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Herman Cain: 'I Like My Guns And My Bible'

Posted 12.19.2011

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A day after opponents assailed his controversial "999" tax plan during the latest GOP debate, Herman Cain was hardly backing down from his core convic...

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Chaotic, Contentious CNN Debate Featured Several Strange Arguments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.19.2011

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If you've a taste for watching well-heeled aristocrats completely crack up and come within a hair's breadth of a broken bottle fight, you could have d...

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Top 10 Best Moments From the GOP Debate

Katie Halper | Posted 12.19.2011

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Michele Bachmann vows, "I will build a double-walled fence." It is unclear whether she moonlights in construction or will have her 23 children build the fence.

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Go, Newt, Go! Gingrich Super Committee Slam Highlights GOP Fashion Event Debate

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.19.2011

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To say there's a lot that's wrong about Newt Gingrich's candidacy is putting it mildly. (For one thing, its candidate is Newt Gingrich.) But he was right on the money last night when it came to the so-called "Super Committee."

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Romney and Perry and Cain, Oh My!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.19.2011

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Romney exposed Cain's 9-9-9 for the sham it is; won the alpha male contest with Perry; shut down Santorum; smartly ignored Michele Bachmann; and got uber-arrogant Newt Gingrich to admit that he was for an individual mandate before he was against it.

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Debate News Flash: Republican Candidates Repudiate Bush/Paulson TARP Giveaway

Larry Hirsch | Posted 12.19.2011

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Among many amusing moments watching the Republican debate was seeing how they condemned the 2008 TARP plan to bail out the financial industry. They all made it sound like it was some Democratic government giveaway, which could not be further from the truth.

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Sort the Fruit

James Moore | Posted 12.19.2011

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The most important unresolved question of CNN's GOP debate in Las Vegas may be how to tell an apple from an orange.

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Wayne Newton Reacts To GOP Debate, Endorses Candidate

Posted 12.19.2011

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In the spin room after the GOP debate, there was one person to whom everyone turned for his take on who won the night: Wayne Newton. Yes, "Mr. Las ...

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GOP Las Vegas Debate, Huntsman

Jeff Danziger | Posted 12.19.2011

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Vegas Debate Shows It's Romney Versus Perry

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.18.2011

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LAS VEGAS -- The Republican debate here Tuesday night made one thing very clear: It's Romney versus Perry. Rick Perry, the Texas governor, has fall...

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Republican Presidential Candidates Misfire On Big Issues

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 12.18.2011

WASHINGTON — Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan ignited plenty of sparks in the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, as did testy exchanges b...

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Jobs, Foreclosures Largely Absent In GOP Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.18.2011

LAS VEGAS -- The Republican presidential debate Tuesday was hosted by the state with the highest unemployment rate in the nation, beset by an ongoing ...

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Biggest Gaffe Of The Night At Las Vegas Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.18.2011

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Here's a matter that I missed commenting on but wanted to circle back to once the debate was over. What was the biggest gaffe of tonight's debate? Wel...

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What Happened in Vegas: The Romney-Perry Bout

Alan Schroeder | Posted 12.18.2011

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Memo to future debate producers: Cut the extraneous set-up material. And don't move Romney away from Perry on the debate stage. The dynamic between these two candidates is too compelling to tamper with.

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Herman Cain, Barack Obama: The Real Winners Of Las Vegas Debate

Howard Fineman | Posted 12.18.2011

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The winners of Tuesday night's GOP debate: Herman Cain and President Obama. With the devastating accuracy of a CIA drone, the Republican candidates zeroed in on their own party's chances with exchanges that played right into Democrats' hands on a series of issues, from immigration to taxes. And while Mitt Romney and Rick Perry behaved like petulant, name-calling schoolboys, Herman Cain weathered a half-hour assault on his 999 plan, with which CNN began the debate. In this environment, Rick Santorum sounded almost mild and reasonable, which gives you an idea of what kind of a night it was.

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Bachmann Flubs African Geography

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.18.2011

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) criticized President Obama's foreign policy during Tuesday night's CNN debate, saying, "Now with the president, he put...

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Romney, Santorum Get Into Heated Exchange At GOP Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.18.2011

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Former Governor Mitt Romney came under attack for his health care overhaul in Massachusetts during the last half of the first segment of Tuesday night...

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LIVE UPDATES: GOP Presidential Candidates Face Off In Sin City

Posted 12.18.2011

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On Tuesday night, seven candidates competing for the Republican presidential nomination are facing off in Sin City in a primary debate. The followi...

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GOP Faces Off In Vegas Amid Controversy

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.18.2011

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LAS VEGAS -- The two Republican front-runners set the stage for Tuesday evening's presidential debate by alternately proposing that Americans behind o...

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Democratic Hopefuls Play Nice At Vegas Debate

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 05.25.2011

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An hour into the debate, the candidates embarked on a thirty-second laughing session after a mix-up over whether Barack Obama was trying to aim a ques...

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MSNBC Uninvites Kucinich To Vegas Debate

Mediabistro's TVNewser | Steve Krakauer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich won't be taking part in MSNBC's debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It certainly won't be the first time that Kucinich was excluded f...

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Democrats Debate In Las Vegas

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democratic presidential rivals and their supporters vied for advantage in the courts, on a debate stage and at the ballot box on Tuesday in an unsettl...

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NBC Will Go To Any Length To Exclude Dennis Kucinich From Nevada Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dennis Kucinich may be currently drawing only one percent in the polls, but what a percent! It's apparently sufficient enough to drive all sorts of m...

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Biden Scores With Post-Debate Mashup

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The past two Democratic debates have found the top-tier candidates all a-bicker with one another, a spectacle that reached its apogee at the beginning...

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DoOver Tonight: Clinton's Chance To Undo Damage

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Democrats' first debate out West gives the party's presidential contenders an opportunity to spotlight the region's issues -- though the focus may...

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