memeorandum: The case for a third party candidate (Douglas E. Schoen/The Politico)

3:00 PM ET, October 10, 2011

Top Items:

Panic of the Plutocrats — It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America's direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Washington Post, Michelle Malkin, Gawker, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs, Prairie Weather, The Mahablog, Eduwonk, Althouse, Shakesville, TBogg, ECHIDNE of the snakes, Political Mojo, Big Government and CNN

New York Post:

Sex, drugs and hiding from the law at Wall Street protests — The criminals are crashing the party. — Lured by cheap drugs and free food, creepy thugs have infiltrated the crowd of protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park for Occupy Wall Street, The Post has learned. — “I got warrants.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, National Review, JammieWearingFool, Gawker, Moe Lane, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and MyFox New York

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.

Discussion: The Politico, MyFox New York, Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine

Scott Johnson / Power Line:

Help wanted — Reader Greg Farrell writes to point out what he found on Craigslist. It's an ad from the Working Families Party looking to hire protesters for Wall Street and offering $350-650 a week, depending on responsibility and length of time on staff: FIGHT TO HOLD WALL STREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW!

Discussion: Hot Air, Runnin' Scared, Moe Lane, Wake up America, The Lonely Conservative and Bookworm Room

Douglas E. Schoen / The Politico:

The case for a third party candidate — The signs of dissatisfaction, disaffection and just plain discontent are everywhere in America today. — The thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters, who have congregated for more than three weeks in downtown New York's Liberty Square …

Discussion: CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wonkette, Riehl World View, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Firedoglake, Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Poll finds majority of Americans aware of Occupy Wall Street protests — More than half of all Americans have heard of the Occupy Wall Street movement and more have a positive than negative view of the protests, according to a new ORC International Caravan/CNN poll released Monday.

Discussion: Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers

Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Journalists Funded By ‘Vulture Capitalist’ Paul Singer Campaign To Smear Wall Street Protests

Discussion: NY Daily News, Business Insider and Room Eight, more at Mediagazer »

James Oliphant / Los Angeles Times:
Herman Cain steps up attacks on Occupy Wall Street protests

Discussion: CBS News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Political Carnival, Big Government, Washington Post, CBS Boston, Hot Air, Vox Popoli, The Moderate Voice, New York Times and CNN

CBS News:
Occupy Wall St.'s drumbeat grows louder

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Crooks and Liars, USA Today, TechCrunch and Christian Science Monitor, more at Techmeme »

CBS News:
“Occupy Wall Street” now in 25 cities

Discussion: Mediaite, PoliPundit.com, ABCNEWS and msnbc.com

Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Roemer Is First Candidate to Embrace “Occupy Wall Street”

Discussion: MyFox New York

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

Perry Campaign Works to Smooth Out Flaws — SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas struggled through his first three debates, so his aides have staged practice sessions, complete with a stand-in for Mitt Romney. He has stirred outrage among conservatives on immigration …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Washington Post, ABCNEWS, Iowa Caucuses, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air, The Politico, GOP 12, Business Insider and Towleroad News #gay

Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Perry targets Romney's wealth

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, Firedoglake, Daily Kos and Pirate's Cove

Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
How TV Debates Have Changed the Race

Discussion: Betsy's Page, Swampland and NewsBusters.org blogs

Harvard University Institute of Politics:

NEW POLL FROM INSTITUTES OF POLITICS AT HARVARD, SAINT ANSELM FINDS ROMNEY LEADING NH PRIMARY FIELD BY 18 POINTS — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Contact: Esten Perez — 617.496.4009 — Barbara LeBlanc 603.486.8760 — One-in-five likely New Hampshire Republican presidential …

Discussion: GOP 12, CNN and National Review

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Tony Perkins: Ron Paul victory not ‘reflective’ of social issues voters

Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS, Pat Dollard, Indecision Forever, The Raw Story and CBS News

Justin Sink / The Hill:
DNC website mocks Romney flip-flops

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CNN, The Caucus, GOP 12, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and techPresident

Reid Pillifant / Capital New York:

‘Joe the Plumber’ files for a congressional run — Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber,” has formed a congressional campaign committee and filed a statement of candicacy, according to the Federal Election Commission's website. — The filing for “Joe for Congress 2012” …

Discussion: MyFox New York, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Business Insider

Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Joe The Plumber Running For Congress

Discussion: USA Today

Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Joe the Plumber files for House run in Ohio

Discussion: Mediaite and Gawker

New York Post:

Aimless Obama walks alone — The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum. — The gist is this …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Pajamas Media, Sister Toldjah, Hot Air and The Hinterland Gazette

Robert Pear / New York Times:

Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling — WASHINGTON — In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new research has found.

Discussion: Felix Salmon, Grasping Reality …, Questions and Observations, Business Insider, Pat Dollard, Washington Monthly, Truthdig, Calculated Risk and US Politics

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster — Updated Abandoning a break-up plan it announced last month, Netflix said Monday morning that it had decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one name and one Web site. — The company admitted that it had moved …

Discussion: The Official Netflix Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Magazine, The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, VentureBeat, Associated Press, Eschaton and Gawker, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Qwikster Is Gonester: Netflix Kills Its DVD-Only Business Before Launch

Discussion: TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, MyFox New York, WNYC News Blog, MarketBeat and Chicagoist

E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:

From Elizabeth Warren, the proper case for liberalism — It's not often that a sound bite from a Democratic candidate gets so under the skin of my distinguished colleague George F. Will that he feels moved to quote it in full and then devote an entire column to refuting it. This is instructive.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Political Mojo, National Review and Daily Kos

Ed Carson / Investor's Business Daily:

51% Don't Want Second Term For President Obama — A majority of Americans now oppose giving President Obama a second term, reflecting the country's continued weak economic performance, according to the latest IBD/TIPP survey released Monday. — By 51%-41%, respondents in October picked …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Wake up America, The Hinterland Gazette and Weasel Zippers

Eason Jordan / Poll Position:

Cain surging, edging Obama — In a hypothetical head-to-head presidential race, Republican Herman Cain edges Democrat Barack Obama, according to our latest national scientific opinion poll. — The poll found Cain topping Obama by a narrow 43%-41% margin, with 15% saying they had no opinion.

Discussion: Pat Dollard, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

Jim Geraghty / National Review: New Poll Puts Cain Ahead of Obama

Jordy Yager / The Hill:

Issa: Holder's defense on Fast and Furious ‘has reached a new low’ — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) issued a scathing reply to Attorney General Eric Holder over his role in the authorization of a botched gun-tracking operation and the Justice Department's cooperation with a congressional investigation.

Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers

Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:

Herman Cain: I Don't Know The ‘President Of Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan’ — In an interview with the religious right Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain badly bungled Uzbekistan's name and said his standard answer to “'gotcha' questions” would be that he doesn't have answers.