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Susan Saulny / New York Times:
As Cain Promotes His Management Skills, Ex-Aides Tell of Campaign in Chaos — If Herman Cain feels his management skills are up to any challenge, some of his former staff members think he should have started with the disorder in his own campaign. — Mr. Cain has hardly shown up in New Hampshire …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Herman Cain, Outlier — Herman Cain, the Georgia businessman who has never held elected office, is tied for the lead in national polls of Republican voters — or perhaps even slightly ahead of Mitt Romney, as he was in Tuesday night's New York Times/CBS News poll.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: GOP Primary Voters Get on the Cain Train — Herman Cain takes the lead in the Republican presidential nomination contest as GOP voters continue to deny Mitt Romney clear front-runner status. — A Fox News poll released Wednesday shows support for Cain has quadrupled among GOP primary voters since late August.
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
James Carville: Cain aide ‘drunk or stoned’ — 'If that guy wasn't drunk, I hadn't taken a drink in my life!' Carville says. AP Photo — James Carville says the Herman Cain adviser who raised eyebrows this week by puffing on a cigarette in a campaign video was either “drunk or stoned.”
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A.Killough / CNN:
Poll: Romney & Cain on top in Arizona
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New York Post:
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders — The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they're angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Crony Capitalism Comes Home — Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really are half-naked Communists aiming to bring down the American economic system when they're not doing drugs or having sex in public. — The answer is no. That alarmist view …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Says She Will Minimize Police Presence And That She Supports The Movement — After the first heavy-handed police crackdown on demonstrators in Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan wrote a statement on her Facebook page praising police for closing down the Occupy Oakland protest encampment.
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Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Scott Olsen injuries prompt review as Occupy Oakland protests continue
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Kerry Wills / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protester who was pepper-sprayed finds romance with fellow demonstrator
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Nation Now, Gothamist and JammieWearingFool
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2011 (advance estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011 …
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
GDP: good expectations for growth — View Photo Gallery — From Australia to Venezuela, the World Bank lists the countries with the strongest gross domestic product in 2010. All figures listed in U.S. dollars. — The third quarter was a rough one.
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Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Shows Modest Growth
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Reuters:
Euro deal leaves much to do on rescue fund, Greek debt — (Reuters) - Euro zone leaders struck a last-minute deal to limit the damage from the currency bloc's debt crisis early on Thursday but are still far from finalizing plans to slash Greece's debt burden and strengthen their rescue fund.
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New York Times:
Europe Agrees to Basics of Plan to Resolve Euro Crisis
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Valentina Pop / EUobserver.com:
Merkel wants ‘permanent’ supervision of Greece, warns of war
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats are increasingly calling it a ‘Republican Congress’ — President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. — Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase …
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Alex Leary / St. Petersburg Times:
Adviser: Connie Mack to enter U.S. Senate race
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Mark Halperin / Time:
The Big Questions: By Mark Halperin — Is President Obama on the ropes? — If the election were held today, the Obama-Biden ticket would not win the 270 electoral votes required to hold the White House. The coalition that helped elect the President—fired-up liberals, independents …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Paul Ryan Is Living in a Fantasy Land Older Than Ayn Rand — Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you today's worst paragraph in political rhetoric, courtesy of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Dickens), in an appearance at the Heritage Foundation, which must be like seeing The Beatles at The Cavern in Liverpool, back in the day.
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
7 reasons why Obama is wrong on income inequality — As if ordered up directly by the Obama White House and Occupy Wall Street, the Congressional Budget Office has produced a timely report looking at income inequality. The CBO found that between between 1979 and 2007 …
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Power Line, Hot Air, The Atlantic Online, Cafe Hayek, Guardian, Money & Company and The Huffington Post
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio on national ticket could be risky bet for Republican Party — Republicans who are eager to repair the party's battered image among Hispanic voters and unseat President Obama next year have long promoted a single-barrel solution to their two-pronged problem: putting Sen. Marco Rubio on the national ticket.
Massimo Calabresi / Swampland:
Hillary Clinton and the Limits of Power — Hillary Clinton argues in our cover story this week that America is not so much in decline as adjusting to a world of increasingly diffuse power, where like-minded networked individuals, non-governmental organizations and other non-traditional global actors …
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Politico, New York Magazine and Business Insider
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Gay troops to file suit challenging Defense of Marriage Act — Gay and lesbian service members and veterans plan to file suit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of the federal ban on gay marriage and federal policy that define a spouse as a person of the opposite sex.
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Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Jon Huntsman on the tea party, the polls, and his hair: the Yahoo News interview — WASHINGTON—A crowd of eager college students huddled outside an auditorium at The George Washington University on Tuesday, pleading with a skinny kid wearing a headset to let them inside. — “There's no more room,” the kid insisted.
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Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Team Lowey Squashes Chelsea Clinton Story (Updated x 4: Now With More Squashing) — NY-18 Rep. Nita Lowey's office says it's not true she's leaving the office she won in 1988 to pave the way for a Chelsea Clinton bid for Congress. — A New Rochelle blog, Talk of the Sound …
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The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Student-Loan Order Saves the Average Grad Less Than $10 a Month — The monthly impact of the president's new effort for most Americans paying off college debt will be between $4 and $8 — Of the many long-term problems the U.S. economy faces, student loans are a big one.
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Daily Mail:
The thermal images that prove 90% of tents in the Occupy camp in London are left EMPTY overnight — These are the damning images that prove the anti-capitalist protest that has closed St Paul's Cathedral is all but deserted at night. — Footage from a thermal imaging camera taken late …
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The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com, Say Anything and Verum Serum
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Healthcare reform penalizes married couples, says report — President Obama's healthcare law penalizes married couples by making it tougher for them to get insurance subsidies, Republicans charge in a new report obtained by The Hill. — The 22-page report from House Oversight Committee …
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