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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Gingrich takes the lead — Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in PPP's national polling. He's at 28% to 25% for Herman Cain and 18% for Mitt Romney. The rest of the Republican field is increasingly looking like a bunch of also rans: Rick Perry is at 6%, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5% …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Gingrich soars, Cain drops — Washington (CNN) - A new national survey of Republicans indicates that it's basically all tied up between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, with Gingrich on the rise and businessman Herman Cain falling due …
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Reid Wilson / 2012 Decoded:
New Iowa Poll: The Gingrich Surge
New Iowa Poll: The Gingrich Surge
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Iowa numbers: Cain, Gingrich, Romney on top
Iowa numbers: Cain, Gingrich, Romney on top
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Feel the Newt-mentum
Feel the Newt-mentum
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Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Five Reasons Rick Perry Will Survive...For Now
Five Reasons Rick Perry Will Survive...For Now
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Mediaite and PolitickerNY
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court sets 5 1/2-hour hearing on health care (FINAL) — FINAL UPDATE at 11:09 a.m. A separate post, coming shortly, will provide further analysis of the grants. (It is posted above this.) — Setting the stage for a historic constitutional confrontation over federal power …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging Health Law — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, President Obama's signature legislative achievement. The development set the stage for oral arguments by March and a decision in late June …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC — NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. — The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus …
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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Ex-boyfriend of Cain accuser backs her story — Dr. Victor Zuckerman said today he backs ex-girlfriend Sharon Bialek's allegation that Herman Cain “touched her in an inappropriate manner.” — Zuckerman, a pediatrician, came forward after Cain last week denied knowing Bialek.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Ex-boyfriend of Cain accuser to tell his story at press conference
Ex-boyfriend of Cain accuser to tell his story at press conference
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Former boyfriend of Cain accuser to come forward Monday
Former boyfriend of Cain accuser to come forward Monday
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New York Post:
Ex-cop boots OWS heckler from congressman's swearing-in — Meet New York's newest hero. — Kevin Hiltunen, a former NYPD officer, yesterday grabbed an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator by the collar and dragged him out of a Queens school where he'd been heckling US Rep. Bob Turner at the congressman's swearing-in ceremony.
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Dominic Holden / The Stranger …:
Occupy Seattle Disrupts Pro-Occupy Wall Street Forum, Drives Away Supporters
Occupy Seattle Disrupts Pro-Occupy Wall Street Forum, Drives Away Supporters
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Rod Dreher, Outside the Beltway, Questions and Observations and Indecision Forever
GQ:
A Pizza Party with Herman Cain — He's the funniest, most outrageous guy on the GOP stage. And he's got a simple plan to save America. Yes, that plan is more than a little nutty, and yes, his charm has taken a big hit lately. But have you met his competition?
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain: Majority of US Muslims share extremist views
Cain: Majority of US Muslims share extremist views
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Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway and Weasel Zippers
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ Hit On Boehner, Pelosi Falls Short … 60 Minutes , Eric Cantor , John Boehner , Nancy Pelosi , Pelosi , Video , Boehner , Political Intelligence , Politics News — WASHINGTON — A “60 Minutes” investigation of stock trading by members of Congress singled …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Spencer Bachus, Rogue Trader
Spencer Bachus, Rogue Trader
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
‘60 Minutes’ on ‘honest graft’
‘60 Minutes’ on ‘honest graft’
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Quan's top legal adviser resigns over raid — (11-14) 08:51 PST OAKLAND — Mayor Jean Quan's chief legal adviser resigned early this morning after what he called a “tragically unnecessary” police raid of the Occupy Oakland camp. — Dan Siegel, a civil rights attorney and one of Oakland's …
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FRBSF:
Future Recession Risks: An Update … Gathering storms across the Atlantic threaten a U.S. economy not yet recovered from the last recession. The September Economic Outlook from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) indicates that growth prospects have significantly dimmed …
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Ann Saphir / Reuters:
Chance of 2012 U.S. recession tops 50 percent: Fed paper
Chance of 2012 U.S. recession tops 50 percent: Fed paper
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun — “Talkin' about my generation”: the Who song once expressed the hope and self confidence of the Baby Boomers as they reached biological if not emotional maturity. It was an attack on the older generation, a defense of the young …
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Sean Newell / Deadspin:
Judge Who Set Unsecured Bail For Jerry Sandusky Is A Second Mile Volunteer [UPDATE]
Judge Who Set Unsecured Bail For Jerry Sandusky Is A Second Mile Volunteer [UPDATE]
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Michael Klopman / The Huffington Post:
Jerry Sandusky Interview: Ex-Penn State Coach Talks About Children To NBC In 1987 (VIDEO)
Jerry Sandusky Interview: Ex-Penn State Coach Talks About Children To NBC In 1987 (VIDEO)
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DamianPenny.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and msnbc.com
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
The Manager In Chief — I have this sense that when history looks back on 2009-2010 in American political history, it's going to come away with the conclusion that a larger-than-currently-understood share of the problems had to do with poor handling of routine managerial issues.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes — WASHINGTON — With a little over a week left to reach a deal, members of the Congressional deficit reduction panel are looking for an escape hatch that would let them strike an accord on revenue levels but delay until next year tough decisions about exactly how to raise taxes.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert? (Updated) — This is crazy. New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert. The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes.
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Capitol Gains — Are members of Congress guilty of insider trading—and does it matter? — IN 1995, WHEN Alan Ziobrowski was an associate professor of finance at Lander University, in South Carolina, he found himself at home one night watching “one of those 60 Minutes-type shows.”
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A candidate can only fake it for so long — There was a BBC reality show I used to find interesting called, “Faking It.” The show would have someone take a crash course in a professional field that is not their own, help them try to master it, and then try to fool a panel of experts.
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American Prospect and CNN
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Congress' Job Approval Entrenched at Record Low of 13% — Congressional rating similar among Republicans, independents, and Democrats — PRINCETON, NJ — Congressional job approval remains at 13% in November, identical to October and tying the all-time Gallup low on this measure.
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