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10:50 PM ET, November 8, 2011

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The Caucus:
A Second Accuser Goes Public Against Cain  —  Karen Kraushaar, one of the two women who settled sexual harassment claims against Herman Cain with the National Restaurant Association, spoke publicly for the first time on Tuesday about her allegations against him.
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The Daily:
Another Cain accuser only doing right thing, family and friends say  —  Herman Cain claims sexual harassment accusations threatening to derail his presidential campaign are a smear campaign.  But friends and family of one accuser say she is a principled and dedicated professional who was only trying …
New York Post:
Jobless & shameless gal going for gold  —  Gold diggers — unite!  —  Sharon Bialek is 50, out of work and, according to one who knows her, she's a smooth operator living way above her means.  From the look of her heavily painted face, she's also soon to be in acute need of a new tub of eyeliner.
Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun Times:
Witness: Cain accuser hugged him during Tea Party meeting a month ago  —  The Cain Encounter ...  They hugged each other backstage in a full embrace like old friends.  —  She grabbed his arm and whispered in his left ear.  —  She kept talking as he bent to listen, and he kept saying “Uh, huh.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Cain's Image Showing Signs of Decline Amid Allegations
The Politico:
For Herman Cain, two named accusers; one flat denial
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Iowa Republican
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Cain Camp Questions Bialek's Background
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Herman Cain: Sharon Bialek's charges are ‘baseless, bogus and false’
Associated Press:
Ohio Voters Reject Republican-Backed Union Limits  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state's new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment.
Discussion: Hotline On Call
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WXIX-TV:
AP: Ohio voters reject Issue 2
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Labor bets it all on Ohio
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Republicans offer tax deal to break debt impasse; Democrats dismiss it  —  Congressional Republicans have offered to increase tax revenue by nearly $300 billion over the next decade through an overhaul of the tax code, a significant concession aimed at breaking a long-standing impasse in negotiations over the federal debt.
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Dan Friedman / NationalJournal.com:
Senate GOP: Willing to Accept Up to $300 Billion in Net Tax Increases
Ginger Gibson / The Politico:
Election Day tests pols, issues  —  Voters in a handful of states headed to the polls Tuesday - to weigh in on governors, state lawmakers, mayors and ballot measures in an off-year race that will be scoured for clues into next year's presidential contest.  —  Mississippi and Kentucky are holding odd-year gubernatorial elections.
Discussion: CNN
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David Catanese / The Politico:
2011 election results: Steve Beshear cruises to second term in Kentucky
Kevinliptak / CNN:   Beshear easily wins re-election in Kentucky
Brain-Terminal.com Full Feed:
My Heavily-Edited Video of a Good-Natured Stroll Amongst the Occupiers of Zuccotti Park, Which is a Few Blocks North and Slightly to the West of Wall Street in New York City  —  Occupy Wall Street  —  Recently, I brought a camera and a few multiple-choice questions to Zuccotti Park …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Hobbyist Photographer Describes Assault in Zuccotti Park
Discussion: The Impolitic and Verum Serum
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Mitt Romney as the Nominee: Conservatism Dies and Barack Obama Wins  —  Mit Romney will not go on Special Report with Brett Baier to answer the tough questions as the other candidates have done.  No worries.  Conservatives will bitch and moan for a few days and Romney will claim it was a scheduling issue …
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Bill Mears / CNN:
Health care law held constitutional in latest appeals court ruling  —  Washington (CNN) — The sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama was upheld as constitutional by another federal appeals court Tuesday.  —  The decision is not part of a half-dozen other appeals pending at the Supreme Court.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
D.C. Court upholds health reform law
New York Times:
Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno's Exit Amid Scandal  —  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno's tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials …
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David S. Addington / The Heritage Foundation:
Obama Couldn't Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax  —  President Obama's Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.
Michael O'Malley / Metro:
Election worker bites voter's nose outside Cleveland polling place  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — A poll monitor working for the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, assaulted a voter at a polling place in Cleveland at midday Tuesday, sending the voter to a hospital.
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Ellen McGregor / WEWS-TV:
Voter in Cuyahoga County says he was bitten on the nose by poll worker
Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
Post Roast: Jennifer Rubin's retweet  —  Is a news organization responsible for what its journalists put out on Twitter?  And what if those journalists are opinion writers?  Those questions came up in October when The Post's Right Turn opinion blogger, Jennifer Rubin, retweeted a controversial tweet …
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Obama threatens to veto net-neutrality repeal  —  President Obama will veto an attempt to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's net-neutrality rules if it passes the Senate, the White House said Tuesday.  —  “The Administration strongly opposes Senate passage of S.J. Res. 6 …
Discussion: The Politico, Reuters and RedState
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Al Franken / The Huffington Post:
Net Neutrality is Under Attack... Again
Discussion: The Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Heavy D — Dead at 44  —  5:12 PM: An associate of Heavy D's just told us the rapper had pneumonia.  —  4:28 PM: Law enforcement tell TMZ ... Heavy D had just returned from shopping and walked up some stairs when he began having trouble breathing.  Adam Mills, a designer who was in the building …
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Melts Down, Screams At Constituents: ‘Dont Blame Banks!...I Am Tired Of Hearing That Crap!’  —  Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) erupts at a constituent who asked about the bank lobby  —  Freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) is known for his anti-Obama rhetoric on cable television and his inability to pay his child support payments.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Why do Sarkozy and Obama hate Netanyahu?  —  Binyamin Netanyahu seems to have been the target of some ugly — if off the record — barbs from President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  Speaking privately (they thought) following a news conference in Cannes last week, Sarkozy said …
Steve Randy Waldman / interfluidity:
The negative unnatural rate of interest  —  David Andolfatto points out that US five-year real interest rates are now negative.  Nick Rowe discusses the possibility that the so-called “natural” real interest rate could be negative, referring us to Frances Woolley's discussion of the drag demographics might exert on real returns.
LAT Blogs / 24 Frames:
Clint Eastwood talks politics: Who's the Democrat he voted for?  —  Clint Eastwood is such a passionate fiscal conservative that when he married his second wife, Dina Ruiz, in 1996, he included her finances in his own personal deficit-reduction campaign.  “My wedding present to her was paying off …
Discussion: Big Hollywood
 
 
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