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8:15 AM ET, November 7, 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
Discussion: Daily Kos
First Read / msnbc.com:
Cain has a last word on harassment case
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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
Washington Examiner:
White House should stop fighting Solyndra subpoena  —  Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who is the ranking minority member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, opposed the panel's decision last week to issue a subpoena for all White House documents related to the decision …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Ben Smith's Blog
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A year from Election 2012, a dark mood awaits Obama and GOP rival
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Politico
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
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Personal behavior seen as critical to how they cast ballot, say voters  —  An overwhelming majority of likely voters think it's important to consider a politician's private foibles when assessing his or her suitability for office.  —  But they also contend that presidential campaigns …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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) …
Discussion: GOP 12, Swampland and National Review
New York Times:
Leaders in Greece Agree to Deal to Form a Unity Government  —  ATHENS — Prime Minister George Papandreou and his chief rival agreed Sunday night to create a new unity government, under a new prime minister, that will move ahead with the country's debt-relief deal with the European Union and then hold new elections.
Discussion: The Page
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Chriss W. Street / Big Government:
The Municipal Bond Market Is Imploding
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Wall Street's resurgent prosperity frustrates its claims, and Obama's
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Rediscovered 2004 Senate ad shows Obama pitching similar rhetorical themes
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Barry Ritholtz / Washington Post:
What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Big Picture
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Oakland Police Shoot Protester With Rubber Bullet As He Films Them
Wall Street Journal:
More Retailers Attack at ‘Black Midnight’
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Two Ways Of Looking At The Job Market In March 2010
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Our Reckless Meritocracy  —  HERE is a story about the promise of America.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and TBogg
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Jon Huntsman: Personhood Movement ‘Goes Too Far’
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Occupy Blue Wall Street?
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