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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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A.Killough / CNN:
Gingrich contrasts tea party, ‘Occupy’ protesters — (CNN) - As hundreds of “Occupy” demonstrators across the country take to the streets on the movement's so-called “Day of Action,” GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich came out in full support of cities cracking down on the protesters.
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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.
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.
Andy Newman / City Room:
Clashes and More Than 200 Arrests Mark Protest's ‘Day of Action’ — Two months after it began in New York, Occupy Wall Street carried out a “Day of Action” on Thursday featuring an attempt to delay the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, demonstrations on the subways …
CBS New York:
OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street
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A.Killough / CNN:
Santorum: Republicans ‘ignore some realities’ on economy
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Ann Coulter / Townhall.com:
If Not Romney, Who? If Not Now, When
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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
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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news.iastate.edu:
Cain top choice in new ISU/Gazette/KCRG Poll, but voters have not made up their minds
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM SLIDESHOW: Meet The 2012 GOPers — Herman Cain
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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
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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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Man Charged With Trying to Assassinate Obama
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Joe Mandak / Associated Press:
Idaho man charged with trying to assassinate Obama
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez charged with attempted assassination of Obama
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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 …
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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Jonathan Bernstein / A plain blog about politics:
The NYT Should Be Ashamed of Itself (Again) — Drew Westen is the Worst Thing in the New York Times. Hands down. — Yes, I have a running item complaining about Matt Bai, but as I've said he also, at least when he's reporting, has serious value added: he's actually quite good at the reporting side …
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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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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Democrats and Republicans both want to cut taxes. Deficit hawks don't.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
How we can succeed through supercommittee's ‘failure’
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Secret Service confirms Cain protection — Washington (CNN) - Presidential candidate Herman Cain will receive protection from the United States Secret Service, the agency confirms to CNN. — Cain will be the first candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination …
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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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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren won't sign off on Occupy Harvard — U.S. Senate hopeful and Harvard Law prof Elizabeth Warren, who has claimed she laid the “intellectual foundation” for the Occupy Wall Street movement, is jilting the anti-corporate proteges in her own Ivy League yard, refusing to sign a petition in support of Occupy Harvard.
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Bachmann gives students a 101 on issues, then gets lectured — Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - With the air of a college instructor, Michele Bachmann essentially gave college students a Conservative 101 on the economy, national and foreign affairs and other important issues on Thursday in Iowa.
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