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Susan Saulny / New York Times:
As Cain Promotes His Management Skills, Ex-Aides Tell of Campaign in Chaos — If Herman Cain feels his management skills are up to any challenge, some of his former staff members think he should have started with the disorder in his own campaign. — Mr. Cain has hardly shown up in New Hampshire …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: GOP Primary Voters Get on the Cain Train — Herman Cain takes the lead in the Republican presidential nomination contest as GOP voters continue to deny Mitt Romney clear front-runner status. — A Fox News poll released Wednesday shows support for Cain has quadrupled among GOP primary voters since late August.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Herman Cain, Outlier — Herman Cain, the Georgia businessman who has never held elected office, is tied for the lead in national polls of Republican voters — or perhaps even slightly ahead of Mitt Romney, as he was in Tuesday night's New York Times/CBS News poll.
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The Spectacle Blog, Fox News, Balloon Juice, Indecision Forever, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
What if Perry Skips the Debates?
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Poll: Romney at or tied for top spot in first 4 states to vote
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ABCNEWS, Washington Examiner, Business Insider, Hot Air, Addicting Info, Outside the Beltway, The Hill and Trail Blazers Blog
A.Killough / CNN:
Poll: Romney & Cain on top in Arizona
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The Politico, Daily Kos, Nice Deb, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
New York Post:
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders — The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they're angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
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JammieWearingFool, Don Surber, Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit
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Kerry Wills / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protester who was pepper-sprayed finds romance with fellow demonstrator — Occupy Wall Street protester Kaylee Dedrick is still furious over getting pepper-sprayed by a cop - but the blinding sting wasn't all bad. — It sparked a romance with a fellow protester who came to her aid.
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Nation Now, Gothamist and JammieWearingFool
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2011 (advance estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011 …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats are increasingly calling it a ‘Republican Congress’ — President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. — Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase …
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Alex Leary / St. Petersburg Times:
Adviser: Connie Mack to enter U.S. Senate race — U.S. Rep. Connie Mack unexpectedly signaled late Wednesday that he will enter the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, apparently convinced other candidates cannot defeat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. — “He's getting in the race,” adviser David James said in an e-mail.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Democrats seek up to $3 trillion savings
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Firedoglake, PJ Media, Campaign 2012 and Balloon Juice
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Supercommittee Dems push for stimulus to be part of deficit deal
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Washington Monthly, Pirate's Cove, Washington Post, New York Times, The Politico, Weasel Zippers and National Review
San Francisco Chronicle:
Iraq vet in critical condition after Oakland protest — (10-26) 17:29 PDT OAKLAND — Protesters inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement plan to rally again in downtown Oakland at 6 p.m. tonight, with some saying they will try to retake the encampment outside City Hall that police dismantled early Tuesday.
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Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Scott Olsen injuries prompt review as Occupy Oakland protests continue
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ThinkProgress, CNN, insideBayArea, Oakland North, US Politics, Boing Boing and Balloon Juice
Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Occupy Oakland: Iraq war veteran in critical condition after police clashes
Jay Finneburgh / Indybay newswire:
Protester injured by Police projectile at Occupy Oakland march at city hall 10.25.11
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Guardian, Booman Tribune, Minnesota Independent and Telegraph
Valentina Pop / EUobserver.com:
Merkel wants ‘permanent’ supervision of Greece, warns of war — Merkel outlines steps to ‘stability union’ - EU officials welcome news of Gaddafi's death - EU states to speed up austerity, embrace ‘limited’ treaty change — BRUSSELS - Peace should not be taken for granted if the euro fails …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Crony Capitalism Comes Home — Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really are half-naked Communists aiming to bring down the American economic system when they're not doing drugs or having sex in public. — The answer is no. That alarmist view …
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Prairie Weather, Cafe Hayek and Balloon Juice
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Paul Ryan Is Living in a Fantasy Land Older Than Ayn Rand — Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you today's worst paragraph in political rhetoric, courtesy of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Dickens), in an appearance at the Heritage Foundation, which must be like seeing The Beatles at The Cavern in Liverpool, back in the day.
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com, Grasping Reality …, New York Magazine and TBogg
Daily Mail:
The thermal images that prove 90% of tents in the Occupy camp in London are left EMPTY overnight — These are the damning images that prove the anti-capitalist protest that has closed St Paul's Cathedral is all but deserted at night. — Footage from a thermal imaging camera taken late …
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americanthinker.com, Say Anything and Verum Serum
Mark Halperin / Time:
The Big Questions: By Mark Halperin — Is President Obama on the ropes? — If the election were held today, the Obama-Biden ticket would not win the 270 electoral votes required to hold the White House. The coalition that helped elect the President—fired-up liberals, independents …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Rubin dismisses Erickson's ‘anti-Semitic screed’ — RedState's and CNN's Erick Erickson wrote today, in response to my profile today of the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, that her politics might be better described as “Likud” than conservative, drawing a sharp response from Rubin to me this evening.
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The Politico, Israel Matzav, RedState, Weekly Standard, American Power, The Other McCain, Riehl World View, The Spectacle Blog and FishbowlDC
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
7 reasons why Obama is wrong on income inequality — As if ordered up directly by the Obama White House and Occupy Wall Street, the Congressional Budget Office has produced a timely report looking at income inequality. The CBO found that between between 1979 and 2007 …
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Power Line, Hot Air, Cafe Hayek, Money & Company, Guardian, The Huffington Post and PERRspectives
Robert Cox / Talk of the Sound:
Chelsea Clinton Mulls Congressional Run from New York State; 18th District in Westchester County Considered Likely Choice — Talk of the Sound has learned that Chelsea Clinton may run for Congress next year. — Clinton has been approached by “the right people” in the New York Democratic Party, according to one source in Albany.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Gay troops to file suit challenging Defense of Marriage Act — Gay and lesbian service members and veterans plan to file suit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of the federal ban on gay marriage and federal policy that define a spouse as a person of the opposite sex.
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ThinkProgress, The Politico, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Inappropriate Note Author Identified and Removed From Screening — Earlier this week, a passenger found a highly inappropriate note scrawled on a “Notice of Inspection” that TSA places in checked bags if they are required to be searched. She tweeted a photo of what she found and we soon learned of the incident.
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