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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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Washington Examiner:
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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msnbc.com, Hot Air, Indecision Forever, Big Government, Pajamas Media, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, RedState and Online NewsHour
US News:
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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Sky Dancing, Wake up America, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, americanthinker.com and Big Government
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.
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Is Romney a sure thing? — By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower — Is Romney a sure thing? All signs point in that direction, but the numbers tell a different story... Recapping last night's debate: Another missed opportunity for Perry …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Post, Lynn Sweet and A plain blog about politics
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Shame Of The Crowded Field — The ridiculous thing about these Republican debates is that you keep needing to wade through this vast field of candidates who are essentially doing book tours in order to hear the actual presidential candidates debate. Rick Santorum is not going to be a major party presidential nominee.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cain leads nationally
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Rush Limbaugh, Guardian, National Review and FrumForum
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Reid latest to raise the sabotage question
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Prairie Weather, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
First Read / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Despite defeat, Obama's jobs bill is popular
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Daily Kos, The Political Carnival and ThinkProgress
Rolling Stone:
My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters — Hit bankers where it hurts — I've been down to “Occupy Wall Street” twice now, and I love it. The protests building at Liberty Square and spreading over Lower Manhattan are a great thing, the logical answer to the Tea Party and a long-overdue middle finger to the financial elite.
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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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Speakeasy, Campaign 2012, Opinionator, ThinkProgress, New York Magazine, Online NewsHour and Mediaite
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Sees ‘No Exit’ From Woes
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New York Magazine, The Awl, Deal Journal and Fox News
Michelle Malkin:
Fast and Furious update: Cranking up the pressure, plus DOJ gets the Misfit Politics treatment; UPDATE: New subpoena issued today — Scroll down for updates...subpoena issued today... Nope. Eric Holder's dodging and diversionary tactics yesterday didn't work.
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Boing Boing, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider and Fox News
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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
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
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 …
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Wake up America, Big Government, Hot Air, Verum Serum, UrbanGrounds, The Other McCain, RedState, Questions and Observations, nation.foxnews.com, The Gateway Pundit, Patterico's Pontifications, Datechguy's Blog, GayPatriot, The Crawdad Hole, Michelle Malkin, Sister Toldjah and New York Times
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive — Andrew Langhoff resigns as European publishing chief after exposure of secret channels of cash to help boost sales figures — One of Rupert Murdoch's most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Poynter and Angry Bear, more at Mediagazer »
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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New York Times and Connecting.the.Dots
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’
Joe Kemp / NY Daily News:
New York squeegee king Greg (Grover) Washington busted for a staggering 186th time — The squeegee king of New York was dethroned, at least temporarily, after a heated face-off with drivers Tuesday in Murray Hill, police said. — Greg (Grover) Washington - busted for a staggering 186th time …
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Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
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 …
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
Investor's Business Daily:
Apologies Not Accepted — Leadership: Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next president apologize for the current one? — The obsessive need of this president …
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Pat Dollard, NO QUARTER, Conservatives4Palin and National Review
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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