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1:55 PM ET, November 10, 2011

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Perry implodes; Update: Campaign is over, says top fundraiser  —  Via Business Insider.  A few choice quotes.  Larry Sabato: … Rich Lowry: … Mona Charen: … He's down to 4.9 percent now on InTrade; before the debate he was at 9.3 percent.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
In the Perry camp, sad  —  A prominent Perry supporter emails:  —  Original Message—  From:  —  Sent: Wed 11/9/2011 9:21 PM  —  To: Ben Smith  —  Subject: i'm sad  —  stuck a fork in himself  —  can't decide which is worse Dean scream or Perry oops  —  bourbon for me, i think
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Perry Toast?  —  Almost immediately after what will probably be remembered as the Bill Buckner moment of primary debates, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry literally forgot which governmental agencies he would cut and concluded his answer with a sheepish “Oops,” Mr. Perry's stock on the betting market Intrade dropped in half.
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Most Brutal Debate Video and Tweets Ever
Discussion: Say Anything and JustOneMinute
Mike Paluska / CBS Atlanta 46:
Investigator: Herman Cain innocent of sexual advances  —  Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix.  —  Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Anti-Cain hoax exposed  —  Yesterday I saw a lengthy thread at Memeorandum about a “HermanCainPAC” website which had a large cover story calling Karen Kraushaar an “ugly bitch.”  Here's the screenshot:  —  The website looked real, with a donate page and so on.
A.Killough / CNN:
First on CNN: Kraushaar won't do news conference without other accusers
Ann Coulter / Official:
DAVID AXELROD'S PATTERN OF SEXUAL MISBEHAVIOR
Nate Schweber / New York Times:
Penn State Students Clash With Police in Unrest After Announcement  —  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — After top Penn State officials announced that they had fired Joe Paterno on Wednesday night, thousands of students stormed the downtown area to display their anger and frustration, chanting the former coach's name …
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Mark Viera / New York Times:
Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Is Fired  —  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Graham B. Spanier, one of the longest-serving and highest-paid university presidents in the nation, who has helped raise the academic profile of Penn State during his tenure, stepped down Wednesday night in the wake …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Ford.  Quayle.  Stockdale.  Now, Poor Rick Perry  —  In the long annals of presidential-campaign debating, there had until this evening been three famous-disaster moments:  —  1) 1976, Gerald Ford and Poland.  This one wasn't quite fair.  Ford was trying to make a reasonable point …
Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk
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ABCNEWS:
Rick Perry on His ‘Oops’: There's No ‘Perfect Candidate’
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Abolishing The Department Of Energy
Discussion: Washington Post
Quinnipiac University:
Obama, Romney Tied In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; Cain, Romney Duel For Gop Lead In All Three States  —  One year before the presidential election, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are running neck and neck in Florida …
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Senate Dems move to repeal DOMA  —  Senate Democrats and backers of gay marriage won a key victory Thursday in their quest to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, but it's unclear where it will go next.  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 along party lines in favor for the Respect …
Discussion: CNN and NewsMax.com
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Respect For Marriage Act
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
Matt Krupnick / Mercury News:
Police arrest UC Berkeley students, professor over Occupy camp  —  BERKELEY — Moving quickly to quell a protest on the site where the Free Speech Movement was born, UC Berkeley police in riot gear on Wednesday tore down tents and arrested at least seven people who had established an Occupy Cal camp.
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Jordan Bach-Lombardo / The Daily Californian:
Live Blog: Nov. 9 Day of Action at UC Berkeley
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain riffs on defeating Obama: ‘You beat him with a Cain’  —  Herman Cain made his second questionable joke in as many days Thursday, telling a supporter in Michigan who asked the Republican frontrunner how he would beat Obama, “You beat him with a Cain.”  —  Cain was then asked by a reporter …
Discussion: CNN
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The Page:
CNBC's “Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate” Live from Oakland University in Rochester, MI ...  BARTIROMO: And good evening, everyone.  I'm Maria Bartiromo.  —  HARWOOD: I'm John Hardwood.  —  And welcome to CNBC's Republican Presidential Debate.
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New York Times:
CNBC ‘Your Money, Your Vote’ Republican Presidential Debate
Barnett Wright / The Birmingham:
Jefferson County files largest government bankruptcy in U.S. history  —  BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Jefferson County, facing $4.23 billion in debt and running short of cash, gave up Wednesday on reaching a deal with its creditors and immediately filed the largest government bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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Bloomberg:
Jefferson County Files Biggest U.S. Municipal Bankruptcy
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Back to Even With “Generic” Republican Candidate  —  Independents now evenly split after previously favoring the Republican  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama now essentially ties, 43% to 42%, a “generic” Republican candidate when U.S. registered voters are asked whom they are more likely …
Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Group launches super PAC to aid Gingrich  —  Solutions 2012, a new super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich's gradually improving presidential campaign, launched Wednesday night during the GOP debate.  —  “We're going to go into the states and rally the activists, and build the organization Newt needs …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Taylor Marsh
Stuart Tomlinson / Oregonian:
Police arrest man at Occupy Portland camp for throwing Molotov cocktail into stairwell at World Trade Center  —  A 29-year-old man was arrested this morning inside the Occupy Portland encampment, police said, on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail onto a staircase at the World Trade Center last night.
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Reggie Love, Obama ‘body man,’ to leave White House by year's end  —  Reggie Love, a key member of the Obama entourage, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year, people close to the administration said.  —  Love, 30, is a popular, gregarious figure in the White House.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Financial Folly of Fairness  —  When I was a young and naive economics writer, I used to write about developing countries a fair amount.  Time and again they would make these bizarre and pointless moves, like suddenly and for no apparent reason defaulting on a bunch of debt.
 
 
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Senate votes down measure that would have overturned net-neutrality rules
Discussion: The Politico
Philip Kennicott / Washington Post:
In McPherson Square, Occupy D.C. creates a vibrant brand of urbanism
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Sean Coons / The Atlantic Online:
Documentary ‘Under Fire’ Shows That War Is Hell for Journalists
The Politico:
Supercommittee Dems offer $350 billion in Medicare cuts
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Bill Graves / Oregonian:
Basic Rights Oregon will not put same-sex marriage on 2012 ballot
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Google+ Is Dead  —  The search behemoth might not realize it yet …
Discussion: Rod Dreher
Alicia M. Cohn / Ballot Box:
Conservatives uniting to defeat Romney
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban
Discussion: Don Surber, The Consumerist and Gawker