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7:40 PM ET, November 14, 2011

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Gingrich takes the lead  —  Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in PPP's national polling.  He's at 28% to 25% for Herman Cain and 18% for Mitt Romney.  The rest of the Republican field is increasingly looking like a bunch of also rans: Rick Perry is at 6%, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5% …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Gingrich soars, Cain drops  —  Washington (CNN) - A new national survey of Republicans indicates that it's basically all tied up between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, with Gingrich on the rise and businessman Herman Cain falling due …
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  New National Polls Show Newt Leading In GOP Race (Yes, Really)
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Five Reasons Rick Perry Will Survive...For Now
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Iowa numbers: Cain, Gingrich, Romney on top
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Feel the Newt-mentum
Journalistdee / CNN:
What's behind Gingrich's jump in the polls
Discussion: Global Public Square
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court sets 5 1/2-hour hearing on health care (FINAL)  —  FINAL UPDATE at 11:09 a.m. A separate post, coming shortly, will provide further analysis of the grants.  (It is posted above this.)  —  Setting the stage for a historic constitutional confrontation over federal power …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, President Obama's signature legislative achievement.  The development set the stage for oral arguments by March and a decision in late June …
Ilya Shapiro / Cato @ Liberty:
Obamacare Is Bigger than Roe v. Wade
Discussion: Power Line
Don Walker / JSOnline:
Cain stumbles on Libya question  —  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, in the midst of a Midwestern campaign swing, stumbled Monday when answering a question about whether he agreed or disagreed with President Barack Obama's approach to handling the Libyan crisis.
New York Post:
Ex-cop boots OWS heckler from congressman's swearing-in  —  Meet New York's newest hero.  —  Kevin Hiltunen, a former NYPD officer, yesterday grabbed an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator by the collar and dragged him out of a Queens school where he'd been heckling US Rep. Bob Turner at the congressman's swearing-in ceremony.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC  —  NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News.  —  The appointment is immediate.  Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus …
FRBSF:
Future Recession Risks: An Update … Gathering storms across the Atlantic threaten a U.S. economy not yet recovered from the last recession.  The September Economic Outlook from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) indicates that growth prospects have significantly dimmed …
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Ann Saphir / Reuters:
Chance of 2012 U.S. recession tops 50 percent: Fed paper  —  (Reuters) - The European debt crisis is raising the odds of a U.S. recession, with economic contraction more likely than not by early 2012, according to research from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.
Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Ex-boyfriend of Cain accuser backs her story  —  Dr. Victor Zuckerman said today he backs ex-girlfriend Sharon Bialek's allegation that Herman Cain “touched her in an inappropriate manner.”  —  Zuckerman, a pediatrician, came forward after Cain last week denied knowing Bialek.
GQ:
A Pizza Party with Herman Cain  —  He's the funniest, most outrageous guy on the GOP stage.  And he's got a simple plan to save America.  Yes, that plan is more than a little nutty, and yes, his charm has taken a big hit lately.  But have you met his competition?
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cain: Majority of US Muslims share extremist views
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun  —  “Talkin' about my generation”: the Who song once expressed the hope and self confidence of the Baby Boomers as they reached biological if not emotional maturity.  It was an attack on the older generation, a defense of the young …
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Michael Klopman / The Huffington Post:
Jerry Sandusky Interview: Ex-Penn State Coach Talks About Children To NBC In 1987 (VIDEO)
San Francisco Chronicle:
Quan's top legal adviser resigns over raid  —  (11-14) 08:51 PST OAKLAND — Mayor Jean Quan's chief legal adviser resigned early this morning after what he called a “tragically unnecessary” police raid of the Occupy Oakland camp.  —  Dan Siegel, a civil rights attorney and one of Oakland's …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?  (Updated)  —  This is crazy.  New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert.  The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A candidate can only fake it for so long  —  There was a BBC reality show I used to find interesting called, “Faking It.”  The show would have someone take a crash course in a professional field that is not their own, help them try to master it, and then try to fool a panel of experts.
ESPN:
NBA players reject owners' offer  —  NEW YORK — The NBA players rejected the league's latest offer Monday and have begun the process to disband the union.  —  The decision likely jeopardizes the 2011-12 NBA season.  —  “We're prepared to file this antitrust action against the NBA,” union executive director Billy Hunter said.
Discussion: WJLA-TV and Gothamist
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Howard Beck / New York Times:
Players Reject N.B.A. Offer and Opt to Disband Union
Discussion: Law Blog and Inside TV
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ Hit On Boehner, Pelosi Falls Short … 60 Minutes , Eric Cantor , John Boehner , Nancy Pelosi , Pelosi , Video , Boehner , Political Intelligence , Politics News  —  WASHINGTON — A “60 Minutes” investigation of stock trading by members of Congress singled …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes  —  WASHINGTON — With a little over a week left to reach a deal, members of the Congressional deficit reduction panel are looking for an escape hatch that would let them strike an accord on revenue levels but delay until next year tough decisions about exactly how to raise taxes.
Dylan Byers / Ben Smith's Blog:
Obama defends hot mic moment  —  On Sunday afternoon in Hawaii, Obama commented on his “hot mic” exchange with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the G20 summit, saying the exchange—in which the President complained about having to “deal” with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu “every day” …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
 
 
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Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:
Assembly Speaker Silver bruised, but busy, after bicycle accident
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP sen.: Feds send checks to millionaires for not working
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Gingrich blasts supercommittee: It's ‘the dumbest idea’ I've seen in a lifetime
Discussion: The Politico
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Occupy Protesters Interrupt Chamber Of Commerce Health Care Event
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