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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Mitt Romney builds case for inevitability — HANOVER, N.H - Hours after Chris Christie signaled he believes Mitt Romney is the Republican party's inevitable nominee, Romney and the rest of the GOP field went about proving him right. — Romney again outclassed the opposition in Tuesday's Bloomberg/Washington Post debate.
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Michelle Malkin:
Quick and dirty debate after-report: Perry is running out of gas; Excuses, excuses — To be fair, if you and I had to be up on stage with Charlie Rose and Karen Tumulty, we'd be soporifically stupefied after a few minutes, too. — But then again, we're not running for the highest office …
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Campaign 2012, Weekly Standard, Riehl World View, CBS News, National Review and Outside the Beltway
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Impressions of Tonight's Debate — The GOP presidential debate is coming to a close. Here are some random thoughts: — * I doubt that many people saw it. My wife wasn't able to find it on television, and finally tracked it down on the internet, when it was half done. So the impact is likely to be slight.
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Erick's blog, The Politico, Daily Kos and Althouse
Roger Simon / The Politico:
GOP debate is wicked — The Republican race has turned into “The Wizard of Oz.” Rick Perry wants a brain. Mitt Romney wants a heart. And any number of candidates are Dorothy, realizing there is no place like home and they should have stayed there. — Herman Cain is seeking courage.
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Washington Examiner:
After another bad debate, is Rick Perry finished?
After another bad debate, is Rick Perry finished?
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Hot Air, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, msnbc.com, Big Government, RedState and Online NewsHour
Washington Post:
Mitt Romney solidifies his front-runner status in Republican debate
Mitt Romney solidifies his front-runner status in Republican debate
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Washington Monthly, The Politico, Wall Street Journal, Outside the Beltway, ABCNEWS, PolitickerNY, GOP 12, FiveThirtyEight and The Page
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Republican Candidates Divide on How to Aid Economy
Republican Candidates Divide on How to Aid Economy
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Washington Post, NationalJournal.com, Cato @ Liberty, New York Magazine, Colorlines, The Politico, Daily Kos and Sky Dancing
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Cain takes center stage in Republican economic debate
Cain takes center stage in Republican economic debate
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Washington Post and The Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama's jobs plan blocked in Senate — President Obama received a slap from members of his own party Tuesday as the Senate voted 50-49 to block his $447 billion jobs package. — The jobs plan, which the president has spent much of the last month touting on a cross-country tour, fell well short of the 60 votes it needed to proceed.
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Michelle Malkin, Outside the Beltway, UrbanGrounds and Weasel Zippers
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
President's Jobs Measure Is Turned Back in Key Senate Test
President's Jobs Measure Is Turned Back in Key Senate Test
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Associated Press:
GOP senators vote to defeat Obama's jobs bill
GOP senators vote to defeat Obama's jobs bill
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Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, Balloon Juice and US Politics
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Jim Messina broaches a provocative line
Jim Messina broaches a provocative line
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Daily Kos, Political Mojo, No More Mister Nice Blog, The New Republic and Booman Tribune
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Plot to kill ambassador unraveled on SW border — The unraveling of an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States came from a surprising place — the front lines of the drug war along the Mexican border. — And like a Hollywood thriller, the murder-for-hire tale cuts …
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Joby Warrickand Thomas Erdbrink / Washington Post:
Alleged plot is uncharacteristically bold
Alleged plot is uncharacteristically bold
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The Huffington Post, Power Line, Fox News, Associated Press and Indecision Forever
ABCNEWS:
U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot in Washington, D.C. Disrupted
U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot in Washington, D.C. Disrupted
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Juana Summers / The Politico:
Who is Rich Lowrie? — Herman Cain says his much-touted “9-9-9” plan is the product of extensive testing and thinking, but the only man he cited as involved with its research — Rich Lowrie, of Cleveland, Ohio — is not a trained economist. — Instead, Lowrie — who's the only economic adviser Cain …
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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Cain defends 9-9-9 plan as not ‘off a pizza box’
Cain defends 9-9-9 plan as not ‘off a pizza box’
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CNN, Outside the Beltway, The Politico and Connecting.the.Dots
Zombie / Pajamas Media:
Occupy L.A. Speaker: Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals — Citizen journalist Ringo captured this speaker at the Occupy Los Angeles camp a few days ago letting the cat out of the bag: After dismissing nonviolence as a dead end, he admits that for the Occupiers to achieve their goals …
Bob Oakes / WBUR:
Mayor Thomas Menino Responds To Occupy Boston Arrests — BOSTON — Mayor Thomas Menino is defending the decision to arrest about 100 protesters on the Rose Kennedy Greenway early Tuesday, saying “they were getting out of control.” — The arrests came after the demonstrators tried to expand …
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Boston Globe:
Police arrest scores of Occupy Boston protesters
Police arrest scores of Occupy Boston protesters
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David Seifman / New York Post:
Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street unfairly blaming hard working people
Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street unfairly blaming hard working people
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Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine
Charles Krupa / ABCNEWS:
Perry Botches U.S. Revolution Century — Texas Governor Rick Perry energetically bounded into the Beta Theta Pi fraternity on Dartmouth College's campus after Tuesday night's debate, but when he was asked a question about states' rights, he slipped up on the dates for when the American Revolution was fought.
