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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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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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Michelle Malkin:
Circus Circus: Gloria Allred jumps on the Cain Train; Cain staff “welcomes” Allred to staff — What a way to kick off the week. At least we had an extra hour from Daylight Saving Time to prepare. — Yep: Gloria Allred is back. And she's scrambling to hop aboard the Cain Train. — Gird your loins.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Clyburn: Cain thought he was ‘above’ presidential vetting process
Clyburn: Cain thought he was ‘above’ presidential vetting process
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CNN and Weasel Zippers
Washington Post:
Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows
Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Cain's support dips after sex accusations: poll
Cain's support dips after sex accusations: poll
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
New Cain accuser to discuss sexual harassment claims
New Cain accuser to discuss sexual harassment claims
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Ben Smith's Blog and The Other McCain
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Lawyer: 4th Cain accuser will speak publicly Monday
Lawyer: 4th Cain accuser will speak publicly Monday
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Zeke Miller / Business Insider:
Conservatives Launch ‘Not Mitt Romney’ Campaign, Warn Of Dire Consequences If Romney Is The GOP Nominee — A coalition of conservatives have launched a campaign against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney's candidacy to prevent him from becoming the GOP nominee next year.
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Ali A. Akbar / Des Moines Register:
Guest columnist: Conservative Iowans owe it to nation to reject Mitt
Guest columnist: Conservative Iowans owe it to nation to reject Mitt
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Not Mitt Romney, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler and National Review
Emmarie Huetteman / The Caucus:
An Aloof Romney in a Plane Encounter
An Aloof Romney in a Plane Encounter
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Hot Air, Business Insider and Mediaite
Matt Viser / The Boston Globe:
Female voters drawn to Romney this time
Female voters drawn to Romney this time
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Indecision Forever and ABCNEWS
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Independents and moderates agree: GOP deliberately sabotaging Obama's jobs policies — Ever since Obama began aggressively calling out the GOP for obstructing his jobs policies, insisting that Republicans are “putting party before country,” pundits have ominously warned that he risks alienating …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The growing acceptance of the ‘sabotage’ question
The growing acceptance of the ‘sabotage’ question
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Washington Post and Daily Kos
New York Times:
The Next Fight Over Jobs
The Next Fight Over Jobs
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Brilliant at Breakfast, Daily Kos and Shakesville
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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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
Bill Clinton sticks up for Rick Perry on immigration
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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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Democrat leads in key Iowa race
Democrat leads in key Iowa race
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann: ‘If Anyone Will Not Work, Neither Should He Eat’ — GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann promised to significantly lower funding to social safety net programs during a speech at the Family Research Council this morning, going so far as to suggest that people who can't work should not eat.
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Indecision Forever
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann calls some GOP opponents ‘frugal socialists’
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Down to the wire on Personhood Amendment — It looks like the race to watch in Mississippi on Tuesday night will be the state's proposed ‘Personhood Amendment,’ which would make the state's laws regarding abortion and birth control the strictest of any state in the country.
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Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Living a lie — Joe Paterno issued a statement yesterday regarding the apparent fact that for 43 years Paterno's PSU program harbored a serial child rapist (Jerry Sandusky joined Paterno's staff in 1966 and was running football camps at PSU for ten-year-old boys as late as 2009). Here it is in full:
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.
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: One year out — One year out: NBC's battleground map, which shows the presidential race is shaping up to be VERY competitive... One year out: new NBC/WSJ poll is released at 6:30 pm ET... Previewing tomorrow's 2011 contests in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi …
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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 …
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 …
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The Agonist and Balloon Juice
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, American Spectator and National Review