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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Perry Slumps in Polls, but Not to Romney's Gain — There have been three scientific national polls released of Republican voters since the Sept. 22 debate: a CNN poll that was conducted over the last weekend, and polls by Fox News and Economist/YouGov released on Wednesday.
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Politics, Patterico's Pontifications, Daily Kos, Fox News, The Raw Story, Salon, Swampland, Hot Air and The Daily Dish
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Opinionator:
Is This Man the G.O.P.'s Best Bet for 2012? — Gail Collins: David, are you reconciled to the fact that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee? — David Brooks: Oh, I went through that phase a few weeks ago after the debate at the Reagan library.
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Booman Tribune, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Campaign 2012 and driftglass
Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Mitt Romney to report raising up to $13 million, lower than previous quarter and 2008 pace — WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is on pace to raise between $11 million and $13 million for the latest fund-raising quarter, a haul that would be much lower …
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GOP 12
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Political Memo: Romney Endures More G.O.P. Flirtation With Alternatives
Political Memo: Romney Endures More G.O.P. Flirtation With Alternatives
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Washington Post, Guardian, msnbc.com, Erick's blog, Poll Watch Daily, New York Magazine and The Page
Reuters:
Complex calendar gives Mitt edge
Complex calendar gives Mitt edge
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CNN, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com and Swampland
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Romney addresses his Achilles' heel
Romney addresses his Achilles' heel
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Politics, msnbc.com, Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice and No More Mister Nice Blog
Serena Williams / The Onion:
Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage — WASHINGTON—Brandishing shotguns and semiautomatic pistols, members of the 112th U.S. Congress took a class of visiting schoolchildren hostage this morning, barricading themselves inside the Capitol rotunda, where they remain at press time.
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Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
The Onion's tweets about Capitol gunfire prompt panic, mockery — The Onion, a satirical news Web site and newspaper known for its ability to elicit peals of laughter, isn't getting too many guffaws on this one. The site tweeted Thursday: — The site also posted the news to its Facebook page.
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msnbc.com, Business Insider, Gothamist, Boing Boing and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
Onion takes heat from Capitol Police after tweets about gunfire
Onion takes heat from Capitol Police after tweets about gunfire
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The Politico
Maya Rodriguez / WWL-TV:
Anti-Obama sign in Uptown neighborhood draws controversy — NEW ORLEANS — There are several political signs attracting all kinds of attention in one Uptown neighborhood. — On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the corner of Calhoun and Coralie streets, looking at several signs depicting President Barack Obama …
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Michelle Malkin, Hullabaloo, The Crawdad Hole, The Hinterland Gazette and First Draft
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Stephen Gutowski / MRCTV:
Liberals Try to Remove Anti-Obama Signs in New Orleans
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Garofalo: GOP using Herman Cain ‘to keep the racism very covert’ — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is a first-tier candidate in two separate polls in the race for the nomination, but B-list comedian Janeane Garofalo says it's just cover to hide the GOP's racism.
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Politics, Verum Serum, Hot Air and Mediaite
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New York Post:
Christie seriously considering presidential bid after GOP prodding — By JOSH MARGOLIN in New York and S.A. MILLER in Washington — After months of hedging, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is giving serious thought to jumping into the ring for a GOP presidential run — and could make his decision next week, The Post has learned.
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Guardian, GOP 12, The Daily Caller, City Room, The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
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Joel Siegel / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Is New Jersey Governor Too Overweight to Become President? — For Chris Christie, there was no way around it. “In case you haven't noticed, I'm slightly overweight,” he said during a debate in his successful campaign for governor. — Two years later, Christie is the man …
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Outside the Beltway, Ben Smith's Blog, Politics and Trail Blazers Blog
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Democrats Dispirited About Voting in 2012 — Republicans' enthusiasm for voting matches 2004 and exceeds 2008 — PRINCETON, NJ — In thinking about the 2012 presidential election, 45% of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual …
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Washington Monthly, Don Surber, Outside the Beltway, Poll Watch Daily, CNN, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair:
California and Bust — The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario. After a hair-raising visit with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who explains why the Golden State has cratered …
John Rossomando / The Daily Caller:
More solar companies led by Democratic donors received federal loan guarantees — A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees …
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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Big Government, Campaign 2012 and Pajamas Media
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
GOP's Solyndra probe threatens to ensnare Energy Secretary Chu
GOP's Solyndra probe threatens to ensnare Energy Secretary Chu
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The Politico and JammieWearingFool
Joe Kemp / NY Daily News:
Shocking video shows attempted murder of teen outside Brooklyn McDonald's — Three toughs pulled off a choreographed plan to pass a gun between them like a hot potato before one of them opened fire at a teen outside a Brooklyn McDonald's - and all of it was caught on camera.
