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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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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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Kim Dixon / Reuters:
Cain mulls lawsuit against Politico: aide
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Wesley Pruden / Washington Times:
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
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The Politico:
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation
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Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Gloria Cain Won't Do Fox Appearance
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Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Political Class Clowns
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Woman Said to Have Felt Hostility at Work After Complaining About Cain
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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, The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, Betsy's Page, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Lonely Conservative
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ wants a bailout
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Palin slams ‘entitled’ Occupy Wall Street protesters
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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 — Jon S. Corzine has hired Andrew J. Levander, a leading white-collar criminal defense lawyer, according to three people briefed on the matter, as the former New Jersey governor deals with fallout from the collapse of MF Global, the brokerage firm he has run since last year.
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Kevin Roose / DealBook:
Corzine Resigns From MF Global
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Outside the Beltway, The PJ Tatler and Gawker
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
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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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, Michelle Malkin, Sister Toldjah, National Review, Pundit & Pundette and The Right Scoop
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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
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
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Little Green Footballs 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
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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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 …
Nolongerquivering / NO LONGER QIVERING:
Corpses Don't Rebel: A former follower of Michael Pearl's “To Train Up A Child” reacts to the death of Hana Williams — Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of infant and child abuse. — www.youtube.com/watch? v=BP3gvhaA4uo — This piece was submitted …
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Crooks and Liars and Sky Dancing
Katy Stech / Wall Street Journal:
Dippin' Dots Files for Bankruptcy — The future of ice cream is having trouble surviving today. — Dippin' Dots Inc., the self-described “ice cream of the future,” filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Paducah, Ky., near its headquarters …
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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
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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GOP 12, Prairie Weather and New York Times
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A Democratic convention tests a right-to-work state — 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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aglanon's blog, Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
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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