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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Perry raises $17 million — Siren, as they say: … The $17 million figure, which a Perry spokesman confirms to me, is almost as much as Mitt Romney raised in his first quarter as a declared presidential candidate this year. — It's also more than Rudy Giuliani and John McCain raised …
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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 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Hot Air exclusive: Perry raises $17.1 million in Q3 — A source on the Rick Perry campaign tells Hot Air that the Texas governor conducted some Texas-size fundraising in the third quarter. Coming in just a little over halfway through, Perry raised $17.1 million.
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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Herman, Cain, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney to boycott Univision debate over Rubio report
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The Politico:
Mitt Romney's moment
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Perry Plummets, Cain Surges in Positive Intensity
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
With Christie Out, Republican Race Begins for Real
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie won't run for president: Now what?
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Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
Push for President Obama's jobs bill illustrates the art of beating a dead horse — “Why don't we just pretend he didn't die? Just for a bit!” — Larry Wilson in “Weekend at Bernie's” — It might help to think of the American Jobs Act as Elvis. — The King made $60 million last year even though he died in 1977.
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Matt DoBias / The Politico:
Reid considers surtax on millionaires — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is eyeing a tax on the nation's highest earners as a way to defray some of the $447 billion price tag for the White House-written jobs package-a move that would shift attention away from its underlying policies and more towards party politics.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Senate Democrats forced to block Obama's jobs bill
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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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Alicia Ciccone / The Huffington Post:
Occupy Wall Street Causing Problems On Main Street
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David Weigel / Slate:
House Progressives Embrace #occupywallstreet
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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 …
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Pete Kennedy / Food Freedom:
Wisconsin Judge Rules No Right to Own a Cow or Drink Its Milk — WI Judge to Zinniker, FTCLDF: No “Fundamental Right to Own a Cow, or Consume Its Milk... Am I Making Myself Clear?” — ~ David Gumpert — FTCLDF — In a decision denying basic property rights and even exceeding …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Poll sees a new low in Americans' approval of Congress — View Photo Gallery — New polling shows congressional popularity is at an all-time low of 14 percent. You'd be surprised at some of the things in history that have been more popular than the current Congress.
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William Creeley / FIRE:
Getting It Right: Dean of George Mason Law Sets Excellent Example — All too often here at FIRE, we find ourselves up to our necks in campus censorship. For example, in just the last few weeks, we've seen a professor threatened by campus police for posting a sci-fi quote and a coalition …
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Michael W. McConnell / Wall Street Journal:
Washington Wants a Say Over Your Minister — The Supreme Court weighs whether the feds can decide which church employees are clergy and which aren't. — Today, the Obama administration will invite the Supreme Court to open a new front in the culture wars.
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National Review and LewRockwell.com Blog
Lisa Pollack / FT Alphaville:
Quantum leap: EuroTARP — The FT's report yesterday that policy makers may finally be getting around to throwing a TARP over European banks has sure got people talking. Will Dexia go down as the unwitting catalyst to addressing the lingering questions around bank solvency?
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Grasping Reality … and MarketBeat
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
CBS News Reporter Says White House Screamed, Swore at Her Over Fast and Furious — The Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Justice Department knowingly gave Mexican criminal gangs thousands of guns, just keeps escalating. The latest development centers around whether …
Jason Noble / Iowa Caucuses:
College students change Michele Bachmann's plans for event in Grinnell — Grinnell, Ia. - Michele Bachmann's appearance at a fundraiser on a pumpkin farm here this evening was delayed and then curtailed after several dozen Grinnell College students showed up.
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PewResearch.org:
War and Sacrifice in the Post-9/11 Era — 5 October 11 As the United States marks the 10th anniversary of the longest period of sustained warfare in its history, the overwhelming majority of veterans of the post-9/11 era are proud of their military service.
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and The Politico
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Opposition to Obama grows — strongly — Four in 10 Americans “strongly” disapprove of how President Obama is handling job as president in the new Washington Post-ABC News poll, the highest that number has risen during his time in office and a sign of the hardening opposition to him as he seeks a second term.
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Public Citizen:
Obama Just Flip-Flopped Right off the Trade Cliff; Congress Must Slam on the Brakes Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch — By asking Congress to approve three NAFTA-style trade deals signed by former President George Bush, President Barack Obama …
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Union chief implores liberal activists to get Obama's back on jobs proposal
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