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11:25 AM ET, November 7, 2011

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Tony Radar / RADAR:
New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred  —  A new woman alleging sexual harassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain will break her silence at a news conference with her powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred Monday afternoon in New York City, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
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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 …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Top House Dem: Cain thought he was above presidential vetting process  —  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain saw himself “above” the presidential vetting process which is why he was “blindsided” by allegations that he sexually harassed two women, said Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.).
Discussion: CNN and Weasel Zippers
Washington Examiner:
Conservatives shouldn't play the race card, either
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
Cain Holds Big Lead Over GOP Rivals in Iowa
Discussion: Hot Air and Say Anything
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Personal behavior seen as critical to how they cast ballot, say voters
Discussion: Prairie Weather
David Remnick / New Yorker:
DECLINE AND FALL  —  Sometime in the future, when a twenty-first-century Gibbon searches for a moment to use as a starting point for a chronicle of American decline, he or she might want to alight on the late-October and early-November days of 2011.  Not that there is much to be gained …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Bill Clinton sticks up for Rick Perry on immigration  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry has an unexpected defender: Former president Bill Clinton.  —  In an interview with USA TODAY, Clinton said he didn't think much of the Republican field vying for the nomination against President Obama.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Bill Clinton's back, with a plan to help the economy  —  A few dozen ideas, in fact, about ways large and small to get unemployed Americans back to work — from granting property tax breaks for investments that create jobs to painting every flat tar roof in U.S. cities white for the energy savings.
Discussion: The Politico
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Romney is the Hillary Clinton of 2012
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Washington Post:
Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
SB 5 headed for big defeat  —  Labor is poised for a big victory in Ohio Tuesday.  PPP's final poll on Issue 2 finds 59% of voters plan to reject Senate Bill 5, with only 36% voting for approval.  —  What might be most remarkable about the 23 point margin in this poll is that it's exactly identical …
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Trumka heads to Ohio before referendum vote
Eric Kleefeld / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Poll: Ohio Set To Vote Big Against Kasich's Anti-Union Law
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Here Comes the Sun  —  For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it.  Moore's Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months …
CBS News:
Mississippi votes: When does life begin?  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - Les Riley draws on his religious convictions to explain why he led the petition drive that put Mississippi's “Personhood Amendment” on the state ballot.  —  “We believe God has already told us …
Discussion: Indecision Forever and Hullabaloo
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Down to the wire on Personhood Amendment
Discussion: The Raw Story
Pew Research Center / PewResearch.org:
The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being  —  The Old Prosper Relative to the Young  —  Older adults have made dramatic gains relative to younger adults in their economic well being during the past quarter century, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from two key U.S. Census sources.
Discussion: Say Anything
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Study: Record young-old wealth gap
Discussion: Hot Air
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Romney just dramatically raised the stakes vs. Obama  —  The Day of Reckoning is here, or will be in 2013.  The next president and Congress will need to make huge decisions about taxes and spending.  And those actions will help determine whether America's economic future will be one of a) …
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability  —  Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran's government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles …
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
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings  —  There's no question that President Obama faces one of the most challenging political environments in modern memory as he prepares to try to win a second term next November.  —  But with one year …
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
A Hidden Toll as States Shift to Contract Workers  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Like many states and local governments struggling to cut costs, Michigan hopes to replace some government employees with contract workers who will do the same job for less.  —  Ginny Townsend, 41 …
Discussion: The Agonist and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
The Next Fight Over Jobs  —  The way the job market is going, it will never be robust enough to bring down the unemployment rate, now at 9 percent, or 13.9 million people.  Monthly job growth has slowed to an average of just 90,000 new jobs a month over the past six months …
New York Post:
Occupy until ‘2025’!  —  Now they want to Occupy the Future.  —  Determined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have vowed they're not leaving Zuccotti Park anytime soon, and their online agenda suggests they mean business — with events scheduled through Oct. 26, 2025.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Debbie Cenziper / Washington Post:
Finding more flaws in HUD's accounting of HOME program
Jeff Randall / Telegraph:
McDonald's chief: Curb spending and cut taxes
Chris Elliott / Guardian:
The readers' editor on... averting accusations of antisemitism
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Emily Babay / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court to hear GPS surveillance case
Emmarie Huetteman / The Caucus:
An Aloof Romney in a Plane Encounter
Discussion: Business Insider, Hot Air and Mediaite
Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal:
Credit Unions Poach Clients
The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
Democrats More Liberal, Less White Than in 2008
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Politico
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
Was ‘cash for clunkers’ a clunker?
Discussion: RedState and Eschaton
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Expands War on Drugs
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CBS News:
Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Chriss W. Street / Big Government:
The Municipal Bond Market Is Imploding
Jack Kelly / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The big college scam
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Wall Street's resurgent prosperity frustrates its claims, and Obama's
Matt DoBias / The Politico:
Ex-Pelosi aide's turnabout work
Discussion: US Politics
 

 
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