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11:20 AM ET, October 11, 2011

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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences  —  Romney and Cain closely matched near 20%, with Perry at 15%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans' support for Herman Cain has surged to 18%, their support for Rick Perry has sagged to 15%, and their support for Mitt Romney remains relatively stable at 20%.
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Can Herman Cain Keep Up?  (The Note)  —  HANOVER, N.H. — Oh, Herman, we hardly know you.  —  That's about to change starting with tonight's presidential debate in New Hampshire where the bright light of scrutiny will be focused on a surging Herman Cain.  Within the last day the former …
Discussion: Roll Call and The Daily Caller
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Do-or-die time for Perry  —  Do-or-die time for Perry at tonight's GOP debate, which takes place at 8:00 pm ET in NH... New NBC News-Marist polls show Romney leading in Iowa (barely) and in New Hampshire (by a wide margin)... The polls also find that Obama is struggling in both states …
Jamelle Bouie / TAPPED:
Rick Perry Still Has a Chance
Hollywoodland / Big Hollywood:
Belafonte on Herman Cain: ‘Totally False’ and ‘A Bad Apple’
Discussion: The Politico and GOP 12
Herman Cain / KWTX-TV:
God Told Me To Run
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney Suggests Herman Cain May Not Be Ready For The Oval Office
Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters  —  Conservative activists have created a Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” that's meant to be a counterpunch to the viral “We are the 99 percent” site that's become a prominent symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes  —  The Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to get in the face of some of New York's richest tycoons on Tuesday.  —  A “Millionaires March” will visit the homes - or, more realistically …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems aggressively counter Republican attacks on anti-Wall Street protests
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
AHEM: Wall Street Protester Says He's Getting Paid To Protest
George Stephanopoulos / ABCNEWS:
Obama Stands Generally on the Side of Wall Street Protestors
Pam Martens / CounterPunch:
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
Harry M. Reid / Washington Post:
Trying to restore Senate comity  —  Democrats have one overriding objective this Congress: to create jobs and get our economy back on track.  But our Republican colleagues are so dead set on preventing Democrats from passing job-creating legislation that they have been willing to abuse …
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Democrats scramble to save face on President Obama's jobs bill  —  Democratic leaders in the Senate are scrambling to avoid defections on President Obama's jobs package, which appears headed for defeat on Tuesday.  —  A lack of Democratic unity on the president's bill would be embarrassing …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama campaign memo warns Congress on jobs bill votes
Discussion: ABCNEWS
The Hill:
For President Obama, it's business vs. base
Discussion: Prairie Weather
David R. Henderson / Wall Street Journal:
A Nobel for Non-Keynesians  —  People's expectations about government policy make it difficult for officials to affect the economy in the ways they intend to.  —  On Monday the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics: Thomas J. Sargent of New York University …
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Investor's Business Daily:
A Pair Of (Nobel) Aces
Steve H. Hanke / Cato @ Liberty:
Sargent's Sharp Pencil
Discussion: Marginal Revolution
Robert Costa / National Review:
Behind Bachmann's Slide  —  On August 13, as dusk settled upon Iowa State University, Michele Bachmann hopped onto a makeshift stepstool beside her bus.  Her supporters crowded close, pressing against a flimsy rope.  Bachmann, clad in an ivory-colored suit and pearls, raised both arms.
Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
In hindsight, Pawlenty regrets quick race pullout  —  ST. PAUL, Minn.—Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he might have stayed in the Republican presidential race longer had he known it would be this volatile.  —  Pawlenty reflected on his decision to drop out after his official state portrait was unveiled Monday night.
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Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Pawlenty, portrait, both emerge into limelight
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Boston Globe:
Boston police move in on protesters on Greenway, scores arrested  —  Boston police moved in and began arresting scores of Occupy Boston protesters who refused to leave a large part of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway early this morning.  —  At 1:20 a.m., the first riot police officers lined up on Atlantic Avenue.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
The not-so-super committee  —  In news that should surprise absolutely no one, it appears the Murray/Hensarling super-committee isn't even close to reaching any kind of deal. … Remember all of those predictions that said the super-committee would fail because Republicans would never …
Bill Daley / NBC Chicago:
One-On-One With Rahm's Replacement  —  He's the White House Chief of Staff — just steps from the Oval Office, brought in as the successful banker and attorney to give the Obama team a different image.  —  Bill Daley is also best friends with the man who held the pressure cooker White House job before him, Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Individualists In The Marine Corps  —  Erick Erickson and Josh Trevino are, I'm told, the geniuses behind the dimwitted concept of countering the 99 Percent Movement with an effort to divide the country between the 53 percent of the population that has net federal income tax liability …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Calif. Governor Veto Allows Warrantless Cellphone Searches  —  California Gov. Jerry Brown is vetoing legislation requiring police to obtain a court warrant to search the mobile phones of suspects at the time of any arrest.  —  The Sunday veto means that when police arrest anybody in the Golden State …
 
 
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Obama health-care law modeled on Romney plan
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Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department
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Suzanna Andrews / Vanity Fair:
The Woman Who Knew Too Much  —  Millions of Americans hoped …
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SNL Spoofs the Morning Show Parody Called Fox & Friends
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Wisconsin Democrats Start Drive to Recall Governor
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Millions to lose unemployment benefits if Congress doesn't act
Sean Coughlan / BBC:
UK seeing a big rise in poverty, says IFS
Discussion: Guardian
Chuck Neubauer / Washington Times:
Pelosi's disclosure belated in husband's land deal
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The legacy of Steve Jobs
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