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10:25 AM ET, October 27, 2011

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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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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.
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.
Mj Lee / The Politico:
James Carville: Cain aide ‘drunk or stoned’
Discussion: The Raw Story
David Weigel / Slate:   Newt's Not Here, Man  —  Cain and Gingrich are making …
A.Killough / CNN:
Poll: Romney & Cain on top in Arizona
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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Kerry Wills / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protester who was pepper-sprayed finds romance with fellow demonstrator
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
GDP: good expectations for growth  —  View Photo Gallery —  From Australia to Venezuela, the World Bank lists the countries with the strongest gross domestic product in 2010.  All figures listed in U.S. dollars.  —  The third quarter was a rough one.
Discussion: Daily Kos and americanthinker.com
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Economic Growth Accelerates
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
New York Times:
Europe Agrees to Basics of Plan to Resolve Euro Crisis  —  BRUSSELS — European leaders, in a significant step toward resolving the euro zone financial crisis, early Thursday morning obtained an agreement from banks to take a 50 percent loss on the face value of their Greek debt.
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Reuters:
Euro deal leaves much to do on rescue fund, Greek debt
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
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.
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 …
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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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 …
New York Times:
Democrats' First Offer: Up to $3 Trillion for Debt  —  WASHINGTON — Faced with an approaching deadline and increasing skepticism about Congress's ability to accomplish the task before it, Democrats on a special Congressional committee assigned to reduce the nation's debt load on Wednesday …
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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 …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Sam Collyns / BBC:
Afghanistan: Pakistan accused of backing Taliban  —  Series Producer, BBC Two's Secret Pakistan  —  Pakistan has been accused of playing a double game, acting as America's ally in public while secretly training and arming its enemy in Afghanistan according to US intelligence.
Discussion: emptywheel
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Adrian Croft / Reuters:
Taliban commanders say Pakistan intelligence helps them
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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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Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:   Team Lowey Squashes Chelsea Clinton Story (Updated x 4: Now With More Squashing)
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 …
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Jon Huntsman on the tea party, the polls, and his hair: the Yahoo News interview  —  WASHINGTON—A crowd of eager college students huddled outside an auditorium at The George Washington University on Tuesday, pleading with a skinny kid wearing a headset to let them inside.  —  “There's no more room,” the kid insisted.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Massimo Calabresi / Swampland:
Hillary Clinton and the Limits of Power  —  Hillary Clinton argues in our cover story this week that America is not so much in decline as adjusting to a world of increasingly diffuse power, where like-minded networked individuals, non-governmental organizations and other non-traditional global actors …
Quinnipiac University:
Voters Back Wall St. Protesters, Millionaire's Tax, Quinnipiac University New York State Poll Finds; New Yorkers Divided On Natural Gas Drilling  —  New York State voters agree 58 - 28 percent with the views of the Wall Street protesters, as 60 percent of voters understand the protesters' views …
Discussion: The Politico
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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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
What if Perry Skips the Debates?
Cato @ Liberty:
William Niskanen, Former Reagan Economist and Cato Board Chair, Dead at 78
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Mideast deal that could have been
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
James Q. Lynch / Eastern Iowa Government:
Iowa Senate 18 candidates disagree on role of government
Discussion: ThinkProgress
The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Student-Loan Order Saves the Average Grad Less Than $10 a Month
Discussion: Hot Air and msnbc.com
Robinson / nation.foxnews.com:
DOJ Proposes Letting Government Deny Existence of Sensitive Documents
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Second Democrat says he'll support repeal of CLASS health program
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Black Support for Obama Is Steady and Strong
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Prairie Weather
Paul Glastris / Washington Monthly:
What Happens in the Campaign Stays in the Campaign
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Wisconsin Recall Prospects Dimming
 

 
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