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8:20 PM ET, October 4, 2011

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David Brooks / New York Times:
In Defense of Romney  —  Over the past several months, Mitt Romney has been an excellent presidential candidate.  He has performed superbly in the debates.  He has outorganized his rivals.  He has relentlessly stayed on his core theme of putting Americans back to work.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cainmentum  —  Is the new Republican frontrunner Herman Cain?  Maybe for this week anyway.  PPP polled Republican primary voters in three pretty different states over the weekend- North Carolina, Nebraska, and West Virginia- and found Cain leading the way in each of them as Newt Gingrich surged …
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Herman Cain rises, Rick Perry slides in new CBS News poll  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  Herman Cain has moved into a tie with Mitt Romney atop the field of Republican presidential candidates …
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney to boycott Univision debate over Rubio report  —  Four Republican presidential candidates are boycotting a proposed Univision debate due to allegations that the Spanish-language media giant tried to strongarm Sen. Marco Rubio …
Discussion: Ballot Box
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Rick Perry slips, Herman Cain rises in bid for GOP nomination, poll finds  —  After a quick rise in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has experienced an almost equally dramatic decline, losing about half of his support over the past month, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Washington Post:
Chris Christie not running for president in 2012, source says
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie won't run for president: Now what?
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Bachmann: Now that Christie's made his decision ‘I think the table is set’
Discussion: CNN and Iowa Caucuses
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Who are the 99 percent?  —  “I did everything I was supposed to and I have nothing to show for it.”  —  It's not the arrests that convinced me that “Occupy Wall Street” was worth covering seriously.  Nor was it their press strategy, which largely consisted of tweeting journalists to cover …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
On Wall Street, a Protest Matures  —  “I think a good deal of the bankers should be in jail.”  —  That is what Andrew Cole, an unemployed 24-year-old graduate of Bucknell University, told me Monday morning in Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
David Weigel / Slate:
House Progressives Embrace #occupywallstreet
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Michelle Malkin:
Progressive of Pallor on pointless parade
Alicia Ciccone / The Huffington Post:
Occupy Wall Street Causing Problems On Main Street
Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
What Occupy DC wants: Less corporate money in politics
Discussion: Campaign 2012
Fox News:
House Republicans Request Special Counsel to Probe Holder on ‘Fast and Furious’  —  EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Sarah Palin-affiliated law firm made early-state deadline inquiries  —  Ken Vogel and I both have sources telling us that calls were made on behalf of a mystery candidate to various early states to determine presidential filing deadlines.  —  The calls were made by representatives …
Amanda Knox / The Daily Beast:
Money Dispute May End ‘Simpsons’  —  A money dispute between Fox and the actors who voice the characters on The Simpsons may force the long-running hit series to shut down next spring.  Lloyd Grove reports exclusively.  —  As Homer Simpson would put it, “D'oh!”
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Herman Cain: ‘Show Me The Science’ That Being Gay Is Not A Choice  —  The ladies of The View today challenged newly crowned Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain on his beliefs about homosexuality.  He confirmed that he would bring back Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and “Yes,” he believes being gay is a choice.
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid blocks attempt by McConnell to vote on president's jobs bill  —  In a lively spat on the Senate floor Tuesday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) attempted call up President Obama's jobs plan for an immediate vote in the upper chamber.  —  However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: TPMDC and Weasel Zippers
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Dan Scandling / Congressman Frank R. Wolf:
Wolf: Grover Norquist's Relationships Should Give People Pause  —  Washington, D.C. - In a speech today on the House floor, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) expressed concern about Grover Norquist's influence on the political process in Washington and his association with several individuals, groups and causes many would consider unsavory.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Wolf rips Norquist, tax pledge
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Warren Buffett says he will release his tax return if Rupert Murdoch does  —  The billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Tuesday that he would release his tax returns if NewsCorp chairman Rupert Murdoch does.  —  Buffett's finances became a political target after President Obama made the …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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ProPublica:
Secret Docs Show Foreclosure Watchdog Doesn't Bark or Bite  —  Why has the administration's flagship foreclosure prevention program been so ineffective in helping struggling homeowners get loan modifications and stay in their homes?  One reason: The government's supervision of the program has apparently ranged from nonexistent to weak.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Spencer And Geller Disavow Anti-Muslim Activist's Call For Violence, Say He Was Never A Board Member  —  Responding to ThinkProgress, anti-Muslim activists Robert Spencer and Pam Geller disavowed any connections to John Joseph Jay, who recently wrote a blog post calling for the mass murder of politicians, journalists, and others.
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town  —  ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — The vanishing began Wednesday night, the most frightened families packing up their cars as soon as they heard the news.  —  They left behind mobile homes, sold fully furnished for a thousand dollars or even less.
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Mitt Romney forecasts first lady role for his wife  —  Mitt Romney's not only laying out plans for his own time in the White House: He's got a role sketched out for his wife, Ann, as first lady, too.  —  “My wife is gorgeous and she is the brains in the outfit. ...
Discussion: CNN
New York Magazine:
In Which We Inform Samuel L. Jackson About N-ggerhead  —  Samuel L. Jackson at last night's benefit.  —  On Sunday morning, the Washington Post ran its bombshell story about the racist name of the a hunting camp that the Perry family has leased on and off since the early eighties.
IPS: Latest Content:
America Loses: Corporations That Take “Tax Holidays” Slash Jobs  —  Some of America's most flush corporations are demanding a tax holiday on their profits sitting offshore.  But the last holiday produced a nasty hangover.
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Gingrich surprises Al Sharpton with birthday wish  —  Al Sharpton got an unlikely surprise birthday greeting Monday from Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.  —  “I figured I would be the least likely phone call you'll get tonight,” Gingrich said on the phone during Sharpton's MSNBC show “Politics Nation.”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Public Citizen:
Obama Just Flip-Flopped Right off the Trade Cliff; Congress Must Slam on the Brakes Statement …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Joanne Huist Smith / Dayton Daily News:
Early voting for Nov. 8 begins today
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Immelt: ‘Our job is to make our ideas his ideas’
Discussion: Political Mojo and ThinkProgress
Michael Ruane / Washington Post:
National Cathedral reopens Nov. 12, but needs $15 million for earthquake damage and expenses
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
CNBC:
US Factory Orders Fell Unexpectedly in August
Discussion: Don Surber
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Poll: Marylanders split on gay marriage, immigrant tuition
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Perry's weird science
Will Ripley / KUSA-TV:
Pizza delivery guy calls cops on customer who smoked marijuana
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Wall Street Journal:
The Definition of Insanity
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
John Boehner's Anti-Gay Lawyer Gets A Million-Dollar Bump At Taxpayer Expense
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