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Nov. 10, 2011
Rick Perry did Herman Cain a favor in the Michigan GOP debate. By failing to remember the name of the third federal agency he intended to shut down if elected president, he claimed unflattering next-day headlines that might have otherwise at least been shared by Cain.
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Nov. 10, 2011
You know you didn't have a good night as a presidential candidate if you need to get up early to do a round of morning show interviews in which you have to assert you're staying in the race.
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Nov. 9, 2011
Two high-profile ballot measures in Ohio and Mississippi headlined this year's off-year elections, and both were resoundingly defeated Tuesday.
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Nov. 8, 2011
GOP hopeful Herman Cain went before cameras late Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz. to deny allegations made by a Chicago-area woman that he made unwanted sexual advances toward her more than a decade ago. Judy Woodruff and Political Editor David Chalian discuss the scandal's impact on Cain's bid for the White House.
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Nov. 8, 2011
Both Mississippi and Kentucky are home to gubernatorial contests Tuesday, but those elections for the highest office in the state are being overshadowed by controversial and base-energizing ballot measures in Ohio and Mississippi.
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Nov. 7, 2011
A new ABC/Washington Post poll tested a number of GOP candidate attributes and found that Mitt Romney is running even or behind on each of them other than electability.
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Nov. 4, 2011
In a confident but cautious pitch to reporters Friday at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DCCC Chairman Rep.
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Nov. 4, 2011
The October jobs report shows that stubbornly high unemployment continues to hang over America's economic psyche. And no matter how successful President Obama is at preventing a double-dip recession, the impact of high unemployment on the country's continued pessimism remains his political problem.
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Nov. 3, 2011
With the 2012 presidential election a year away, the Pew Research Center examines the state of the American electorate and the divisions that fall along age lines. Judy Woodruff reports.
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Nov. 3, 2011
Herman Cain has stopped talking about the sexual harassment allegations against him. It's a new strategy for the embattled GOP contender who has been leading in the polls for the last few weeks.
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Nov. 2, 2011
From the moment Politico broke the Herman Cain story on Sunday evening, it seemed inevitable that more facts and details would emerge about the claims of sexual harassment against the Republican presidential contender when he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s.
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Nov. 1, 2011
Heading into the second 24 hours of a candidacy consuming story, Herman Cain has several things going for him. Foremost, there have been no additional facts brought to light beyond what Politico initially reported Sunday evening about two women who claimed to have been on the receiving end of inappropriate behavior.
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Oct. 31, 2011
In an interview with Judy Woodruff, Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain said Monday that allegations that he sexually harassed two women were "baffling" and, that in his opinion, his behavior had not been inappropriate. He also discussed his foreign policy plans and his 9-9-9 tax plan.
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Oct. 31, 2011
In an interview with The PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff on Monday afternoon, Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain said allegations that he sexually harassed two women were "baffling" and, that in his opinion, his behavior had not been inappropriate.
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Oct. 31, 2011
This was supposed to be the week that Herman Cain won over some establishment street cred without damaging his outsider brand. But it will most certainly not be the week Cain envisioned, as he's likely to face questions regarding a POLITICO story about two women who accused him of sexual harassment in the late 1990s.
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Oct. 28, 2011
A day after Democrats on the bipartisan supercommittee leaked a proposal to "go big" and reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over 10 years by cutting entitlement spending and raising taxes, Republicans introduced a counteroffer: $2.2 trillion in deficit reduction that includes cuts but no tax increases.
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Oct. 27, 2011
He is leading in the national polls. He is running a close second to Mitt Romney in early and critical nominating states. His campaign claims it is raising more than $1 million per week. But Herman Cain can't seem to cross the critical threshold with the Republican establishment, the press and, most importantly, the voters.
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Oct. 26, 2011
As the early stages of the 2012 campaign progress, a new question has come into play: Are the rich really different? Or, more specifically, should they be treated differently in the U.S. tax code?
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Oct. 26, 2011
Mitt Romney made an about-face Wednesday during a campaign stop for Virginia Republicans and wholeheartedly endorsed an Ohio ballot measure that would restrict the right for public employees to bargain collectively.
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Oct. 26, 2011
Mitt Romney stopped by an Ohio Republican Party phone bank on Tuesday to support a get-out-the-vote effort for an off-year, big ballot initiative in a couple of weeks. The support he lent, however, appeared to be only rhetorical in nature.
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Oct. 25, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry came out of the gate in the 2012 Republican nomination process with a bang: After announcing his candidacy on Aug. 13, Perry dominated many of the polls by mid-September. He has since plunged in the polls.
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Oct. 25, 2011
GOP hopeful and Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled his flat-tax proposal Tuesday at a South Carolina plastics plant. Judy Woodruff discusses his and other candidates' ideas for reforming the U.S. tax code with Stephen Moore of the conservative Club for Growth and Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect magazine.
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Oct. 25, 2011
With just over two months to go before the Iowa caucuses kick off the nominating process, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is in the midst of a campaign re-launch to get his White House bid back on course.
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Oct. 24, 2011
With millions of Americans "underwater" on their mortgages and millions of homes facing foreclosure, President Obama unveiled a revamped home-loan refinancing program Monday during a stop in Nevada, which has the country's highest foreclosure rate. Judy Woodruff and guests examine the politics and substance of the plan.
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Oct. 24, 2011
White House advisers unveiled a new focus on executive actions President Obama can take in the face of congressional opposition to his jobs bill. Team Obama is moving from "pass this bill" to "we can't wait."
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Oct. 21, 2011
Why are there rumors every presidential cycle that the incumbent will switch his (so far his) vice president out for someone else? Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times Columnist David Brooks weigh in on that idea as well as whether the Occupy Wall Street movement is a liability for President Obama.
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Oct. 21, 2011
President Obama's plan to break his jobs bill into pieces doesn't seem to be enhancing the chances that legislation actually gets to his desk for his signature. The Senate blocked the first stand-alone measure, one that was aimed at providing states with federal aid to retain or hire teachers, police officers and firefighters.
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Oct. 20, 2011
The newly combative tone dominating the Republican nomination race is likely to stay with us for the next few months. In the 36 hours since the CNN debate in Las Vegas concluded, the skirmishing between the campaigns has remained at a boil.
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Oct. 19, 2011
The Tuesday night debate in Las Vegas among seven Republican presidential hopefuls proved to be a far more contentious affair than any of the previous encounters.
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Oct. 18, 2011
As the 2012 Republican candidates prepare for Tuesday night's debate in Las Vegas, two new polls show why the battle for the nomination has thus far felt like a campaign of debates and little more.