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We were wrong about Herman Cain and sexual harassment
http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | 11/4/2011 | By Alexandra Petri

Posted on 11/04/2011 6:26:08 PM PDT by Maelstorm

Maybe we were reading these sexual harassment allegations wrong.

They don’t seem to have hurt Cain at all. If anything, they’ve made him stronger. A Washington Post-ABC Poll found him still nearly tied with Romney in the polls — even after the allegations made news!

The Monday after they surfaced was a banner day for fundraising Cain. More than a million dollars of donations reportedly poured in. Maybe the Rick Perry staffer who so cleverly traveled back to the past to seed these allegations more than a decade ago should have thought harder. So far, they seem to be having the opposite of their expected effect.

“We were worried that ‘sexual harassment’ might be going too far,” someone murmurs in a bunker. “It’s a touchy subject. It’s not as clear-cut as an affair. It’s like pornography — you know it when you see it, and you try to keep it out of the office. But it turns out people enjoy a salacious sideline to their daily barrage of 2012 news.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
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To: org.whodat

The article doesn’t say who initiated the interview. Wilson was involved with the NRA at the time of the alleged incidents, and is a somewhat known pollster. So the station could have called him to ask if he knew anything. Or he could have done it. he is a sleeze, like I said before. It’s just that there is no evidence that he was a source for the politico story.

There’s also no evidence that he ever discussed anything with the Perry campaign, but that’s a whole other guilt-by-association thing.


101 posted on 11/05/2011 1:16:02 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: eyedigress; PJ-Comix

Remember those old days where we would affectionately say ‘Rove, you magnificent bastard!’. While talking about how ‘Kurt Grove’ was sabotaging the Democratic campaign with his advice?

Fun times.


102 posted on 11/05/2011 2:34:26 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.)
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To: PhilDragoo

Yeah... The Terrible Triumverate.....one anonymous.


103 posted on 11/06/2011 3:21:50 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: sickoflibs; Maelstorm; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385; mkjessup

” One of the alleged victim’s settlement dates was 9-9-9 (9/99) her lawyer claimed today. Cain is driving them nuts. “

Evidently..


104 posted on 11/06/2011 3:23:24 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Texas Fossil
I saw him interviewed and he said "I was there with alot of other people and saw some of those instances"..

There is no denying he claims to have seen one person made "uncomfortable".

105 posted on 11/06/2011 3:30:15 AM PST by DainBramage
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