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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Cain rises in Post-ABC poll despite scandal; most Republicans dismiss allegations — Businessman Herman Cain and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney are running nearly even atop the field of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows …
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Firedoglake, Althouse, Hot Air, CNN, Gawker, Riehl World View, The Politico, Daily Kos, skippy the bush kangaroo, The New Republic, The Caucus, Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Raw Story, Outside the Beltway, Don Surber, Washington Wire, Little Green Footballs, National Review, Balloon Juice, iOwnTheWorld.com, Associated Press, Guardian, New York Magazine, The Reaction, msnbc.com and The Daily Dish
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama, Romney Tied Nationally and in Swing States — Romney fares better vs. Obama than Perry, Cain — PRINCETON, NJ — Registered voters nationally and in 12 key swing states are evenly divided in their preferences for president in the 2012 election between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney.
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CNN, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, National Review, The Daily Dish, Saint Petersblog and USA Today
Peter H. Stone / iWatch News:
Koch-related group is reviewing financial transactions with Cain aide's charity — GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain Carolyn Kaster/AP — The conservative grassroots goliath, Americans for Prosperity, has confirmed that it had financial transactions with at least one charity …
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Ballot Box, Washington Post, The Caucus, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com and The Daily Caller
Wesley Pruden / Washington Times:
Herman Cain and innuendos
Herman Cain and innuendos
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The Spectacle Blog and Instapundit
Chip Somodevilla / ABCNEWS:
Cain Shows Initial Resilience in the Face of Controversy
Cain Shows Initial Resilience in the Face of Controversy
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The Atlantic Online, Swampland, Online NewsHour, Scared Monkeys, Taegan Goddard's … and Saint Petersblog
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Woman Said to Have Felt Hostility at Work After Complaining About Cain
Woman Said to Have Felt Hostility at Work After Complaining About Cain
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The Politico, Althouse, The Caucus, msnbc.com, Business Insider, The Hill, Washington Post and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »
Kim Dixon / Reuters:
Cain mulls lawsuit against Politico: aide
Cain mulls lawsuit against Politico: aide
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Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Gloria Cain Won't Do Fox Appearance
Gloria Cain Won't Do Fox Appearance
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, msnbc.com, Saint Petersblog and The Politico
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Political Class Clowns
Political Class Clowns
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No More Mister Nice Blog and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Jana Winter / Fox News:
ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests — Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York — operating as New York Communities for Change — have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers …
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Journalism.org, Betsy's Page, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Lonely Conservative
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ wants a bailout
Sarah Palin: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ wants a bailout
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Mediaite, CNN and The PJ Tatler, more at Mediagazer »
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Palin slams ‘entitled’ Occupy Wall Street protesters
Palin slams ‘entitled’ Occupy Wall Street protesters
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Weasel Zippers
CBS Denver:
Moore Lashes Out At CBS4 Over Wealth Questions — Filmmaker Visits Occupy Denver Protesters — DENVER (CBS4) - Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore joined a growing crowd at the “Occupy” Denver protest Thursday evening, but his encounter with CBS4 left him fuming when he was asked …
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Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, NewsBusters.org blogs, Weasel Zippers and OWS Exposed
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tightens Drone Rules — The Central Intelligence Agency has made a series of secret concessions in its drone campaign after military and diplomatic officials complained large strikes were damaging the fragile U.S. relationship with Pakistan. — The covert drones are credited …
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Kimberly Dozier / The Huffington Post:
CIA Open Source Center Follows Foreign Twitter, Facebook Accounts
CIA Open Source Center Follows Foreign Twitter, Facebook Accounts
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Clive Stafford Smith / New York Times:
For Our Allies, Death From Above
DealBook:
As Regulators Pressed Changes, Corzine Pushed Back, and Won — Months before MF Global teetered on the brink, federal regulators were seeking to rein in the types of risky trades that contributed to the firm's collapse. But they faced opposition from an influential opponent: Jon S. Corzine …
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Peter Lattman / DealBook:
Corzine Is Said to Hire Criminal Lawyer
Corzine Is Said to Hire Criminal Lawyer
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ABCNEWS, Michelle Malkin, CNNMoney.com, CBS News, Business Insider, ProPublica, Reuters and The PJ Tatler
Kevin Fasick / New York Post:
Deranged homeless man goes on violent rampage in Zuccotti Park — This is the new face of Zuccotti Park! — A deranged homeless man who has been squatting among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in lower Manhattan went on a violent, early-morning rampage yesterday, cursing incoherently and kicking down tents.
