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Richard Pollock / PJ Media:
BREAKING: PJM Sources Report Details of Alleged Cain Incident … Adding to the ongoing Herman Cain sexual harassment controversy, two sources have now confirmed to PJ Media that a female employee of the National Restaurant Association told associates she had been brought by Mr. Cain to his Crystal City …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Cainaquiddick: Where Source-Based Journalism Goes to Die … - The Three Reasons Republicans Are Fervently Defending Herman Cain - Bank of America Learns It Must Be More Subtle About Screwing Its Customers - Ruth Madoff's Nationwide Sympathy Tour: Does Anyone Feel Bad for Her?
The Politico:
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation — Herman Cain flatly denies the most serious allegation facing him - that he made an unwanted sexual advance toward a female employee at a work event - but POLITICO has learned new details making clear there were urgent discussions …
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CNN, The Caucus, Hot Air, Washington Post and The Reaction
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Pamela Geller: 'I Endorse Herman Cain. What He Doesn't Know, We'll Teach Him' — Is this the kind of help Herman Cain is looking for this week? — Cain has now picked up a top endorsement from the right-wing blogosphere: Pamela Geller, the anti-Islam campaigner and Birther.
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Pundit & Pundette, Atlas Shrugs and Fox News
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The Politico:
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation — The details put a woman's account even more sharply at odds with Cain's.
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Cain camp considering legal action against Politico — A Herman Cain aide said Thursday that the Cain campaign is considering its legal options over the original Politico story, which revealed that the former head of the National Restaurant Association was accused of sexually harassing at least two women during his tenure in the 1990s.
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Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, Big Journalism, American Spectator and Business Insider
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Top Iowa supporter for Herman Cain blames Mark Block for fumbled response
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ABCNEWS, The Right Scoop, The Other McCain, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Cain Adviser Walks Back Perry Accusation
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New York Times, Little Green Footballs and The Daily Dish
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Herman Cain Campaign Is Stuck on Stupid
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Guardian, The Moderate Voice, GOP 12, The Daily Caller, Little Green Footballs, ABCNEWS and American Spectator
Bernie Goldberg / Fox News:
Cain Harassment Issue: Who Said What to Whom?
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The Daily Dish, ThinkProgress, Philly.com and The Reaction
The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren Heckled By Tea Party Supporter … BROCKTON, Mass. — Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate candidate. The man, who said he'd been unemployed …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
More Americans supporting Occupy Wall Street
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Romney Campaign Memo: The Koch Brothers Are The ‘Financial Engine Of The Tea Party’ — Mitt Romney speaking at a Koch summit in previous years; David Koch speaking at his own gala — Tomorrow, billionaire David Koch and presidential candidate Mitt Romney are set to speak …
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Nate Silver / New York Times:
Is Obama Toast? Handicapping the 2012 Election — Americans are usually forgiving when they vote a man into the White House and he wants a second term. Of the last eight elected presidents, all but two — George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter — got their four more years.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Polling the ‘sabotage’ question — To one degree or another, the “sabotage” question has been generating some debate for about a year now. It is, admittedly, a provocative subject: are Republicans trying to hurt the nation's economy on purpose, simply to undermine the Obama presidency?
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PewResearch.org:
The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election
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Los Angeles Times and Firedoglake
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Will voters buy the idea that GOP is sabotaging economy?
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Business Insider and Saint Petersblog
Rasmussen Reports:
National Poll: Cain 26%, Romney 23%, Gingrich 14% — Georgia businessman Herman Cain, who continues to battle past allegations of sexual harassment, draws the most support nationally for the Republican nomination. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey …
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Don Surber, GOP 12, Freedom's Lighthouse, Washington Wire, Saint Petersblog and Hullabaloo
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
30 Major Corporations Paid No Income Taxes In The Last Three Years, While Making $160 Billion — One of the driving forces behind the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests is the fact that corporations have not been paying their fair share in taxes. A new report from Citizens for Tax Justice …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Cain accuser got $45,000 — The woman who received the payout is the staffer who Cain has acknowledged formally lodged a complaint.
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Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, The Caucus, Harry's Place, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite, Daily Kos and msnbc.com
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Mitt Romney: 'I've been as consistent as human beings can be' — Mitt Romney, under fire from all sides on the strength of his political convictions, said Thursday he has been as consistent as a person can be during his political career. — “I've been as consistent as human beings can be …
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CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Liberal Values and Weasel Zippers
David Beckworth / The New Republic:
Tight Budgets, Loose Money: Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Are Wrong About How to Fix the Economy — Both the left and the right have been consistently peddling the wrong prescriptions for our economy. Most liberals are focused on the need for additional fiscal stimulus …
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The Atlantic Online, National Review and New York Times
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
The Smartest People In Washington Are 100% Wrong About Stimulating The Economy
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National Review and The New Republic
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Christian Student Beaten to Death for Wearing Cross — Arab Spring, Egyptian edition: a 17 year old Christian in a high school in Mallawi was ordered by his teacher to cover up a tattoo of a cross on his wrist. True to his faith, he refused to do so and instead exposed a crucifix that he wore around his neck.
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The Lonely Conservative, Wizbang and Vox Popoli
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The Birth Control Solution — What if there were a solution to many of the global problems that confront us, from climate change to poverty to civil wars? There is, but it is starved of resources. It's called family planning, and it has been a victim of America's religious wars.
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National Review and NewsBusters.org blogs
Joseph Berger / New York Times:
Suit Against Photographer Seeks Re-creation of Wedding After Divorce — Of all the many things that make up a wedding, few are more important than the photographs. — Long after the last of the cake has grown stale and the tossed bouquet has wilted, the photos endure …
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Shirley Galdino / Flying Teapot:
Interview: Founder of group that ‘heals homosexuals’ out of the closet — Translation: Sérgio Viula — Founder of group that ‘heals homosexuals’ reveals: “Nobody quit being gay, there were relationships even within the group” — Nothing better than an example to rebuke …
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Rick Perry, in Silicon Valley, defends NH speech — SAN JOSE — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, on a fundraising swing in California, spoke at length for the first time Wednesday about his eyebrow-raising address in New Hampshire last week that has gone viral on the Internet, saying it was …
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Los Angeles Times, Wonkette, Washington Post, CNN, Hot Air, The Raw Story and ABCNEWS
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Boehner calls anti-tax crusader Norquist ‘some random person’ — Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner downplayed the influence of Washington's most notable anti-tax crusader, calling Grover Norquist “some random person” at his weekly press conference Thursday.
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The Politico and Indecision Forever
Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:
New congressional map fails to get enough votes from Dems — House Speaker William G. Batchelder, R-Medina, put his map up for a vote today and warned earlier that, if Democrats did not provide the votes to suspend House rules and pass the map as an emergency measure, or do not work …
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