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Brendan Nyhan, ThinkProgress, Campaign 2012 and Gawker
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Obama: 'I'm a fourth-quarter player' — (CNN) - President Barack Obama compared his re-election bid to a game of basketball, to make the point to Democratic supporters that he's a strong closer. — The president made his comments Tuesday night at the second of two campaign fundraisers in Florida.
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George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:
Obama raises campaign cash in Orlando as jobs bill stalls in Senate
Obama raises campaign cash in Orlando as jobs bill stalls in Senate
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Weasel Zippers
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Michelle Obama often unrecognized — Michelle Obama says when she takes a trip to Target or Petco, she is often surprised that people don't even recognize her. — “It's amazing how people don't recognize you,” the first lady said in an interview that aired on NBC Wednesday morning.
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John Stevens / Daily Mail:
Heartbreak for Huma as new messages reveal how Anthony Weiner called her parents ‘backwards thinking’ and compared her to his ‘sextees’ in vulgar messages — Accused his successor Bob Turner of being ‘just another rich businessman trying to buy himself an election’
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Runnin' Scared, Room Eight, Gawker, iOwnTheWorld.com, Gothamist and PolitickerNY
Cristina Corbin / Fox News:
Family of Al Qaeda's Samir Khan Gets ‘Condolence Call’ From U.S. State Department — The U.S. State Department made a phone call to the family of Al Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan to offer the government's condolences on his death during a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, a department spokesman confirms.
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Stephen Green / Pajamas Media:
Drunkblogging the GOP Presidential Debate — Did Romney close the deal? Did Herman Cain break through? Also see David Steinberg liveblogging at the Tatler, sans booze. — 4:44PM Tonight, the talk is supposed to be all about the economy. That's just fine, since the debate is being hosted …
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Datechguy / Datechguy's Blog:
Dartmouth Debate blog
Dartmouth Debate blog
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Washington Wire, The Other McCain and The Lonely Conservative
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Clarence Thomas' Influence On The Supreme Court … Twenty years ago, Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court by the narrowest margin in 100 years. He's the most conservative justice since the 1930s, and, in his passion for his own version of “original intent,” …
Peter J. Wallison / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street's Gullible Occupiers — The protesters have been sold a bill of goods. Reckless government policies, not private greed, brought about the housing bubble and resulting financial crisis. — There is no mystery where the Occupy Wall Street movement came from …
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National Review
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Barney Frank Slams Newt Gingrich For Calling For His Imprisonment — Is it a violation of Congressional decorum to call for your former colleagues to be thrown in jail? Newt Gingrich lobbed a bomb early in Tuesday's Bloomberg/Washington Post debate by telling the audience …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.? — It wasn't that long ago that Republican moneymen and operatives in Washington were moping around K Street like Eeyore in the Hundred Acre Wood, lamenting their party's extremist image and casting about for a candidate with a chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A conspiracy only Bachmann could create — As tempting as it is to simply ignore Michele Bachmann's nonsense, there was one gem from last night's debate that I really enjoyed. … What's amusing about this is how truly ridiculous Bachmann's silly conspiracy theory — and imaginary exchange with the president — really is.
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