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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, The Raw Story, Salon, Hot Air, Swampland, Mediaite and The Daily Dish
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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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Business Insider and GOP 12
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
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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Guardian, msnbc.com, The Caucus, Poll Watch Daily, RedState, Fox News, New York Magazine and The Page
Wall Street Journal:
Taking Cain Seriously
Taking Cain Seriously
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Betsy's Page, The New Republic, CBS Philly, CNN and Public Policy Polling
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney, never Republicans' dream date, hopes to be the one they marry
Mitt Romney, never Republicans' dream date, hopes to be the one they marry
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Guardian, msnbc.com, The Caucus and CNSNews
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, Boing Boing, Gothamist 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
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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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, Questions and Observations, Outside the Beltway, Poll Watch Daily, CNN, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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 …
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Wall Street Journal, RedState, Confederate Yankee, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette and The Daily Caller
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Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
ATF Fast and Furious guns turned up in El Paso
ATF Fast and Furious guns turned up in El Paso
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The Washington Independent
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
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Janeane Garofalo: Racist Republicans Support Herman Cain — Janeane Garofalo: “Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican party. Conservative movement and tea party movement, one in the same. ”
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Weasel Zippers, Moonbattery and Pajamas Media
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Garofalo: GOP using Herman Cain ‘to keep the racism very covert’
Garofalo: GOP using Herman Cain ‘to keep the racism very covert’
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Politics, Verum Serum, Hot Air and Mediaite
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Americans reject the right's bogus ‘class warfare’ charge — It's become an article of faith among conservatives — and even some neutral commentators — that Obama'a newly aggressive populism and call for tax hikes on the rich is “class warfare,” a nakedly partisan play for the Democratic base …
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Daily Kos
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Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Fewer than 1 in 3 say Obama favors the ‘have-nots,’ but many say GOP helps the ‘haves’
Fewer than 1 in 3 say Obama favors the ‘have-nots,’ but many say GOP helps the ‘haves’
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THEROOT.COM and Daily Kos
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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Associated Press and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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
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
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.
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
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Register exclusive: Newt Gingrich releases ‘21st Century Contract with America’ — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with his wife, Callista. (AP photo) — Republican Newt Gingrich, who has positioned himself as the idea guy in this presidential campaign, will today call for Americans …
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New York Magazine, Don Surber, Fox News, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and CNN
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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