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9:00 AM ET, September 25, 2011

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St. Petersburg Times:
Herman Cain wins Presidency 5 straw poll  —  ORLANDO — In a stunning upset Saturday, Herman Cain won Florida's Presidency 5 straw poll, a vote of 2,657 Republican activists that in past years has predicted the party nominee.  —  Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza who charmed the three …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Cain upsets Perry at Florida straw poll  —  Businessman Herman Cain scored a major upset Saturday, winning the Florida straw poll and creating a new set of problems for Texas Gov. Rick Perry.  —  The final tally: Cain carried 37% of the vote, Perry 15% and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 14%.
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Delegates slam Perry on immigration  —  ORLANDO, Fla.—Rick Perry hit a roadblock on immigration at Florida's Presidency 5 straw poll on Saturday.  —  An issue that may have less impact in other early-state Republican primaries, immigration is a hot-button issue in Florida …
Discussion: The Other McCain
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Cain wins an upset victory in Florida presidential straw poll  —  Herman Cain pulled off a shocking upset victory in Florida's Presidency 5 Straw Poll on Saturday.  The Georgia businessman won more votes than the Republican primaries frontrunners — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — combined.
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Herman Cain Wins Florida Straw Poll
Kevinliptak / CNN:
TRENDING: Cain upsets Perry as winner of Florida straw poll
Arlette Saenz / Politics:
Rick Perry Takes His Chances on Florida Straw Poll
The Huffington Post:
Herman Cain Wins Florida Straw Poll Ahead Of 2012
Discussion: Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
Colin Moynihan / City Room:
80 Arrested as Financial District Protest Moves North  —  Police officers arrested protesters who had marched from Zuccotti Park to Union Square.  —  The police made scores of arrests on Saturday as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in the financial district as part of a lengthy protest, marched north to Union Square.
BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA LOSES COOL AT BLACK CAUCUS DINNER; ‘STOP COMPLAINING’ AND MARCH  —  President Barack Obama speaking at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Award Dinner in Washington DC.  Recently, members of the CBC have expressed concerns over the job situation in the black community during the Obama Presidency.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama seeks to rally black community behind jobs bill
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Justice After Troy Davis  —  IT'S easy to see why the case of Troy Davis, the Georgia man executed last week for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer, became a cause célèbre for death penalty opponents.  Davis was identified as the shooter by witnesses who later claimed to have been coerced by investigators.
Discussion: Althouse
WSB-TV:
Father upset over homework promoting polygamy, Islam  —  COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A father's complaint that his daughter's homework promotes the Muslim faith could lead to a lesson change in Cobb County.  —  Channel 2's Tom Regan talked to the father who showed him where his daughter's homework …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Jihad Watch
Marisa Schultz / Detroit News:
McCotter: ‘Democratic Party not progressive’  —  Mackinac Island— Two days after the onetime White House hopeful dropped his presidential run, U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told a breakfast crowd House Republicans will not back away from reforming entitlement programs, like Medicare and Social Security.
Fars News Agency:
Egypt's Youths Vow to Raid US Embassy if Palestine Bid at UN Vetoed  —  TEHRAN (FNA)- A group of Egyptian youths in a call via an internet social network called for demonstrations in front of the US Embassy in Cairo to take over the US compound if Washington vetoes the Palestinian bid for UN membership.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Obama 2012 campaign's Operation Vote focuses on ethnic minorities, core liberals  —  President Obama's campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow path to victory in next year's reelection effort.
Discussion: CNN, US Politics and Associated Press
Chris Hastings / Daily Mail:
BBC turns its back on year of Our Lord: 2,000 years of Christianity jettisoned for politically correct ‘Common Era’  —  The BBC has been accused of ‘absurd political correctness’ after dropping the terms BC and AD in case they offend non-Christians.  —  The Corporation has replaced …
Discussion: Biased BBC and Vox Popoli
 
 
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Small Donors Are Slow to Return to the Obama Fold
William Galston / The New Republic:
Left Behind: How Democrats Are Losing the Political Center
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Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
After Report on Speed, a Rush of Scrutiny
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama plays a round of golf with Clinton
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and CNN
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The World Will Be More Crowded — With Old People
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