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ANIMAL, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
KFSN-TV:
Teacher penalizes students for saying “bless you” — FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Northern California teacher says he doesn't want to hear a common courtesy in his classroom. — He's even lowering students' grades if they say “bless you” after someone sneezes.
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Mediaite, Examiner and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
New York Post:
A ‘Furious’ revelation — This just might be the smoking gun we've been waiting for to break the festering “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money …
Scottrose / pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com:
Breaking: anti-gay N.C. Senator Forrester falsifies credentials - and an open letter to the lawmaker — NOTE FROM PAM: It's sad that a lawmaker, namely North Carolina State Senator James Forrester, is so blinded by ignorance and bigotry that he embarrasses himself — and his cause …
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ThinkProgress, Holy Bullies …, Good As You and Joe. My. God.
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Will Seek Health Care Law Waiver To Establish Single Payer In His State — Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) wants to design his own universal health care system. — As ThinkProgress previously reported, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) made history earlier this year …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: A disaster for civil liberties — He may prove the most disastrous president in our history in terms of civil liberties. — President Obama failed to close Guantanamo Bay, continued warrantless surveillance and military tribunals and asserted the right to kill U.S. citizens he views as terrorists.
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The Atlantic Online, Opinion L.A. and Cato @ Liberty
New York Times:
Killing the Recovery — The world has barely dug out of recession and the global economy is again slowing dangerously. Most leaders seem eager to make things even worse. — Instead of looking for ways to reignite growth, Europe's leaders — and Republicans on Capitol Hill — are determined to slash public spending.
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The Huffington Post and TalkLeft
Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:
Bank of America to charge $5 monthly fee for debit card users — Bank of America customers with basic checking accounts will be hit with a $5 monthly fee in order to use a debit card for purchases, the bank announced Thursday. — Banks and card companies have been aggressively establishing …
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Pajamas Media, Business Insider and National Review
Mariah Blake / Washington Monthly:
Revisionaries — How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids' textbooks. — Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick home in a suburb near Bryan, Texas. When he greeted me at the door one evening last October …
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ThinkProgress
Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
Draft spending bill would defund Obama healthcare law — House Republicans released a draft spending bill Thursday that would cut off funding for many parts of the healthcare reform law, though the bill remains deadlocked in the Appropriations Committee. — The draft legislation would attempt to derail implementation of the law.
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The Politico
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Man Is Held in a Plan to Bomb Washington — BOSTON — A 26-year-old man from a town west of Boston was charged Wednesday with plotting to blow up the Pentagon and the United States Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft filled with plastic explosives. — The suspect, Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland …
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Boston Globe, Little Green Footballs, Outside the Beltway, The Monkey Cage, New York Magazine, Creekside, tpmmuckraker … and The Hill
Daily Mail:
Ladies and gentleman, we are currently cruising down Wall Street because we are fed up with our bosses! Pilots stage protest — Wall Street saw yet another surge in protesters today - as hundreds of Continental and United Airlines pilots demonstrated in New York City's financial district.
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Balloon Juice and The Agonist
New York Post:
Exclusive: Crook busted after robbing same bank for third day in row — Now that's customer loyalty. — A greedy bank robber starred in his own criminal version of “Groundhog Day” — holding up the same downtown Sovereign branch on three consecutive days before he was finally busted yesterday, police sources told The Post yesterday.
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Gothamist