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3:00 PM ET, September 7, 2010

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Washington Post:
Republicans making gains against Democrats ahead of midterm elections  —  Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.  Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack …
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for an Anti-Incumbent Wave  —  Poll Shows Republicans Benefit From Fears About Economy; Democrats Need to Persuade Unenthusiastic Backers to Vote  —  This is about the time when Democrats thought—or perhaps hoped—the political clouds that have hung over them all year would begin to lift.
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Revolt Against Status Quo Gives Republicans Record Lead in 2010 Midterms  —  ABC News-Washington Post Poll: Dissatisfaction with Federal Government at Highest Level in 18 Years  —  Swelling economic discontent has pushed dissatisfaction with the federal government to its highest level in 18 years …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Mind of America  —  A new Washington Post poll is out.  Selected questions are shown below.  Summary: Americans trust Democrats more to handle the country's problems, they think Democrats represent their values better, they think Democrats are more concerned with the needs of people like them …
Dylan Loewe / The Huffington Post:
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Impolitic
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Clear GOP advantage ahead of midterms
The Huffington Post:
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE)
Discussion: The Fix and The Plum Line
Mike Allen / The Politico:
New polls point to tsunami
Discussion: Time, Hot Air and FrumForum
The Note:
The Firewall: Democrats Eye Must-Win Seats
Discussion: Ballot Box and No Left Turns
Peter Orszag / New York Times:
One Nation, Two Deficits  —  The nation faces a nasty dual deficit problem: a painful jobs deficit in the near term and an unsustainable budget deficit over the medium and long term.  This month, the Senate will be debating an issue with significant implications for both …
CNN:
Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns  —  Feeling passionate about this story?  Put your thoughts on video and share them with CNN iReport.  —  (CNN) — The pastor of a Florida church planning to burn Qurans told CNN Tuesday while the congregation plans to go through …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
Discussion: National Review and Weasel Zippers
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket  —  TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks.  The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street.
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P.
Discussion: The Politico
Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Rome is Burning  —  There is a critical point that I fear the commentariat is just not getting.  In my darker moments I fear that some of my fellow economists aren't getting it either but we aren't going to go there.  —  Look at these two graphs because they tell you the fundamental problem in America today:
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Eschaton
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Scrubbing Santorum  —  Why Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum can't beat his Google problem.  —  Post Comment  —  Rick Santorum would very much like to be president.  For the past few years, he has been diligently appearing at the sorts of conservative events—the Values Voters Summit …
Discussion: Pam's House Blend and GOP 12
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Reid: Don't blame me for Nevada's high unemployment rate  —  “It would take a real stretch to think I caused the problems with the economy,” Reid said Tuesday.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday expressed confidence in his prospects for reelection and said that voters …
Discussion: Think Progress and Weasel Zippers
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Desert Firestorm: The Nevada Senate Race Heats Up
Discussion: The Note, The Plum Line and TPMDC
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Economy  —  How trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus produced a 1.6% recovery.  —  So two months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he's rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy.
Howard Kurtz:
Appeasing the Google Gods  —  I can no longer file a story in our computer system without filling out a box, a small gray square that may well determine the future of serious journalism.  —  The box is supposed to contain words and phrases that will help me reel you in.
Timothy Noah / Slate:
The United States of Inequality  —  In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date.  The United States was displacing Great Britain …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
John Podesta predicts White House ‘soul-searching’  —  John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress and leader of Barack Obama's presidential transition team, expects to see some “soul-searching” and “changes” in the White House after November's elections.
Discussion: Commentary
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Fidel to Ahmadinejad: ‘Stop Slandering the Jews’  —  (This is Part I of a report on my recent visit to Havana.  I hope to post Part II tomorrow.  And I also hope to be publishing a more comprehensive article about this subject in a forthcoming print edition of The Atlantic.)
David Weigel / Slate:
Can the Tea Party win in Delaware the way it won in Alaska?  —  WILMINGTON, Del.—Mike Castle is in his element.  It's Saturday and Delaware's only representative in the U.S. House has positioned himself at the entrance to the Arden Fair, a 103-year-old celebration of a left-leaning artist community …
Jed Lewison / Daily Kos:
KY-Sen: Rand Paul staffer caught posing as progressive at Daily Kos  —  As you probably know, there's a moneybomb underway to raise money for Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway's campaign challenging Rand Paul for U.S. Senate.  —  Well, it turns out that at least one member …
Paul Krugman:
Infrastructure  —  Some bleary-eyed thoughts from Japan on the reported administration proposal for $50 billion in new spending:  —  1. It's a good idea  —  2. It's much too small  —  3. It won't pass anyway — which makes you wonder why the administration didn't propose a bigger plan …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Audit finds Sharpton's nonprofit on brink  —  Tweet  —  An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton's National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping — and may not even survive, The Post has learned.
Robert Reich:
Why Obama Is Proposing Whopping Corporate Tax Cuts, and Why He's Wrong  —  President Obama reportedly will propose two big corporate tax cuts this week.  —  One would expand and make permanent the research and experimentation tax credit, at a cost of about $100 billion over the next ten years.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Sign of the Court's Polarization: Choice of Clerks  —  WASHINGTON — Each year, 36 young lawyers obtain the most coveted credential in American law: a Supreme Court clerkship.  Clerking for a justice is a glittering capstone on a résumé that almost always includes outstanding grades …
 
 
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bbc.co.uk:
'It's misplaced anger': Muslim congressman on NY Islamic centre row
Discussion: The Hill and Weasel Zippers
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ONE OF THE MOST ANNOYING WORDS IN POLITICS.... This Washington …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Bookworm Room:
Obama's dog comparison is a really and truly weird thing to say
Matt Vasilogambros / Iowa Independent:
Reynolds backs denying education to illegal immigrants
Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Trying To Have It Both Ways On What The Bond Market Is Saying About The Deficit
Ezra Klein:
Don't cut Social Security, cont'd
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
A Republican takeover of the House will make Capitol Hill …
Discussion: Hot Air and Don Surber
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Obama's shrinking presidency
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What we lost when we lost our factories
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Midlands Connect:
No cameras in debate after Spratt's request
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John Noble Wilford / New York Times:
Desert Roads Lead to Discovery in Egypt
Discussion: Yale Alumni Magazine