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Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters — Conservative activists have created a Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” that's meant to be a counterpunch to the viral “We are the 99 percent” site that's become a prominent symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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The Lonely Conservative, Balloon Juice, Grasping Reality … and Suburban Guerrilla
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Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes — The Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to get in the face of some of New York's richest tycoons on Tuesday. — A “Millionaires March” will visit the homes - or, more realistically …
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The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, Philly.com and JammieWearingFool
Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Can Stay Indefinitely … Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday that he'll allow the Wall Street protesters to stay indefinitely, provided they abide by the law, marking his strongest statement to date on the city's willingness to let demonstrators occupy a park in Lower Manhattan.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
AHEM: Wall Street “Protester” Says He's Getting Paid $22 An Hour (Plus Overtime) To “Protest” — Not sure if the video below is real or not—perhaps it was created to make the Wall Street protesters look bad—but this Chicago “protester” says that he's getting paid $22 an hour plus overtime to complain about corporate greed.
Discussion:
Fire Andrea Mitchell! and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
John Cook / Gawker:
Is James O'Keefe a Fugitive? — As we mentioned earlier, right-wing hitman James O'Keefe was spotted lurking at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan's Liberty Plaza today. That might not be good news for O'Keefe, since he's on probation and requires the permission of a federal magistrate judge …
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Gothamist, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and Dependable Renegade, more at Mediagazer »
Matthew Vadum / Big Government:
BREAKING: Operation #OccupyWallStreeters-SEIU's Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives — Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. — Stephen Lerner
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The Right Scoop, The Lonely Conservative and Sister Toldjah
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems aggressively counter Republican attacks on anti-Wall Street protests — Democratic leaders are pushing back aggressively against Republican attacks on the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and Washington. — They say the conservative criticism of the rallies is evidence …
NY Daily News:
Lupica: Pol shows he's phony with protest jab
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Washington Post, Don Surber, WNYC News Blog and Lance Mannion
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Help wanted — Reader Greg Farrell writes to point out what he found on Craigslist.
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neo-neocon, Runnin' Scared, Hot Air, Moe Lane and Bookworm Room
Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Democrats Seek to Own ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
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Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, CBS News and Power Line
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Michael Bloomberg: Wall Street protesters can stay indefinitely
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Metropolis, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, The Other McCain, PolitickerNY, ThinkProgress, Sky Dancing and Runnin' Scared
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences — Romney and Cain closely matched near 20%, with Perry at 15% — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' support for Herman Cain has surged to 18%, their support for Rick Perry has sagged to 15%, and their support for Mitt Romney remains relatively stable at 20%.
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Gallup: Obama Hits All-Time Low Among Blacks as Cain Surges Among Republicans — (CNSNews.com) - Gallup released new polling data today that showed African American presidential candidate Herman Cain's support was surging among Republicans even as President Barack Obama's job approval hit an all-time low among blacks.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Journalistdee / CNN:
Poverty ambassadors blast Herman Cain's views on racism — Washington (CNN) - GOP hopeful Herman Cain drew concern from some black opinion elites Monday after expressing his views on racism and how it affects the upward mobility of African Americans. — “People sometimes hold themselves …
Discussion:
The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Harry Belafonte To Joy Behar: Herman Cain Is A ‘Totally False’ ‘Bad Apple’ In The Black Community — Weird things come in threes, and today the final chapter of “Legendary Crooners Make Surprisingly Bold Political Statements” arrived today with an exclusive Joy Behar interview with Harry Belafonte …
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The Raw Story, We are respectable negroes and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
As poll numbers drop, Perry pushed to side of debate stage
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New York Magazine, The New Republic, CNN, The Hill and Trail Blazers Blog
Herman Cain / KWTX-TV:
God Told Me To Run
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Little Green Footballs and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Harvard University Institute of Politics:
NEW POLL FROM INSTITUTES OF POLITICS AT HARVARD, SAINT ANSELM FINDS ROMNEY LEADING NH PRIMARY FIELD BY 18 POINTS
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Washington Post, Hot Air, FiveThirtyEight, The Raw Story, The Other McCain, Taegan Goddard's …, National Review, Lynn Sweet, GOP 12, CNN, American Power and The Hill
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
New poll shows Obama losing to ... Herman Cain
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National Review, Poll Position and The Crawdad Hole
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Santorum targets Romney, Perry and Cain with new ad
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PolitickerNY, CBS News, American Spectator and Hot Air
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Warren raises $3.15M; Brown raises $1.55M — Elizabeth Warren raised more than $3 million in a little more than six weeks to fund her Senate bid in Massachusetts — more than twice the figure pulled in by incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.). — The astounding figure anchors the notion …
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Blue Mass Group, Booman Tribune, CNN, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
Sign Of The Times — Macro in the park. — It's not centrist when Democrats do it. — Go Princeton! (And NYU) — All hail the new laureates. — Financial Romanticism — Laissez-faire won't work. — October 09 — Was Failure Inevitable? — Maybe, but trying couldn't and can't hurt.
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Weasel Zippers
Jason Ukman / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki — (Associated Press via SITE Intelligence Group) Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has confirmed the deaths of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, the young American propagandist killed alongside …
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Political Mojo, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Patterico's Pontifications, Salon.com, Hit & Run and Instapundit
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama the loner — The Post's Scott Wilson penned a provocative piece over the weekend that cast President Obama's current political problems through the lens of his loner tendencies. — Is President Obama a loner? REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Wrote Wilson:
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US Politics, Pajamas Media and The Caucus
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Capitalist Tool — Meet Jesse LaGreca, Disney's Audio-Animatronic revolutionary. — “I'm the only working-class person you're going to see on Sunday news, political news,” declared Jesse LaGreca on “This Week With Christiane Amanpour” yesterday. “Maybe ever.”
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The Huffington Post, Pajamas Media, NewsBusters.org blogs, Chicago Boyz and Sense of Events
Natalie Harrison / Apple:
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours — Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet …
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AllThingsD, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Bits, VentureBeat, Fortune, Engadget, MyFox New York and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Felix Salmon:
Chart of the day, median income edition — Why has no one thought to do this before? Every month, the Current Population Survey goes out to a nationally representative sample of more than 50,000 interviewed households and their members. And in one of the questions, those households …
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Economix, The New Republic, Grasping Reality …, Firedoglake, The Lonely Conservative, Political Mojo, Pat Dollard and Truthdig
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Karl Rove vs. the Koch brothers — Karl Rove's team and the Koch brothers' operatives quietly coordinated millions of dollars in political spending in 2010, but that alliance, which has flown largely under the radar, is showing signs of fraying. — And with each network planning to dwarf its 2010 effort …
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DownWithTyranny! and Ben Smith's Blog
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
'Mr. Cain, Who Is Lawrence O'Donnell to Tell You How to Be a Black Man?' — After Thursday evening's “interview” on MSNBC, Professor William Jacobson and others were outraged by Lawrence O'Donnell's self-righteous and disrespectful hectoring of Herman Cain.
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nation.foxnews.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Lonely Conservative and Mediaite
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Effort to recall Wis. Gov. Walker to start Nov. 15 — MADISON, Wis.—An effort to recall Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over his contentious union rights law will begin Nov. 15, Democrats announced Monday, meaning an election could be held as early as next spring.
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Chippewa Falls Herald and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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