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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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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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David Weigel / Slate:
Newt's Not Here, Man — Cain and Gingrich are making the wrong campaign moves, and winning. Why? — Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich at the CNN Republican presidential debate — Photographs by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. — On Nov. 5, with just five non-holiday Saturdays left till the Iowa caucuses …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Poll: Romney at or tied for top spot in first 4 states to vote
Poll: Romney at or tied for top spot in first 4 states to vote
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Herman Cain, Outlier
Herman Cain, Outlier
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A.Killough / CNN:
Poll: Romney & Cain on top in Arizona
Poll: Romney & Cain on top in Arizona
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Alex Leary / St. Petersburg Times:
Adviser: Connie Mack to enter U.S. Senate race — U.S. Rep. Connie Mack unexpectedly signaled late Wednesday that he will enter the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, apparently convinced other candidates cannot defeat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. — “He's getting in the race,” adviser David James said in an e-mail.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems increasingly call it a ‘Republican Congress’
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Supercommittee Dems push for stimulus to be part of deficit deal
Supercommittee Dems push for stimulus to be part of deficit deal
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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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Kerry Wills / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protester who was pepper-sprayed finds romance with fellow demonstrator — Occupy Wall Street protester Kaylee Dedrick is still furious over getting pepper-sprayed by a cop - but the blinding sting wasn't all bad. — It sparked a romance with a fellow protester who came to her aid.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Iraq vet in critical condition after Oakland protest — (10-26) 17:29 PDT OAKLAND — Protesters inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement plan to rally again in downtown Oakland at 6 p.m. tonight, with some saying they will try to retake the encampment outside City Hall that police dismantled early Tuesday.
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Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Occupy Oakland: Iraq war veteran in critical condition after police clashes
Occupy Oakland: Iraq war veteran in critical condition after police clashes
Jay Finneburgh / Indybay newswire:
Protester injured by Police projectile at Occupy Oakland march at city hall 10.25.11
Protester injured by Police projectile at Occupy Oakland march at city hall 10.25.11
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New York Times:
Europe Agrees to Basics of Plan to Resolve Euro Crisis — BRUSSELS — European leaders, in a significant step toward resolving the euro zone financial crisis, early Thursday morning obtained an agreement from banks to take a 50 percent loss on the face value of their Greek debt.
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Financial Times:
EU reaches agreement on Greek bonds
EU reaches agreement on Greek bonds
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Valentina Pop / EUobserver.com:
Merkel wants ‘permanent’ supervision of Greece, warns of war
Merkel wants ‘permanent’ supervision of Greece, warns of war
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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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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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Rubin dismisses Erickson's ‘anti-Semitic screed’ — RedState's and CNN's Erick Erickson wrote today, in response to my profile today of the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, that her politics might be better described as “Likud” than conservative, drawing a sharp response from Rubin to me this evening.
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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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Robert Cox / Talk of the Sound:
Chelsea Clinton Mulls Congressional Run from New York State; 18th District in Westchester County Considered Likely Choice — Talk of the Sound has learned that Chelsea Clinton may run for Congress next year. — Clinton has been approached by “the right people” in the New York Democratic Party, according to one source in Albany.
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Swampland:
Topline Results of Oct. 20-25, 2011, CNN/TIME/ORC Poll — FLORIDA — BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH 401 REGISTERED REPUBLICANS — SAMPLING ERROR: +/- 5 PERCENTAGE PTS. — If the Republican presidential primary were held today, please tell me which of the following people you would be most likely to support.
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Alex Altman / Swampland:
CNN/TIME Poll: Romney Leads Republican Rivals in First Four Primary States
CNN/TIME Poll: Romney Leads Republican Rivals in First Four Primary States
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Iowa Caucuses and Burkablog
Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Inappropriate Note Author Identified and Removed From Screening — Earlier this week, a passenger found a highly inappropriate note scrawled on a “Notice of Inspection” that TSA places in checked bags if they are required to be searched. She tweeted a photo of what she found and we soon learned of the incident.
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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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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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The Politico, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Economic Growth Accelerates — U.S. economic growth accelerated this summer as consumers and businesses boosted spending, allaying at least for now concerns of a slide back toward recession. — Separately, new claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week yet remained elevated …
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Paul Glastris / Washington Monthly:
What Happens in the Campaign Stays in the Campaign — Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious — The 2012 presidential race is entering what might be called the “full public colonoscopy” phase, when the press really begins digging into every nook and cranny of the leading candidates' public …
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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, Cafe Hayek, Money & Company, Guardian, The Huffington Post and PERRspectives
Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
Rep. Joe Walsh to Eric Holder: You better resign immediately, buddy — It was faint at first, but it grows ever louder, this cry for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) today became the fourth Congressman to explicitly call for Holder to take responsibility …
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