What part will Herman Cain play in 2012?

What part will Herman Cain play in 2012?

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Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) Morus examines the candidate leading the GOP polls It’s not easy for the party outwith the White House to unseat a sitting (elected) President. Since the last depression, FDR, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and GW Bush all strode to re-election. Truman retired, JFK was shot, Johnson beaten by his own party, Ford was never elected. Carter would be unique, were it not for the three-way split caused by Ross Perot that allowed Clinton to beat GHW…

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After the resignation, what’s in the Sundays?

After the resignation, what’s in the Sundays?

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Could taxes on flights (and facelifts?) be a political battleground? Fox may be firmly back at home and on the backbenches (and how many of you had winning bets on his departure – or Hammond’s arrival?), but the reverberations continue in today’s Sunday papers. The Sunday Telegraph reports that Werritty received money from donors to “promote their political agenda but were furious to discover the cash was used to fund his lavish lifestyle” – and donors expecting to remain secret…

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Who won and who lost from the Fox-hunt?

Who won and who lost from the Fox-hunt?

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Wikimedia Commons Where do the week’s events leave the Next Tory Leader market? After the kill, politics moves on quickly. With Fox having resigned, the media interest in what his friend Adam Werritty did, knew, and where the funding for it came from is likely to dwindle rapidly. There may be further revelations this weekend because the media will have invested in the investigation but that should then be that. Even if Gus O’Donnell’s report is made public, the coverage…

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Is Hammond set to become Cameron’s John Reid?

Is Hammond set to become Cameron’s John Reid?

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Should you take the 4/6 against him replacing Fox? I’m still on holiday in Spain and was determined not to post until next Friday – but this afternoon’s resignation of Liam Fox has prompted me to my lap-top. Ladbrokes were fast off the mark getting up a Fox replacement market and this has Philip Hammond as the 4/6 favourite. The price is a bit too tight for me but he is, surely, the minister best placed to take over. In…

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