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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 …
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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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CNN, Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's … and Ben Smith's Blog
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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GOP 12 and Campaign 2012
The Politico:
Mitt Romney's moment
Mitt Romney's moment
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Gallup, The Moderate Voice, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Marbury, Capital New York and Swampland
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
With Christie Out, Republican Race Begins for Real
With Christie Out, Republican Race Begins for Real
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The Caucus
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie won't run for president: Now what?
Chris Christie won't run for president: Now what?
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Big Journalism, American Thinker, Political Mojo, The Spectacle Blog, The New Republic and Iowa Caucuses
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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The Politico, Taegan Goddard's … and Booman Tribune
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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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ThinkProgress, Business Insider, Reuters, CNN and Weasel Zippers
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Senate Democrats forced to block Obama's jobs bill — Senate Republicans tried to make Democrats hold a quick vote on President Obama's jobs-stimulus bill Tuesday, but were blocked by Senate Majority Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is sponsoring Mr. Obama's bill but who said other matters take priority.
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The Strata-Sphere
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats buck Obama on jobs by changing ‘pay-fors’
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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Don Surber, normblog, The Talking Dog, Balloon Juice, Quote and Comment, Political Mojo, Wonkette, Democracy in America, ThinkProgress, Alas, a Blog and DealBook
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David Weigel / Slate:
House Progressives Embrace #occupywallstreet
House Progressives Embrace #occupywallstreet
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Hot Air, National Review, Washington Post, Pajamas Media, Viking Pundit and Campaign 2012
Alicia Ciccone / The Huffington Post:
Occupy Wall Street Causing Problems On Main Street
Occupy Wall Street Causing Problems On Main Street
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The Crawdad Hole, National Review and Pajamas Media
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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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
President Obama goes on the attack, to Democrats' delight
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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Rod Dreher and Marginal Revolution
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 …
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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Ricochet Conversation Feed and National Review
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 …
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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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The Politico and New York Magazine
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
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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Hotline On Call, JammieWearingFool, Politics and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Herman, Cain, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney to boycott Univision debate over Rubio report — Five Republican presidential candidates are boycotting a proposed Univision debate due to allegations that the Spanish-language media giant tried to strongarm Sen. Marco Rubio …
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NewsBusters.org blogs and Ballot Box