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9:20 AM ET, October 5, 2011

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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 …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Christie Exit Shifts Focus to Romney  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's decision to sit out the presidential race removes one of the last big unknowns from the 2012 Republican nomination fight and opens the path for Mitt Romney, the GOP front-runner for most of the year.
Discussion: driftglass and Hot Air
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
With Christie Out, Republican Race Begins for Real
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Chris Christie won't run for president: Now what?
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Mitt Romney forecasts first lady role for his wife
Discussion: CNN
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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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.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
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.
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
Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Left's Pathetic Tea Party
Discussion: Salon.com and Firedoglake
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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Fox News:
House Republicans Request Special Counsel to Probe Holder on ‘Fast and Furious’
JammieWearingFool:
CBS Reporter Says WH Screamed at Her Over Fast and Furious
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.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:   President Obama goes on the attack, to Democrats' delight
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: CBS News
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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 …
Discussion: Rod Dreher and Marginal Revolution
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.
Discussion: 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?
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.
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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Andy Birkey / Minnesota Independent:
Anti-gay marriage groups say they won't follow new campaign finance guidelines
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Banking's Self Inflicted Wounds
Discussion: Dealbreaker
Moody's:
Rating Action: Moody's downgrades Italy's government bond ratings to A2 with a negative outlook
John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Time for a Tobin tax  —  There's been a lot of discussion …
Discussion: Vagabond Scholar and ThinkProgress
Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
Samuel L. Jackson echoes Morgan Freeman, says Tea Party racism is obvious
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
‘German Taliban Mujahideen’ leader thought killed in US airstrike
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Immelt: ‘Our job is to make our ideas his ideas’
Discussion: Political Mojo and ThinkProgress
Geneva Sands-Sadowitz / The Hill:
Gingrich surprises Al Sharpton with birthday wish
Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
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