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5:55 PM ET, December 1, 2011

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Florida shows perils of Gingrich for GOP — If the Newt surge persists over the next few months the biggest winner is going to be Barack Obama. We can see that pretty clearly in our newest Florida poll. — If Mitt Romney's the Republican nominee, Obama's in a lot of trouble in the Sunshine State.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, GOP 12, Indecision Forever, Hot Air and Campaign 2012

ABCNEWS:

Gingrich Tells ABC News: 'I'm Going to Be The Nominee' — WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — A very confident New Gingrich asserted to ABC News Thursday afternoon that he will be the Republican presidential nominee. — “I'm going to be the nominee,” the former Speaker told ABC News.

Discussion: The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Hot Air, MyFox Boston and Guardian

Nmcalvanah / Florida Democracy 2012:

Christie: Gingrich Has Never Run Anything — With Newt Gingrich's popularity growing in Florida, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came to South Florida today to campaign for Mitt Romney and dismissed the former House speaker as the “newest flavor of the two weeks.”

Discussion: Washington Wire, Opinion L.A. and Los Angeles Times

Dylan Byers / Ben Smith's Blog:

Fox's temptation: Newt — As Newtmentum continues to build, some members of Washington's chattering class are beginning to wonder whether Fox News chairman Roger Ailes might throw his network's weight behind former contributor Gingrich — a move that would deal a powerful blow to Mitt Romney …

Discussion: Washington Post and Business Insider

Reid J. Epstein / The Politico:

Mitt Romney preps Newt Gingrich attack — Mitt Romney's campaign advisers insist they're no more scared of Newt Gingrich than the candidates who've surged before — but they're already rolling out a playbook that show they know the latest alarm isn't a drill.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS, Washington Post, News Desk, The Atlantic Online, Indecision Forever, New York Times, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and Prairie Weather

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Huntsman offers a ‘Mittstant Replay’

Discussion: Swampland and CNN

Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Gingrich Instructs Team Not to Attack Romney

Discussion: GOP 12, Pat Dollard, Nice Deb and Hot Air

O.Kay Henderson:
Harkin: Gingrich as GOP nominee would be “heaven sent” (audio)

Discussion: The Hill

Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Gingrich Says He Was Acting as a Citizen, Not a Lobbyist

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Loyal Opposition, Rod Dreher, LobbyComply, PERRspectives, The New Republic and msnbc.com

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gingrich's hand ‘always six inches from the self-destruct button’

Discussion: Washington Post, msnbc.com, GOP 12 and National Review

Joshua Altman / Ballot Box:
Santorum attacks Gingrich, calls himself 'solid, consistent conservative"

Discussion: CNN

The Right Scoop:
Bret Baier: Romney told me my questions were “uncalled for”

Discussion: Hot Air, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Erick's blog, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Los Angeles Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Dish, GOP 12, The PJ Tatler and Talking Points Memo

Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:

How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street — ORLANDO, Fla. — The Republican Governor's Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, Los Angeles Times, Taylor Marsh, Wonkette, Daily Kos, True Blue Liberal, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gawker, Booman Tribune, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Little Green Footballs, The Impolitic, The Mahablog, Corrente and Business Insider

Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Top GOP Strategist Admits He's ‘Scared’ Of Occupy Wall Street Because It's ‘Having An Impact’

Discussion: OccupyWallSt News, Booman Tribune and Ben Smith's Blog

John DiStaso / unionleader.com:

Cain: Wife didn't know about friendship, ‘financial assistance’ to Ginger White — MANCHESTER - Herman Cain acknowledged Thursday that he repeatedly gave Ginger White money to help her with “month-to-month bills and expenses” without telling his wife. — In fact, the embattled presidential candidate …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, New York Times and Iowa Caucuses

Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Cain accuser's phone records sought — At least 70 messages reportedly exchanged recently between White, Cain cellphones — Just days before coming forward with allegations of a 13-year affair with Herman Cain, Ginger White was repeatedly having contact with the presidential candidate, according to her cellphone records.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, ABCNEWS, Roger Ailes, Nice Deb, Mad Kane's Political Madness, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Other McCain

Andy Stern / Wall Street Journal:

China's Superior Economic Model — The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash heap of history. — Andy Grove, the founder and chairman of Intel, provocatively wrote in Businessweek last year that, “Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated …

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, Sky Dancing, The Enterprise Blog, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, RedState, americanthinker.com, The Lonely Conservative, American Spectator, Ed Driscoll and Maggie's Farm

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Islamists Say They Have Mandate in Egypt Voting — CAIRO — Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt's first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the most significant step yet …

Russell Berman / The Hill:

Boehner calls on Obama to help Congress alter automatic cuts — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday called on President Obama to intercede in the growing push to change the automatic spending cuts to military and domestic programs triggered by the congressional supercommittee's failure to strike a deficit-reduction deal.