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Gothamist, Runnin' Scared, Booman Tribune, Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Developer with shotgun scared off Oakland rioters — OAKLAND — Oakland developer Phil Tagami is used to working behind the scenes to broker some of the biggest deals in town. Late Wednesday, he was using different persuasive skills - holding a loaded shotgun to scare away rioters trying to get into a downtown building.
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Campaign 2012, National Review, Sister Toldjah, Michelle Malkin, Pundit & Pundette and The Right Scoop
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Deadbeat Rep. Joe Walsh, Who Owes $100k In Child Support, Receives ‘Pro-Family’ Award From Family Research Council — In July, the press learned that Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), a Tea Party freshman in Congress, owed $117,000 in unpaid child support to his ex-wife.
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Rep. Walsh lauded by group for being pro-family, though accused of owing child support
Rep. Walsh lauded by group for being pro-family, though accused of owing child support
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Little Green Footballs, Wonkette and The Raw Story
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Jobs report hints at some improvement — (Reuters) - U.S. employment rose less than expected in October, but a drop in the jobless rate to a six-month low of 9.0 percent and upward revisions to prior months' job gains pointed to a strengthening labor market.
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New York Times, The Politico, americanthinker.com and New York Magazine
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Oligarchy, American Style — Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It's time to roll out the obfuscators! — Anyone who has tracked this issue over time knows what I mean.
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The Mahablog, Prairie Weather, Economist's View and Paul Krugman
Ezra Klein / New York Review of Books:
Obama's Flunking Economy: The Real Cause — Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President — Harper, 515 pp., $29.99 — Ron Suskind's Confidence Men is not a calm first draft of history. It is not an impartial or unbiased look at the Obama administration's first two years.
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ThinkProgress and Biased BBC
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A Democratic convention tests a right-to-work state [UPDATED] — As the Democratic National Convention gets rolling in Charlotte, the tensions between the party's labor allies and North Carolina's fiercely anti-labor political and business leaders remains on the surface.
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RedState, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos and The Impolitic
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard) — LAST FALL, President Obama threw what was billed as the first White House Science Fair, a photo op in the gilt-mirrored State Dining Room. He tested a steering wheel designed by middle schoolers to detect distracted driving and peeked inside a robot that plays soccer.
Peter Overby / NPR:
Cain Has Long Ties To Koch Brothers-Linked Group … Republican Herman Cain, facing allegations of sexual harassment, returns Friday to a familiar, and presumably friendly, venue — the annual convention of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group founded by billionaire businessmen David and Charles Koch.
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CREW, New York Times, Daily Kos, GOP 12 and Prairie Weather
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘As consistent as human beings can be’ — Several weeks ago, in one of the more amusing political claims of the year, Mitt Romney boasted, “I stand by my positions. I'm proud of them.” Given Romney's record of abandoning every policy position he's ever taken, it was hard not to marvel at his shamelessness.
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CNN, Conservatives4Palin and Liberal Values
Matt Cover / CNSNews:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Saying Life Begins at Conception Is ‘Extreme and Radical’ — (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday that for states to enact constitutional amendments that say human life begins at conception is “an extreme and radical step.”
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Weasel Zippers, National Review and The Gateway Pundit
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Threat of the Day — This blog's seen a recent really unpleasant uptick in trolling and now, violent threats. When I started posting some of the things people were saying on Twitter, Fast Company editor Nancy Miller suggested that bloggers start tweeting the harassment they get …