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Poll: Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney All Beat Obama — Here's how much political trouble President Obama is in: A new poll by the authoritative Evolving Strategies firm finds that Herman Cain, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney would all beat Obama it the election were held today.
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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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After another bad debate, is Rick Perry finished? — HANOVER, NH — It would be an understatement to say that Texas Gov. Rick Perry's top aides are unhappy with press reports casting Tuesday night's Republican debate as a make-or-break moment for the Texas governor.
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Pajamas Media, msnbc.com, Hot Air, Big Government, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, RedState and Online NewsHour
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
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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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 …
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Is Romney a sure thing?
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Impressions of Tonight's Debate
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
A Modest Proposal: Call Obstruction What It Is — Here is the headline in the online home page of the NYT, about Obama's “pass this jobs bill, pass it now” proposal. Note the word “fails”: — The subhead and the rest of the article make clear that more Senators voted for the bill than against it — 50 to 49.
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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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Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Herman Cain consultant: 9-9-9 wouldn't be accepted
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Outside the Beltway
Tim Mak / The Politico:
Issa subpoenas Holder on Fast & Furious — House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) announced Wednesday that he has issued a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder for Justice Department documents related to the failed “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation.
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Annie Lowrey / Slate:
99 Percenters, Meet the 53 Percenters — In response to Occupy Wall Street, some conservatives are blasting the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal taxes. Do they have a point? — The slogan doesn't exactly sing: “We are the 53 percent!” But this new campaign …
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Campaign 2012, Opinionator, ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
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David Seifman / New York Post:
Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street unfairly blaming hard working people
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Runnin' Scared, Riehl World View and New York Magazine
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 …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Cafe Milano: Where They Know You're ‘Very’ Important — Responding to speculation that allegedly Iran-linked terrorists were planning to blow up Cafe Milano in Georgetown, Tim Noah wonders what the deal is with Cafe Milano, a very expensive but fundamentally “meh” Italian restaurant:
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The Reliable Source / Washington Post:
Iranian plot may have involved ambassador's favorite restaurant. Cafe Milano?
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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’
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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Maggie's Farm, Questions and Observations and National Review
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.
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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Weasel Zippers
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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Time and The Reaction
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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 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
‘Underwear bomber’ pleads guilty on all charges — The Nigerian student who attempted to blow up a plane over Detroit with a bomb sewn into his underwear pleaded guilty at a trial Wednesday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who said after the botched Christmas Day attack that he was affiliated …
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Weasel Zippers
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Facing Cuts, a City Repeals Its Domestic Violence Law — TOPEKA, Kan. — The startling vote came up at a City Council meeting here on Tuesday, provoked by a run-of-the-mill budget dispute over services that had spun out of control: decriminalize domestic violence.
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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.
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