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12:45 PM ET, October 13, 2011

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The Politico:
Tea party goes after Occupy Wall Street  —  The tea party isn't about to make room for the new protesters on the block.  —  Big tea party groups have launched an attack against the Occupy Wall Street protests, challenging the line that the anti-corporate uprising is the “the tea party of the left.”
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Corky Siemaszko / NY Daily News:
Lech Walesa, former Polish president, to visit New York in support of Occupy Wall Street  —  Solidarity hero Lech Walesa is flying to New York to show his support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters.  —  “How could I not respond,” Walesa told a Polish newspaper Wednesday.
Bloomberg:
Buffett's Son Defends Occupy Wall Street  —  Howard Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) director and son of Chairman Warren Buffett, said Wall Street protesters were provoked by abuses from corporations amid a widening disparity between rich and poor.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Republicans increasingly see Mitt Romney as the ‘inevitable candidate’  —  NASHUA, N.H. — Buoyed by a series of strong debate performances, Mitt Romney is suddenly attracting new support from major donors and elected officials, some of whom had resisted his previous entreaties …
Alex Altman / Time:
TIME Poll: Obama Leads Head-to-Head Match-Ups with Republican Rivals  —  President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Forum on American Latino Heritage in Washington, Oct. 12, 2011.  —  Despite sweeping pessimism about the nation's fortunes and his own sliding approval ratings …
Reuters:
Who's behind the Wall St. protests?  —  (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the group that started it all may have benefited indirectly from the largesse of one of the world's richest men.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum  —  * Americans favor Occupy Wall Street far more than Tea Party: Despite nonstop GOP and conservative disparagement of the Wall Street protests, the most detailed polling yet on Occupy Wall Street suggests that the public holds a broadly favorable view of the movement — and, crucially, the positions it holds.
Wall Street Journal:
Cain Vaults to Lead in Poll
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
CHART: Americans Support Occupy Wall Street, Oppose Tea Party
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Cain now leads GOP pack
David W. Chen / New York Times:
Protesters Told to Vacate Park, for Its Cleaning
Nicholas Ballasy / The Daily Caller:
Jackson, Jr: Obama should ‘declare a national emergency,’ add jobs with ‘extra-constitutional’ action  —  Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that congressional opposition to the American Jobs Act is akin to the Confederate “states in rebellion.”
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Senate GOP unveils its jobs agenda
Discussion: ThinkProgress, TPMDC and Pirate's Cove
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: Republican senators only care about their own jobs
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Obama campaign reports raising $70 million in third quarter  —  President Obama's reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee reported Thursday raising $70 million in the third quarter.  —  The campaign and the DNC reported that, combined, 606,027 people donated to the campaign …
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama Surges Past Money-Making Goal
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
The Caucus:
Obama Raises More Than $42 Million for Campaign
Associated Press:
Obama Raises More Than $70 Million
Ben Forer / ABCNEWS:
9-9-9 Plan Would Almost Double Taxes on Middle Class  —  Herman Cain is running on three numbers: 9-9-9.  —  “Nine percent corporate business flat tax, nine percent income flat tax and a nine percent national sales tax,” he said, explaining the plan once again during Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh and Hot Air
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Alex Katz / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown web message mirrors 2002 Elizabeth Dole speech  —  WASHINGTON - A Democratic group has unearthed a bit of inspirational autobiography on Senator Scott Brown's official website that was lifted verbatim from a 2002 campaign speech by Elizabeth Dole.
James Dao / New York Times:
Denied Veterans Benefits Over Same-Sex Marriage, Ex-Sailor Challenges Law  —  In what experts say is the first case of its kind, a disabled Navy veteran from Connecticut is challenging the constitutionality of two federal laws that define marriage as being between opposite-sex partners …
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
A Campaign Windfall for 4 Republicans Who Voted for Same-Sex Marriage
Discussion: Gothamist
John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies  —  A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.
Mickey Edwards / The Atlantic Online:
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans  —  An insider's six-step plan to fix Congress  —  ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to “take back” their country.  Just as they had done in 2008.  And 2006.  And repeatedly for decades …
Discussion: The Politico
Jason Clayworth / Iowa Caucuses:
Five questions for Rick Perry  —  Perry spoke to a large crowd at the Des Moines Register Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair last month.  (Justin Hayworth/The Des Moines Register)  —  1. You've been criticized over the racial slur that a rock once bore outside the hunting camp you leased …
Discussion: Washington Post and GOP 12
Paul Krugman:
I Am Not Your Mirror Image  —  Russ Roberts tries to debunk my explanation of the reasons to believe in a broadly Keynesian view of the world — and reveals more than he intended.  —  First, a few points.  Roberts treats my statement that we have a lot of evidence on the effects of monetary policy …
Tony Romm / The Politico:
New tax bill to watch - Splitsville for Yahoo, U.S. Chamber - Fed jobs site revamp gets panned - CTIA dispatch: USF, spectrum and more from San Diego - Barton, Frank team up on online gambling  —  With help from Michelle Quinn, Kim Hart, David Saleh Rauf and Eliza Krigman
Discussion: ThinkProgress and US Politics
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Raising Eyebrows  —  IT wasn't quite the slip-up (or slip-down, as it were) most people expect during a presidential campaign, but whatever happened to Ron Paul's eyebrows at Tuesday's night debate certainly caught some viewers' attention.  —  For those of you not yet riveted by the Republican race …
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to ease housing-market pressures  —  View Photo Gallery — Demolition: Four years into this city's housing crisis, it has often become cheaper for banks to give away a home and pay to demolish it than continue to hold on.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Corrente
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Ben Nelson's Ads May Break New Ground  —  WASHINGTON — A new series of political advertisements on behalf of an embattled Nebraska senator could open the door to a flood of similar ads financed by outside groups and even businesses working directly with political candidates — a sharp departure from past practice.
Discussion: Hotline On Call
 
 
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