The Other McCain

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Denison: Overflow Crowd Hears Herman Cain Slam Obama: ‘That’s Not Leadership!’

DENISON, Iowa Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain today denounced as “pathetic” the response of President Obama and other Democrats to the recent downgrade of U.S. credit. “Today, the president, Senator [John] Kerry and other Democrats now want to blame somebody for the credit downgrade – other than themselves,” Cain told a standing-room only crowd at […]

Sioux City: Herman Cain Begins Iowa Bus Tour With Noon Speech to Jewish Group

SIOUX CITY, Iowa Herman Cain just arrived at Eldon’s Restaurant aboard his spiffy new tour bus: This event is sponsored by the Sioux City Jewish Coaliton. I asked one of the staffers, “Do they have a significant Jewish population in Sioux City?” But the answer was a mystified shrug. Anyway, here is a video tour […]

Fear and Loathing: From Sioux City to Council Bluffs With the Herman Cain Bus

SIOUX CITY, Iowa OK, no more messing around. Time to get seriously into gonzo as I hit the road following Herman Cain’s “Common Sense Solutions” bus tour across the state. Three stops today, covering 150 miles: 11 a.m. Eldon’s Restaurant 3322 Singing Hills Blvd., Sioux City, Iowa Sioux City Jewish Coalition meeting 2:45 p.m. Cronk’s […]

VIDEO: ‘Who Is Herman Cain?’

This is the best video they’ve done yet:

Santorum’s Hope

From my American Spectator column today: SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Perhaps 50 voters showed up Saturday for a campaign event held in a barn on a dirt road amid cornfields near Roland, about 20 miles north of Ames. While a few dozen voters isn’t much of a crowd by Republican presidential campaign standards, the audience […]

Are You Ready for Tonight’s ‘CainCast’?

Press release from the Herman Cain campaign: “CainCast,” a weekly Internet radio show offering an inside look at Herman Cain’s presidential campaign, will premiere at 7:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday, August 7, 2011. “CainCast” will be hosted by Friends of Herman Cain Communications Director Ellen Carmichael and Director of New Media Michael Johnson. The hosts […]

Liberal Head-Explosion Warning VIDEO: Michele Bachmann Testifies for Jesus

SIOUX CITY, Iowa Friday at the rain-soaked Midwest Spirit Christian Music Festival in West Des Moines, I recorded this eight-minute video, but didn’t upload it immediately because the WiFi connection was so crappy at my hotel in Des Moines. But now I’m on a good WiFi link and it’s Sunday, so it seems appropriate to […]

The Santorum Family’s Iowa ‘Vacation’

SIOUX CITY, Iowa Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum brought his entire family — his wife, Karen, and seven kids ages 3 to 20 — to Iowa for his three-week tour leading up to the Aug. 13 Ames Straw Poll. After yesterday’s “barn party” in Roland, I caught Santorum for a minute just before he left, […]

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