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Boehner On Whether Letting The Payroll Tax Cut Expire Hurts The Economy: 'I'm Not An Economist'

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Bloomberg

Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Sen. Susan Collins: Tax The Rich To Fund Payroll Tax Cut For Workers

Discussion: Bangor Daily News, Crooks and Liars, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, Daily Kos, The Enterprise Blog, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and The Politico

Jason Noble / Iowa Caucuses:

Michele Bachmann debates same-sex rights with high-school students in Waverly — Waverly, Ia. - Amidst a breezy appearance before an enthusiastic crowd at pizza restaurant here, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann debated two high school students over whether civil rights included the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Discussion: Business Insider, pandagon.net, ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and Joe. My. God.

Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay:
Iowa Students Challenge Michele Bachmann on Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Issues: VIDEO

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Little Green Footballs

Nick Hanauer / Bloomberg:

Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer — It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop. — Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong.

Discussion: Business Insider, Daily Kos, Political Mojo, ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:

Rick Perry 2012 video: 'I'm Rick Perry and...what's that line again?' — Rick Perry is heading to Jay Leno's couch tonight, and he's making the most of it - airing this campaign ad in Iowa, in which he takes on his own “oops” moment from the CNBC debate in which he couldn't remember the third agency he'd cut …

Discussion: CNN, msnbc.com, Sister Toldjah, GOP 12, The Caucus and Business Insider

Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:

New Hampshire GOP Speaker Discourages Students From Voting Because They'll Vote ‘Liberal’ — New Hampshire Speaker William O'Brien (R) — As ThinkProgress has been reporting, the slew of unnecessary voter ID laws passed by Republicans in many states this year are a transparent attempt …

Emily Schultheis / The Politico: Students hit by voter ID restrictions

Fergus Cullen / New Hampshire Journal:

Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann Fail to File Full Slates of NH Delegates — As recently as two weeks ago, the Gingrich campaign was apparently unable to name 40 New Hampshire supporters of his presidential campaign. — Candidates needed to file their slates of 20 delegates to the National Convention …

Discussion: The Hill, The Politico, CNN, Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times, The Caucus and msnbc.com

Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Wire: Gingrich's N.H. Filing: Messy

Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:

Barack Obama and blue-collar Pennsylvania voters : Take 2 — SCRANTON, Pa. — They were never a natural fit. — President Barack Obama lost white working-class voters in this Rust Belt state during the 2008 Democratic primary, after describing them as bitter people who “cling” to God and guns.

Discussion: Pirate's Cove, Taylor Marsh and CANNONFIRE

Sara Murray / Washington Wire:
Study: Racial Bias Cost Obama 3 to 5 Points in 2008 Election

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Byron Tau / The Politico:

Group calls for Bush arrest — Amnesty International is calling for the arrest of former President George W. Bush while he is travelling overseas in Africa. — The human rights group issued a statement Thursday calling for the governments of Ethiopia, Tanzania or Zambia to take the former president into custody.

Discussion: Agence France Presse and ThinkProgress

Morgen / Verum Serum:

Unearthed: Gingrich Makes the Case for GSE's on Freddie Mac's Web Site in 2007/2008 — I'm a little late with this - it's been at least a couple of weeks since Bloomberg broke the story that Newt Gingrich received $1.6 million in consulting fees from Freddie Mac over a decade or so.

Discussion: judicialwatch.org, The Other McCain, Campaign 2012, The Lonely Conservative, Ed Driscoll, The Right Scoop and National Review

Pew Hispanic Center:

Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of Parenthood — OVERVIEW — Nearly two-thirds of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants in the United States have lived in this country for at least 10 years and nearly half are parents of minor children …

Discussion: The Caucus, Political Mojo, Reuters and Hit & Run

Bloomberg:

Cheapest Primary in a Decade Defies Campaign Spending Prediction — Even as experts predict that the 2012 presidential race will be the most expensive in U.S. history, a funny thing is happening on the way to the Republican nomination: It's becoming one of the cheapest primaries in a more than a decade.

Discussion: Don Surber, Yahoo! News, ABCNEWS, The Impolitic, The Political Carnival, Althouse and USA Today

David Weigel / Slate:

Pawlenty Explains his Campaign-Ending “Obamneycare” Whiff … - Gingrich Is the Only Candidate Who Talks About How He'd Govern the Country. Good for Him. - The Senate's Gruesome Decision To Allow the Military To Detain Citizens Without a Trial Forever - The Artist Is Slight …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:

A Banker Speaks, With Regret — If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and other bankers are mostly responsible for the country's housing mess.