of candidates who have shared the top spot...
View ArticleOpinion: Are You Smarter Than a Frontrunner?
Slammed as the Stupid Party, the GOP turns to Newt Gingrich as its new egghead savior.With just under five weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses mark the official start of the Presidential primary...
View ArticleOpinion: Cain Finished After Latest Sex Scandal
It's time for him to go.I've been open about my long-time admiration and respect for Herman Cain. I defended him against dubious charges of sexual harassment—and I would defend him from those charges...
View ArticleOpinion: What the Cain Train Derailment Means for the GOP Field
In suspending his campaign Saturday, onetime presidential contender, short flash-in-the-pan, and former Godfather’s Pizza executive Herman Cain thundered, “I’m not going away!” Here's why that might...
View ArticleThe Gingrich-Cain Mutual Admiration Campaign
Former presidential candidate Herman Cain will reportedly endorse Newt Gingrich’s bid for the presidency today, underscoring the thrust of momentum the former Speaker has picked up with Cain’s exit.The...
View ArticleLiking Newt, Warts and All
Recap from It's a Free Country.Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney, Gingrich and the French Connection
"In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of...
View ArticleOpinion: Tonight's Debate is Ron Paul's Moment
There are those of us who watch politics the way other devotees tune into sports. Instead of checking out box scores, we scan the poll numbers. In both worlds, the players become celebrities - we...
View ArticleOpinion: Be Thankful for Iowa
It's one week from showtime - the January 3 Iowa Caucuses are almost here. We are putting on our best faces, cleaning up the more than 1,700 caucus precinct sites, and getting ready for the national...
View ArticleAfter Bachmann, A Look at the When and Why to Call it Quits
Following her sixth place finish in the Iowa Caucuses last night, in which she only got five percent of the vote, Michele Bachmann announced this morning that she's ending her campaign for...
View ArticleIt's Alive: Herman Cain to Renew Push for '9-9-9'
Yes, yes, yes. For those who felt Cain's absence at the debates and campaign stops this winter, a thaw is coming.Though he isn't running for president anymore, Herman Cain is reviving his campaign's...
View ArticleWatch: Colbert's Pro-Cain Super PAC Ad, and Others
We've been hearing a lot in recent debates about Super PACs and 527s and all the secretive nasty things they do during campaigns. Here's what they look like in action, starting with Stephen Colbert's...
View ArticleOpinion: Why the GOP Lost Black Voters
Only four days left until the South Carolina Republican presidential primary. As we head into what everyone seems to agree will be the defining contest for the GOP, I find myself wondering whether...
View ArticleWatch: Herman Cain and Stephen Colbert Rally in South Carolina
Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain are holding a rally in South Carolina today at 1 pm. Colbert is calling on people to vote for Herman Cain as a proxy for him in the South Carolina primary, for which...
View ArticleOpinion: The GOP's Gender Gap is Real—and Poses Big 2012 Problems
At the beginning of the political season for the 2012 race, the Obama administration began enforcing a piece of the Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare, if you're a conservative) requiring everyone...
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Bracket | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments (Round 1, Day 1)
March Madness is upon us and no one is safe, not even political junkies.We're getting in on the action with a bracket of our own. Who—or what—will compete The most memorable moments of the 2012 GOP...
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Bracket | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments (Round 1, Day 2)
The madness marches on with Day 2 of first round match-ups in our GOP debate moments bracket.In the first round so far, Rick Perry has a unanimous win in the Gaffes division with his "Oops" moment over...
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Bracket | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments (Round 1, Day 3)
Halfway through the first round of our Memorable Debate Moments bracket, Mitt Romney's $10,000 bet squares off against Jon Huntsman's Chinese showboating, and it's a battle of the boos in the Audience...
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Bracket | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments (Round 1, Day 4)
On the last day of Round 1, Newt Gingrich goes toe-to-toe with himself in the Dust-Ups Division, then faces off with Rick Perry in a sound bite battle.Yesterday saw Mitt Romney's $10,000 bet advance...
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Bracket | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments (Round 2, Day 1)
Round 2 begins with match-ups in the Audience Participation and Gaffe divisions, and the winners will go on to represent their categories in the Final Four.Rick Perry's "Oops" and Mitt Romney's $10,000...
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Bracket | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments (Round 2, Day 2)
Two spots remain in the Final Four. Today decides the winners of the Dust-Ups and Policy Jingles divisions.Will Newt Gingrich's bludgeoning of John King trump a good old fashioned back-and-forth...
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Bracket | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments (Final Four)
Only four debate moments remain, and today they battle it out for a spot in tomorrow's championship match-up."Oops" won the Gaffes division and now faces the Newt v. John King smackdown, which was the...
View ArticleHerman Cain Unleashes Most Bizarre Political Ad Yet
UPDATE: The original video has been removed from YouTube as a violation of the website's policy against "spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content." The embedded video on SickOfStimulus.com also...
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Championship | Most Memorable GOP Debate Moments
It's all come down to this. After two weeks of voting, it's between Rick Perry's "Oops" and the booing of a gay soldier for most memorable moment of the 2012 GOP debates.We began with 16 moments from...
View ArticleMost Memorable GOP Debate Moment | And the Winner is...
After two weeks of intense competition, It's a Free Country readers have settled on the most memorable GOP debate moment of the 2012 campaign.On Tuesday, Rick Perry's "Oops" beat out the booing of a...
View ArticlePost Campaign, the Cain Train Rolls On in New York
Someone forgot to tell Herman Cain that he’s not running for president anymore.The former GOP candidate was in New York City this week to promote his 9-9-9 plan (still) and the 9-9-9 Patriot Summit, a...
View ArticleExplainer: Why Do Politicians Suspend Their Campaigns?
When it comes time to drop out of a political race, candidates’ preferred language has overwhelmingly become that they are “suspending” their campaign.On Tuesday, Rick Santorum became the latest member...
View ArticleWhat's On Herman Cain's CainTV?
Some celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks and cookouts. Herman Cain celebrated with cartoon dinosaurs and a declaration of his own: “We are not stupid.”This is the stuff of CainTV, a new website...
View ArticleRNC Dispatch: For a GOP Insider, Convention a High School Reunion
After the uncertainty caused by Hurricane Isaac on Monday, Republicans got down to business in earnest yesterday to nominate Mitt Romney to be their presidential standard-bearer. The feeling in the...
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Can running for president help your bottom line?
Businessman Ross Perot at a campaign event on Nov. 1, 1992. Former presidential candidates have had a wide range of career experiences after running for the White House. Photo by Sam...
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