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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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The Politico:
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation
Sources reveal new details about Cain allegation
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Wesley Pruden / Washington Times:
Herman Cain and innuendos
Herman Cain and innuendos
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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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Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Gloria Cain Won't Do Fox Appearance
Gloria Cain Won't Do Fox Appearance
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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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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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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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Fars News Agency:
Iranian Demonstrators Voice Support for Occupy Wall Street Protests — TEHRAN (FNA)- Participants in the countrywide November 4th rallies voiced support for the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US and other anti-capitalism movements in the West, and cautioned the White House to stop ignoring the demands of the American people.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Palin slams ‘entitled’ Occupy Wall Street protesters
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
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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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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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
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Political Class Clowns — For a Republican Party that has spent the better part of its presidential campaign proving that most of its candidates are not smarter than a fifth grader, the real scandal around frontrunner-of-the-moment Herman Cain is not what he knows. It's what he doesn't know.
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NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg says White House candidates must believe in evolution, global warming
Mayor Bloomberg says White House candidates must believe in evolution, global warming
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Can Santorum move up? — On Friday in Iowa, Republican …
Can Santorum move up? — On Friday in Iowa, Republican …
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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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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 …
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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Richard Kim / The Nation:
The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street — This article appeared in the November 21, 2011 edition of The Nation. — Recommended by — First Page - | - Web Letter (0) - | - Write a Letter - | - Take Action - | - Subscribe Now — A few years ago, Joe Therrien …
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
State Department training Islamic political parties in Egypt — U.S. assistance to Egypt is helping political parties of all ideologies prepare for the upcoming elections — even Islamic parties that may have anti-Western agendas. — “We don't do party support.
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Amanda Lee Myers / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Giffords vows return to Congress — PHOENIX (AP) — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords vows to return to Congress in a new book that details months of intense therapy and her emotional battle to come to terms with what happened when a gunman opened fire in front of a Tucson grocery store.
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