• Charlie Pierce of Esquire.com’s Politics Blog calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about Herman Cain’s campaign finance shenanigans and his sexual harassment troubles
• Denying he ever sexually harassed anyone, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain declared Monday he was falsely accused in the 1990s while he was head of the National Restaurant Association and the allegations are surfacing now as part of a “witch hunt.”
• A judge told Tennessee officials on Monday to stop enforcing new rules that have been used to arrest Occupy protesters in Nashville. The decision was a victory for the fledgling movement and for the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, which sought a temporary restraining order to block a curfew put in place last week.
• Herman Cain and Rick Perry lead the pack of Republican presidential candidates in Perry’s home state of Texas (statistically tied at 27% and 26% respectively), with the other GOP hopefuls trailing, according to a new poll released Monday.
• President Barack Obama passed his latest physical checkup with flying colors and is now “tobacco free,” a medical report showed on Monday.
