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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Herman Cain Cancels Interview After Making Unusual Requests [UPDATE] … 2012 Election , Herman Cain , Newspapers , Video , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Hermain Cain 2012 , The Backstory , Union Leader , Media News — UPDATE: The Cain campaign has now canceled its interview with the Union Leader …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Herman Cain Meltdown — The hits keep on coming for the businessman and onetime GOP front-runner, who seems determined to go down in flames — The Herman Cain implosion is under way. — Once the Republican front-runner, Cain now seems to be self-destructing before our very eyes.
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Los Angeles Times
news.iastate.edu:
Cain top choice in new ISU/Gazette/KCRG Poll, but voters have not made up their minds — AMES, Iowa — With fewer than two months before the Iowa Caucuses, a new Iowa State University/Gazette/KCRG poll of 1,256 registered Iowa voters finds Herman Cain leading Republican presidential candidates …
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KCRG-TV, Washington Post, Business Insider, Taegan Goddard's … and The Brody File
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain: ‘Who knows every detail of every country on the planet?’ — That's the rhetorical question Herman Cain asked a crowd in Nashua this afternoon, POLITICO's Reid Epstein emails. — Cain trotted out the line in a riff about his now-infamous Libya answer.
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM SLIDESHOW: Meet The 2012 GOPers — Herman Cain
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Washington Monthly, The Stranger …, Indecision Forever, Talking Points Memo and The Hill
John DiStaso / unionleader.com:
Primary Status: Cain a ‘no-show’ for NH Union Leader interview
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Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, The Political Carnival, Pundit & Pundette and The Other McCain
Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:
Herman Cain snubs Union Leader in N.H.
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The Hill and Outside the Beltway
Laura Weisman / Rick Perry 2012 Campaign for President:
Cain ducks N.H. interview, says we need ‘a leader, not a reader’
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Outside the Beltway
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Obama never secretly killed the public option. It's a myth. — Did Obama secretly kill the public option? — The question is still an important one for many liberals. The claim lives on to this day, and is still seen as perhaps the clearest evidence from Obama's first term …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Man Charged With Trying to Assassinate Obama — WASHINGTON — Federal authorities charged a 21-year-old Idaho man on Thursday with trying to assassinate President Obama. They said he had told friends that he believed the president was “the Antichrist” and that he “needed to kill him,” according to a complaint filed in federal court.
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John / Verum Serum:
Occupy San Diego Has A Moment of Solidarity for the White House Shooter...Wait, What? — Click here to view the embedded video. — I understand a moment of silence for the White House, but why would you offer a moment of solidarity, i.e. unity, with the shooter?
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RedState, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler and Sister Toldjah
Joe Mandak / Associated Press:
Idaho man charged with trying to assassinate Obama
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THEROOT.COM, The Atlantic Online, The Political Carnival and Washington Post
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez charged with attempted assassination of Obama
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Runnin' Scared and The Daily What
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Man charged with trying to assassinate President Obama
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The Hill
Jonathan Bernstein / A plain blog about politics:
The NYT Should Be Ashamed of Itself (Again)
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Washington Monthly, American Prospect and Matt Glassman
Rasmussen Reports:
Iowa: Gingrich 32%, Romney 19%, Cain 13% — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has already picked up steam among Republican primary voters nationwide, and now he jumps to the front of the GOP pack among caucus-goers in Iowa. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey …
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Richard S. Dunham / Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …:
Perry funds dry up after gaffes and dip in polls — 2,994 — WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign fundraising has gone into a tailspin as a result of poor debate performances and plunging poll numbers, jeopardizing his position as the best-funded Republican presidential candidate of 2012.
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Ann Coulter / Townhall.com:
If Not Romney, Who? If Not Now, When
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The Politico:
Obama's ‘lazy’ remark catches fire — A video clip of President Barack Obama calling America “a little bit lazy” is quickly becoming a focus of Republican campaigns, and GOP operatives say it will get plenty of play not only on the presidential battlefield but also in down-ballot congressional races.
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A.Killough / CNN:
Santorum: Republicans ‘ignore some realities’ on economy
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
DNC fights back: Obama never called Americans ‘lazy’
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The Gateway Pundit
Metro:
Before leaving governor's office in 2006, Mitt Romney's staff eliminated e-mail records — Ex-governor's aides say they did nothing wrong — Just before Mitt Romney left the Massachusetts governor's office and first ran for president, 11 of his top aides purchased their state-issued computer hard drives …
Carlos Lozano / L.A. NOW:
Prop. 8 sponsors are legally entitled to defend measure, court rules — The California Supreme Court decided Thursday that the sponsors of Proposition 8 and other ballot measures are entitled to defend them in court when the state refuses to do so, a ruling likely to spur federal courts …
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G-A-Y / Good As You:
Read: California Supremes back proponents' right to defend
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ThinkProgress, Poliglot, Truth Wins Out and Joe. My. God.
New York Post:
Protesters cause mayhem across city ahead of B'klyn Bridge march, 177 arrested — Anti-Wall Street protesters clashed with cops throughout the day as they continued the mayhem by mounting an afternoon assault on New Yorkers that included swarming subway stations and the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Protesters and Officers Clash Near Wall Street and in Zuccotti Park
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
GOP supercommittee members' tax plan gives party an identity crisis — Growing Republican support for raising taxes to help reduce the deficit has prompted a GOP identity crisis, sparking a clash within the party over whether to abandon its bedrock anti-tax doctrine.
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Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Baseline Games — Here's the thing you should keep in mind about the long-term deficit.
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Washington Post and Brad DeLong
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
CBO on the Stimulus: “A net negative effect on the growth of GDP over 10 years.” — NRO's Andrew Stiles flags this exchange from Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf's testimony before the Senate Budget Committee ealier this week: — The quote that matters starts around 1:25 …
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Chuck Marr / Off the Charts Blog:
CBO Ranks “Repatriation Holiday” Dead Last in Job Creation
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National Review, Newshoggers.com and Political Mojo
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Video: ‘Foggy foreign policy’ and Herman Cain's Cuba-policy crickets moment — Returning to the state that made him a rising star seven weeks ago, Herman Cain stumps this morning in South Florida as a different candidate, nagged by questions about his foreign-policy expertise and his handling of sexual-harassment allegations.
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Hot Air, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign … and National Review
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A.Killough / CNN:
Cain: How do you say that in ‘Cuban?’
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The Stranger … and Washington Wire
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Bachus agrees to hold hearing on bill to prevent insider trading by lawmakers — House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) announced Thursday that his panel would be considering legislation to prohibit lawmakers from investing based on private information.
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