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12:45 PM ET, November 2, 2011

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New York Times:
Cain Accuser Got a Year's Salary in Severance Pay  —  WASHINGTON — The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 — a year's salary — in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Attorney says Cain violated deal, allowing accuser to speak  —  The lawyer for one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment said his client may get a chance to speak publicly about the allegations because the GOP presidential candidate violated the confidentiality agreement between the two.
Discussion: Firedoglake and The PJ Tatler
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Cain Not Able  —  We have the starchy guy — tall, handsome, intelligent and rich, with a baronial estate — who's hard to warm up to.  And we have the spontaneous guy, who's charming and easy to warm up to — until it turns out that he has an unsavory pattern with young women and a suspect relationship with facts.
Suzanne Garment / The Politico:
Cain reaction: Not by the book
Discussion: CNN
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Herman Cain's accuser wants to tell her side of story, lawyer says
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Cain: ‘Factions’ are out to get me
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Politico
Kurt Schlichter / New York Post:
Facts are optional  —  When you consider that, more than a decade ago …
Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:
NYC arrest records: Many Occupy Wall Street protesters live in luxury  —  Many “Occupy Wall Street” protesters arrested in New York City “occupy” more luxurious homes than their “99 percent” rhetoric might suggest, a Daily Caller investigation has found.  —  For each of the 984 Occupy Wall …
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Reuters:   Occupy Wall Street finds money brings problems too
David Jolly / New York Times:
Charlie Hebdo, French Magazine, Firebombed  —  PARIS — The office of a French satirical magazine here was badly damaged by a firebomb early on Wednesday, the publisher said, after it published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the victory of an Islamist party in Tunisian elections.
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BBC:
Attack on French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo  —  The attack on Charlie Hebdo comes a day after it named the prophet Muhammad as its “editor-in-chief”  —  The offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, French police say.
Rasmussen Reports:
South Carolina: Cain 33% Romney 23% Gingrich 15%  —  In South Carolina, businessman Herman Cain leads the GOP field with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney ten points behind.  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the only other candidate in double digits.
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Steven Shepard / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Gets a Bump in New Quinnipiac Poll  —  A new Quinnipiac University poll released early Wednesday shows a significant bump over the past month for President Obama and his party, while businessman Herman Cain leads former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the Republican primary …
A.Killough / CNN:
Poll: Cain pulls ahead of Romney
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
“Peace Through Strength, And Clarity:” Cain Says He Believes China May Have Nukes One Day In the Future  —  Update: Wait, Did He Just Misspeak?  Did He Mean Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carriers?  —  I'm sure this is charming, or something. … That's actually cut a bit.  The full quote from the PBS transcript:
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
New Hampshire to vote Jan. 10  —  Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) - At long last, New Hampshire's secretary of state has set the first-in-the-nation primary for Jan. 10, restoring order to the primary calendar and preserving the state's early voting status for another presidential cycle.
Discussion: The Politico
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John DiStaso / unionleader.com:
John DiStaso's Granite Status: It's official: Gardner sets first-in-nation primary for Jan. 10
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
New York Times:
Mr. Corzine's Big Bet  —  Why did Jon S. Corzine make the risky bets that have now plunged MF Global Holdings into bankruptcy court?  We don't know, but the likely explanations are disturbing.  —  Over the past year, most investors have been fleeing the sovereign debt of Spain, Italy and other euro-zone basket cases.
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Boston Herald:
Rick Perry's giddy speech raises eyebrows, questions  —  FORT WORTH, Texas — A spirited and giggling Texas Gov. Rick Perry showed up to deliver a speech in Manchester, N.H., on Friday and the resulting video became a YouTube hit Monday.  —  His campaign insists Perry was simply “being passionate …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Case Against David Brooks, Man of the Privileged Few  —  I don't think it's too strident to demand at this point that David Brooks be hauled up before a jury consisting of everyone else in America and forced to defend himself against several million counts of being an insufferable twat in a public place.
Robert Booth / Guardian:
Julian Assange loses extradition appeal  —  High court judges rule the WikiLeaks founder should face accusations of rape in Sweden  —  The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has lost his high court appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations.
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BBC:
Wikileaks' Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
Discussion: msnbc.com and US Politics
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama On Bad Economy: “I'm Less Interested In Allocating Blame”  —  WCCO-TV of Minnesota, one of the several local news stations to interview the president, asked Obama when it is time for him to start blaming himself for economic woes.  Relevant transcript below: WCCO-TV correspondent …
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Alex Sundby / CBS News:
Obama: “Steady progress” on fixing economy
Discussion: Washington Post and Weasel Zippers
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Campaign 2012: Welcome to the slugfest  —  Forget hope and change.  President Obama's reelection campaign is going to be based on fear and loathing: fear of what a Republican takeover would mean, and loathing of whomever the Republican nominee turns out to be.
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Amy Walter / ABCNEWS:
Pro-Obama Super PAC Attacks Romney in New Video
Discussion: HotAirPundit
Phil Mattingly / Bloomberg:
Lawmakers to Propose Transaction Tax for Financial Firms Modeled on Europe  —  Two U.S. lawmakers will introduce measures to impose a transaction tax on financial firms that resembles a proposal released by the European Union.  —  Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, and Representative Peter DeFazio …
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Dismal Tale of Arrest for Tiniest of Crimes  —  The arresting officer came by the cell, Samantha Zucker said, to make snide remarks about finding her with a friend in Riverside Park after its 1 a.m. closing.  —  For instance:  —  “He was telling me that I needed to get a new boyfriend …
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
LGBT groups withhold support from education bill  —  Several LGBT organizations say they “do not support” the Senate version of education reform legislation as it currently stands due to the lack of protections for LGBT students and what they say is a rollback of federal accountability for schools.
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Gov. Barbour May Vote Against Mississippi's Personhood Abortion Ban: It ‘Concerns Me, I Have To Just Say It’  —  On Nov. 8, Mississippi voters will vote on Initiative 26, a personhood constitutional amendment that defines a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.”
 
 
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ABCNEWS:
Goldline Execs Charged With Fraud
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Soren Dayton / RedState:
FBI arrests 8 in Florida for absentee ballot fraud
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
House Republicans, keeping the faith
David Catanese / The Politico:
Heitkamp telling Dems she's running for Senate
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Nelson still pondering re-election decision
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Obama 'can't wait' to fight Romney
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
US Marshals turned loose to collect $63,720.80 from Righthaven
Discussion: TalkLeft
Wall Street Journal:
A Partisan Test for Voter Laws
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Haaretz:
Netanyahu trying to persuade cabinet to support attack on Iran
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Another “Occupier” Raped, In Baltimore [With Update: Occupier Assaults 14-Year-Old Girl in Dallas]
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Kim Severson / New York Times:
Southern Manners on Decline, Some Say
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
 
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