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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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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
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, Gawker, Daily Kos, GOP 12 and Prairie Weather
Wesley Pruden / Washington Times:
Herman Cain and innuendos
Herman Cain and innuendos
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American Spectator and Instapundit
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Cain's Campaign Aide Faces Tough Questions
Cain's Campaign Aide Faces Tough Questions
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msnbc.com, Washington Wire, Business Insider, The Raw Story, The Atlantic Online, The Caucus, Iowa Caucuses and Campaign 2012
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, Online NewsHour, Swampland, 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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Althouse, The Caucus, msnbc.com, The Hill, Business Insider, The Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Gloria Cain Won't Do Fox Appearance
Gloria Cain Won't Do Fox Appearance
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Business Insider, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, msnbc.com and Saint Petersblog
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, Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs and OWS Exposed
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ wants a bailout — Sarah Palin says the Occupy Wall Street protesters are just clamoring for the same “bailout” that the “fat cats” in the financial industry received from the government. — “They say, 'Wall Street fat cats got a bailout …
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players …
ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players …
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Journalism.org, Betsy's Page, The Other McCain, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative
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
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Huckabee defends Romney on abortion — Mike Huckabee was on Fox News today, where he talked about Mitt Romney's position on abortion, as well as the DNC's new attack ad, linking Mitt to an anti-abortion measure in Mississippi. — Huckabee: … Two comments.
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Antiabortion movement hoping for electoral victory in Miss.
Antiabortion movement hoping for electoral victory in Miss.
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ABCNEWS, Ben Smith's Blog and Hot Air
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘As consistent as human beings can be’
‘As consistent as human beings can be’
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CNN, Conservatives4Palin and Liberal Values
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
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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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Barack Obama's Fatal Error: Monetary Policy
Barack Obama's Fatal Error: Monetary Policy
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Political Mojo
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 …
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
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
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
New York Times:
Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say — WASHINGTON — When the Census Bureau said in September that the number of poor Americans had soared by 10 million to rates rarely seen in four decades, commentators called the report “shocking” and “bleak.” Most poverty experts would add another description: “flawed.”
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National Review, The Heritage Foundation, Via Meadia, Gawker and Economix
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, Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Pundit & Pundette, Michelle Malkin and The Right Scoop
Calculated Risk:
Employment Summary, Part Time Workers, and Unemployed over 26 Weeks — This was a weak report, and the headline number was slightly below consensus forecasts. However some of the underlying data was a little more encouraging (with emphasis on “little"). — There were only 80,000 jobs added in October.
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Felix Salmon, Economist's View, Money & Company, The Big Picture and Michigan Messenger
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Jobs report hints at some improvement
Jobs report hints at some improvement
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New York Times, The Politico, americanthinker.com and New York Magazine
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.
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, Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers and The Impolitic
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 …
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
Associated Press:
Bishops' aide resigns over gay devil column — BOSTON (AP) — The author of a newspaper column suggesting the devil may be responsible for homosexuality has resigned from his job with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. — A spokeswoman for the Roman Catholic bishops said Friday …
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Right Wing Watch, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Expensive Urban Real Estate is a Consumption Choice — Speaking of things that sent my twitter feed into a frenzy of conservative “Tu quoquing”, earlier in the week the Daily Caller found an interesting way to settle the ongoing debate about the demographics of Occupy Wall Street …
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Rod Dreher