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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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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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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Top House Dem says Cain thought he was above presidential vetting process
Top House Dem says Cain thought he was above presidential vetting process
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Weasel Zippers
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Personal behavior seen as critical to how they cast ballot, say voters
Personal behavior seen as critical to how they cast ballot, say voters
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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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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Romney is the Hillary Clinton of 2012 — Mitt Romney could be the Hillary Clinton of 2012. — That may seem an ill portent, given that Clinton lost the nomination. But being Clinton in 2012 might be better than being Clinton in 2008. — Ideologically disparate though the two politicians are …
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Washington Post:
Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows — Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a significant advantage over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in only one area — electability — and will approach the next round …
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Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
Cain Holds Big Lead Over GOP Rivals in Iowa
Cain Holds Big Lead Over GOP Rivals in Iowa
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Hot Air and Say Anything
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 …
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JunkScience.com, Paul Krugman, Northern Reflections and Prairie Weather
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Democrat leads in key Iowa race — The special election that will determine control of the Iowa State Senate on Tuesday is close, but it looks like Democrats will probably hold serve. Democrat Liz Mathis leads Republican Cindy Golding 52-46 in our poll taken over the weekend.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
SB 5 headed for big defeat
SB 5 headed for big defeat
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Eric Kleefeld / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — Poll: Ohio Set To Vote Big Against Kasich's Anti-Union Law
TPMDC — Poll: Ohio Set To Vote Big Against Kasich's Anti-Union Law
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The Hill, Where's the Outrage? and Talking Points Memo
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.
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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.
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GOP 12 and Weasel Zippers
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.
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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 …
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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) …
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Swampland, GOP 12, National Review and The Apothecary
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 …
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Ben Smith's Blog and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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
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Scared Monkeys, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Israel Matzav
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 …
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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 …
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Washington Monthly, Brilliant at Breakfast, Shakesville and Daily Kos
Jack Kelly / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The big college scam — It's bad enough; the president's loan initiative will make it that much worse — The biggest consumer ripoff in America today — and the next economic bubble to burst — is higher education. — Tuition and fees at colleges and universities rose 439 percent between 1982 and 2007.