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2:30 PM ET, December 2, 2011

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Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Employment Situation Summary  —  Transmission of material in this release is embargoed USDL-11-1691 until 8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, December 2, 2011  —  Technical information:  —  Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobless Rate Unexpectedly Declines to 8.6%  —  Payroll gains in the U.S. picked up last month and the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest level since March 2009, a decline augmented by the departure of Americans from the labor force.  —  Payrolls climbed 120,000 …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Signs of Hope in Jobs Report; Unemployment Drops to 8.6%  —  The American unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to its lowest level in two and a half years in November, despite the many global crises batting against the economy.  —  The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:   8.6% Unemployment: The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious in the Jobs Report
Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Why Did the Unemployment Rate Drop?
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Jobs picture improves, unemployment drops
Josh Boak / The Politico:
Unemployment rate drops to 8.6 percent
Discussion: CNN and The Political Carnival
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Romney's the One  —  Even though nobody has yet cast a vote in the primaries, Republicans are increasingly resigned to Gov. Mitt Romney's winning the party's presidential nomination.  Every week he gets a few more endorsements from Republican officeholders.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Mitt vs. Newt  —  It's Iowa minus 32 days, and barring yet another resurrection (or event of similar improbability), it's Mitt Romney vs. Newt Gingrich.  In a match race, here's the scorecard:  —  Romney has managed to weather the debates unscathed.  However, the brittleness he showed …
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Gingrich presidential run inspires fear and loathing in top GOP circles  —  Sure, Newt Gingrich is surging in the polls.  But the blunt truth about Newt is that the people who know him best and have worked with him in Washington want him nowhere near the White House or the top of the GOP ticket …
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:   Fundamentally: Newt Gingrich's Favorite Word
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Santorum on Gingrich: ‘Humility is an important thing’
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Nixon's the one!  —  I take myself to be the average Republican primary voter.
Hotline On Call:
Insiders Not Sold on Gingrich
Discussion: GOP 12
David Weigel / Slate:
Absolution for Newt  —  How evangelicals are finding a way to support Gingrich.
Discussion: Iowa Caucuses and The Politico
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Newt Gingrich expands on his support for child labor
Discussion: The Iowa Republican
Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:
Trump to Moderate Republican Debate  —  It's officially a reality television Republican primary now.  —  Donald Trump is pairing up with Newsmax, the conservative magazine and news Web site, to moderate a presidential debate in Des Moines on Dec. 27.  —  “Our readers and the grass roots …
Allison Samuels / The Daily Beast:
Herman Cain's Marriage Shaken by Infidelity Charges  —  As the one-time GOP frontrunner meets up with his wife to discuss his political future, friends say fresh charges of infidelity reopened old wounds in his marriage.  —  In October, Herman Cain was having the time of his life, according to those who know him well.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain highlights female supporters on new website
Discussion: CNN
Roger L Simon / Roger L. Simon:
The Mystery of Herman Cain
WJXT-TV:
Teen stopped at airport for design on purse  —  17-year-old missed flight to Jacksonville after agents inspected gun replica  —  A teenage girl's sense of style got her in trouble at the airport.  —  Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowa Poll: Herman Cain support in Iowa takes nose dive  —  Herman Cain (David Purdy/Des Moines Register file photo)  —  Herman Cain's once-surging popularity in Iowa has plummeted in the wake of an allegation of a 13-year extramarital affair, leaving him at single-digit support with the Iowa caucuses just over a month away.
Washington Post:
Payroll tax break: Extension proposals from both parties fail in Senate  —  The Senate late Thursday rejected competing partisan visions for extending a temporary tax break that benefits virtually every American worker, clearing the way for more serious negotiations over how to cover the cost of the tax cut.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner hopes to avoid GOP Senate fate on payroll taxes
Discussion: The Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Conservatives craft bill to prevent IMF bailout of crumbling eurozone  —  Conservatives say they will try to block the International Monetary Fund from bailing out Italy and Spain, which they say could leave U.S. taxpayers with a huge bill.  —  Republicans on both sides of the Capitol complain …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Killing the Euro  —  Can the euro be saved?  Not long ago …
Discussion: US Politics
Metro:
First-grader accused of sexual harassment  —  A Boston elementary school is investigating a 7-year-old first-grader for sexual harassment after he struck another boy his age in the groin.  But the mother of the accused said her son was fending off the other child, who had choked him in an altercation on a school bus on Nov. 22.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Meathead Vote  —  For liberal baby boomers, it's always 1972.  —  In hilarious fashion, National Journal's Reid Wilson picks up on this week's predominant theme, Democrats and demographics.  He paints a sunny picture of President Obama's re-election prospects based on Ruy Teixeira …
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Other Websites That Ran That ‘Women for Cain’ Stock Photo  —  This morning, Herman Cain's campaign launched a new website called ‘Women for Cain,’ on which women can submit stories of their support for the embattled Republican presidential candidate.  This is the leader image for the site.
Josh Peterson / The Daily Caller:
Under assault for liberal bias, Politico's traffic dives  —  Internet traffic and Web search measurement tools from several sources indicate that despite massive promotion efforts on MSNBC and in other venues, Politico.com is rapidly losing readers, especially outside of Washington, D.C.
 
 
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