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11:55 AM ET, October 4, 2011

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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.
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Sources: Christie's Out  —  Trenton, N.J. - New Jersey Republicans tell National Review Online that Gov. Chris Christie will not run for president.  The governor, they predict, will make this clear at a press conference this afternoon.  Per his schedule, he'll meet with reporters at 1 p.m. outside his office.
Washington Post:
Chris Christie not running for president in 2012, source says  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has decided not to run for president in 2012, according to a source informed of his thinking.  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during the Perspectives on Leadership Forum …
Jonathan Karl / Politics:
Chris Christie Not Running for President  —  Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will not run for president, according to a source with direct knowledge of the governor's thinking.  —  By deciding not to run, Christie is refusing the pleas …
Discussion: The Other McCain and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
Fund-Raiser Offers Clues on Governor's Intentions  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has kept the political world in suspense for weeks over his presidential intentions, told prominent California fund-raisers and donors as recently as last Wednesday he had no plans to seek the White House.
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Chris Christie to hold 1 p.m. press conference, expected to announce presidential plans  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. today where he is expected to announce his decision on a 2012 presidential bid, a spokeswoman says.
Gary Langer / Politics:
Obama Seen as Underdog - but Against Whom?
Discussion: Hotline On Call and Big Government
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.
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Top 5 Reasons Why The Occupy Wall Street Protests Embody Values Of The Real Boston Tea Party
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Judson Berger / Fox News:
Wall Street Protesters Brewing Tea Party of the Left? Not Yet, Strategists Say
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Obama is Hitler: Hank Williams Jr. Impersonates a Tea Party Sign on Fox & Friends
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
White House kept Democratic senators hanging on the phone  —  President Obama's relations with Senate Democratic leaders are deteriorating along with his poll numbers.  —  With Obama's approval ratings at record lows and the 2012 electoral map favoring Senate Republicans …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: Senate's China currency bill a ‘dangerous’ move
Discussion: The Politico
Washington Examiner:   York: Clinton polishes image at Obama's expense
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:   Senate votes 79-19 to move bill punishing China on currency
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's risky immigration play  —  Mitt Romney has finally found a groove on the right.  But he could find himself stuck there if he wins the GOP nomination.  —  With Romney's recent move to wield the immigration issue as a club against Rick Perry — painting him as “soft” …
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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.
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters.org blogs:
George Lopez: Cain ‘Darker Than Obama, But Whiter On The Inside’  —  On Monday's “Fox and Friends,” liberal comedian George Lopez all but threw the “Oreo” racial slur at Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain: “The Republicans do know that he's darker than Barack Obama...but whiter on the inside.”
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Herman Cain: ‘Black walnut’ rising in polls
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Examiner:
‘Durbin fee’ will cost bank customers billions  —  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) conducts a news conference in the Rock Island Country Market grocery store in Rock Island, Ill. on Sept. 30, 2011 to discuss reforms to the debit interchange system that will go into effect on Oct. 1, 2011.
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Bank Of America Debit Card Fee Leads To Legislative Response
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Most want taxes on millionaires increased  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto  —  Most Americans believe that taxes on millionaires should be increased in order to reduce the deficit, according to a new CBS News poll.
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Docs show Holder was informed of Fast and Furious in 2010  —  Attorney General Eric Holder was issued multiple memos from senior Justice Department officials about a controversial gun-tracking operation months before he said he first became aware it, according to documents.
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Paul Waldman / TAPPED:
Stupid Answers to Stupid Questions  —  Appearing on Fox News Sunday yesterday, Herman Cain had this exchange with host Chris Wallace about Cain's “9-9-9” tax plan, which involves a 9 percent income tax, a 9 percent sales tax, and a 9 percent corporate tax: … I don't know who's being dumber here.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Can't Bring Himself To Condemn Jeering Of Gay Soldier  —  Mitt Romney couldn't bring himself to condemn the booing of a gay soldier serving in Iraq during an interview with the the editor and publisher of the Union Leader yesterday.  The former Massachusetts governor admitted that he heard …
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: The jobs bill is dead  —  It's not much of a surprise, I guess.  The American Jobs Act never had a particularly good chance of passing the House.  But as of yesterday, it's officially dead.  Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn't even pretending the two sides will work something out.
Cath Elliott / Guardian:
Facebook is fine with hate speech, as long as it's directed at women |  Cath Elliott  —  The social network's ‘jokes in the pub’ analogy, defending its decision not to take down pro-rape pages, is offensive  —  It doesn't matter how hard I study Facebook's terms and conditions …
Discussion: Pharyngula and Harry's Place
 
 
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Iranian Pastor Increasingly Likely to Face Death Penalty Under New Charges
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Foreign Aid Set to Take a Hit in U.S. Budget Crisis
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Misrepresentations, Regulations and Jobs
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