ESPN yanks Hank Williams for comparing Obama to Hitler  —  Hank Williams Jr., the voice famous for asking millions of viewers if they're ready for some football, has been pulled from Monday's broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News this morning.

Fla poll: Romney 28%, Cain 24, Gingrich 10, Perry 9  —  Debates matter.  So did Florida's straw poll.  Just ask two guys: Herman Cain and Rick Perry.  —  Cain is now running in second place in Florida now that his support surged nearly 19 percentage points after last month's Republican Party …

Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video]  —  Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Foxnews.com (as of this writing) …

Majority Expects Obama to Lose Re-Election  —  A majority of Americans expect Barack Obama to be a one-term president, an assessment on which, in past elections, the public more often has been right than wrong.  —  Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama …

Poll: 7 in 10 say Obama has not helped economy  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto  —  A new CBS News poll finds that nearly seven in 10 Americans believe President Obama has not made real progress in fixing the economy.

E-Mails Show Obama Was Warned; Bitter OMB, DOE Divide Over Solyndra  —  President Obama tours Solyndra's California headquarters in 2010 to tout investment in renewable energy.  New emails show the White House was warned before the visit about Solyndra's long-term viability …

Ken Burns on PBS Funding, Being a “Yellow-Dog Democrat,” & Missing Walter Cronkite  —  “In a perfect world,” says legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, “we'd want government support [for the arts] and a lot more of it.”  —  Burns' new PBS documentary, Prohibition, was made with his longtime collaborator Lynn Novick …

Bloomberg Whiffs, Part 1  —  Last Friday, I wrote about a Bloomberg Markets story on Koch Industries which at that time was still in preparation.  According to multiple reports, the story was expected to focus on claims that a European Koch subsidiary had business transactions in Iran …

Senate votes 79-19 to move bill punishing China on currency  —  The Senate voted Monday to advance legislation pressuring the Chinese government to stop undervaluing its currency, a practice most economists agree is giving the country an unfair trade advantage and is costing the U.S. jobs.

After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town  —  ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — The vanishing began Wednesday night, the most frightened families packing up their cars as soon as they heard the news.  —  They left behind mobile homes, sold fully furnished for a thousand dollars or even less.

Fund-Raiser Offers Clues on Governor's Intentions  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has kept the political world in suspense for weeks over his presidential intentions, told prominent California fund-raisers and donors as recently as last Wednesday he had no plans to seek the White House.

Lobbyists in on ‘super’ secrets  —  “Information is slowly coming out, but there hasn't been a lot of progress,” Bonjean said.  —  The intense press coverage on supercommittee members' fundraising has also contributed to the clampdown.  —  Several of the panel's lawmakers have moved to slow …