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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 …
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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.

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.
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Don Surber, Hot Air, PolitickerNY, CNN, MyFox New York, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Magazine and The Raw Story


It's a ‘mob’ just for differing with you? — Rep. Eric Cantor called the Occupy Wall Street protesters a ‘mob.’ — Here is a phony named Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, a dull young congressman clearly aspiring to be an even duller presidential candidate someday, calling the Occupy Wall Street people a “mob.”
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Washington Post, Fox News, WNYC News Blog and Lance Mannion

Democratic Party Going All-In on Occupy Wall Street — Robby Mook, the executive director of the DCCC just sent out a fund-raising email titled “@Stake: Occupy Wall Street.” It contains the following:

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!
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The Lonely Conservative and Bookworm Room

Poll finds majority of Americans aware of Occupy Wall Street protests
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Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers


The case for a third party candidate
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CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wonkette, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Riehl World View and Pat Dollard

Journalists Funded By ‘Vulture Capitalist’ Paul Singer Campaign To Smear Wall Street Protests
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NY Daily News, Hullabaloo and Business Insider

Romney defends Wall Street but vows to fight for middle class
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The Raw Story

Michael Bloomberg: Wall Street protesters can stay indefinitely
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Sky Dancing, Mediaite, The Other McCain and Runnin' Scared

Political party paying Occupy Wall Street protesters?
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New York Post, Runnin' Scared, Moe Lane and Christian Science Monitor

Roemer Is First Candidate to Embrace “Occupy Wall Street”
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MyFox New York

As poll numbers drop, Perry pushed to side of debate stage — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been pushed out of center stage by Herman Cain in tomorrow night's New Hampshire Republican presidential debate. — A source on one Republican campaign forwards on the seating chart for tomorrow night's debate …
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New York Magazine and The New Republic
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Santorum targets Romney, Perry and Cain with new ad
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GOP 12, American Spectator, CBS News and Washington Wire

NEW POLL FROM INSTITUTES OF POLITICS AT HARVARD, SAINT ANSELM FINDS ROMNEY LEADING NH PRIMARY FIELD BY 18 POINTS
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New York Times, Washington Post, GOP 12, The Hill, Hot Air, CNN and National Review

Tony Perkins: Ron Paul victory not ‘reflective’ of social issues voters
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CNN, The Raw Story, Pat Dollard, ABCNEWS and Indecision Forever


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 …
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neo-neocon, The Moderate Voice, The Strata-Sphere, Pajamas Media, The Hinterland Gazette, Sister Toldjah and Hot Air


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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Grasping Reality … and Political Mojo
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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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CNN, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller, Booman Tribune and The Raw Story


‘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” …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, MyFox New York, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Business Insider

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.
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard
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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.
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Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Political Mojo, National Review and Daily Kos

The portrait of a health care reformer — Governor Mitt Romney's official portrait in the Massachusetts State House — unveiled in 2009 — pictures him seated with various meaningful objects, including a folder on the desk behind him. — That folder, the AP wrote at the time, is …

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 »


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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