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11:00 PM ET, November 6, 2011

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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Cain's support dips after sex accusations: poll  —  (Reuters) - Allegations that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s have begun to damage his bid for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.  —  The poll showed the percentage of Republicans …
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Leonard Pitts Jr / MiamiHerald.com:
Pious racial indignation over Cain's offenses  —  Do you think it gives Clarence Thomas a warm, fuzzy feeling to know he is one of Ann Coulter's blacks?  —  That is how Coulter put it on Fox “News” while defending Herman Cain against sexual harassment charges that threatened to engulf his campaign last week.
First Read / msnbc.com:
Cain has a last word on harassment case
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Hutchison defends Cain, refuses to backtrack on criticisms of Perry
Discussion: CNN
Candice M. Giove / New York Post:
Post reporter spends an in'tents' night amid anarchy in Zuccotti Park  —  The cheap walkie-talkie crackles inside a crowded downtown McDonald's, stopping the gathered mass mid-sip from their Kombucha bottles and cups of corporate coffee.  —  “There's a situation,” a vagabond gumshoe dubbed …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Our Reckless Meritocracy  —  HERE is a story about the promise of America.  A boy grows up in rural Illinois, the grandson of a farmer who lost everything in the Great Depression.  He goes to his small-town high school and then attends his state university, where he walks onto the basketball team and graduates Phi Beta Kappa.
Discussion: TBogg
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Oakland Police Shoot Protester With Rubber Bullet As He Films Them  —  Video has emerged of Oakland police using a rubber bullet to shoot a protester as he was filming them.  The incident apparently occurred after midnight on November 3rd, the night after the general strike activists had called for.
Matt DoBias / The Politico:
Ex-Pelosi aide's turnabout work  —  Even by the revolving-door standards of Washington, this one has heads spinning: The Democratic staffer who was Nancy Pelosi's messaging guru during the health care debate is now working for a group led by the law's most powerful opponents.
Discussion: US Politics
Wall Street Journal:
More Retailers Attack at ‘Black Midnight’  —  Doors to Open Hours Earlier to Get Jump on Competition  —  Holiday shoppers, say hello to Black Midnight.  —  Best Buy Co. is joining the list of big store chains opening at midnight after Thanksgiving this year in hopes of getting a jump on the competition …
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Two Ways Of Looking At The Job Market In March 2010  —  Here's the way I think the Obama administration saw it:  —  That's a steep downturn at the end of the Bush administration followed by a sharp recovery.  Verdict: Our crisis intervention measures worked, and the conditions for future growth are set.
Discussion: Brad DeLong
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Head and Body Lice Outbreak Announced at #Occupy Portland Squatters Camp (Video)  —  Can we join?... Please, please, please!  —  A lice outbreak was announced at the #Occupy Portland squatters camp this weekend.  —  Head AND Body lice.  —  Hat Tip South Texian
Mike Wise / Washington Post:
If Jerry Sandusky allegations are true, Penn State and Joe Paterno deserve part of the blame  —  After what allegedly happened to “Victim 2,” a boy estimated to be 10 years old, in the same room where Penn State football players shower, it's near impossible to keep reading the grand jury's report.
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Joe Juliano / Philly.com:   Two Penn State officials charged in connection with sex-abuse investigation
Barry Ritholtz / Washington Post:
What caused the financial crisis?  The Big Lie goes viral.  —  I have a fairly simple approach to investing: Start with data and objective evidence to determine the dominant elements driving the market action right now.  Figure out what objective reality is beneath all of the noise.
Discussion: The Big Picture and Hullabaloo
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Rediscovered 2004 Senate ad shows Obama pitching similar rhetorical themes  —  A rediscovered video from Barack Obama's 2004 Senate race shows him road-testing his current rhetorical techniques, pitching far-left policies, and depicting business and the marketplace as negative forces.
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Matt Negrin / The Politico:
It's not about serving the rich, Boehner says  —  House Speaker John Boehner disputes the notion that Republicans are “servants of the rich.”  —  “That's very unfair,” Boehner said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”  “Listen, I come from a family of 12.  My dad owned a bar.
Scott Farwell / Dallas Morning News:
Rick Perry's parents say their son is strong medicine needed by a sickly nation  —  Rick Perry has no bigger suppporters than his parents, Amelia and Ray Perry of Paint Creek, Texas.  —  of  —  sfarwell@dallasnews.com  —  PAINT CREEK, Texas — Rick Perry may be the 61-year-old governor of Texas …
 
 
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Kamal Ahmed / Telegraph:
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Mike Mayo / Wall Street Journal:
Why Wall Street Can't Handle the Truth
Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Truthdig
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A year from Election 2012, a dark mood awaits Obama and GOP rival
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses
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Jon Huntsman: Personhood Movement ‘Goes Too Far’
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 Earlier Items: 
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Hutchison: Cain allegations ‘politics as usual’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Just Another Saturday Night in Afghanistan
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The $8 Trillion Internet: McKinsey's Bold Attempt to Measure the E-conomy
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Matthew Goldstein / Unstructured Finance:
MF Global and the rubber check
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican Senate leader dons flak jacket after friendly fire on spending
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
President Obama marks the Hajj and Eid al-Adha
Discussion: Israel Matzav and PoliPundit.com
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Eric Holder has a gun problem
Discussion: JustOneMinute, Hot Air and Instapundit