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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama ratings sink to new lows as hope fades — Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama's inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
They like him — There's a deluge of terrible poll numbers for the White House today, but I think this one from our Battleground Poll is the most interesting: — Obama receives particularly low marks for his economic stewardship, with only 39 percent saying they approve and 59 percent saying they disapprove.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Battleground Poll: Obama approval rating down amid deep economic fears
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Obama hits all-time lows, according to NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Perry continues to shake up GOP field, lead polls
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Welcome, Union Brothers and Sisters — In my speech on Saturday in Iowa, I said: “Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses' security and ‘green energy’ giveaways, [Barack Obama] took care of his friends. And now they're on course to raise a billion dollars …
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Wasserman Schultz attacks Fox, ducks Hoffa — In a heated exchanged, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz repeatedly ducked questions on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday about Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa's call for workers to combat the tea party and “take these son-of-a-bitches out.”
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
World Ends Today; Markets to Close Early? — The news out of Europe yesterday and this morning somehow puts me in mind of the long opening sequence in the John Landis feature film rendering of The Twilight Zone, in which Dan Ackroyd says to Albert Brooks, “You want to see something really scary?”
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Courtney Comstock / Business Insider:
Deutsche Bank CEO Just Gave A Terrifying Speech In Frankfurt
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Brad Friedman / MoJo Articles:
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar — Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of this report, on the GOP superstar who rocked the Koch seminar crowd. — “We have Saddam Hussein,” declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama …
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Gavin Aronsen / Mother Jones:
Exclusive: The Koch Brothers' Million-Dollar Donor Club
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Janet Napolitano: Shoes-on flight in sight — Air travelers will eventually be able to keep their shoes on to pass through security, but the restrictions on carrying liquids on board are likely to remain in place for some time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a POLITICO Playbook breakfast Tuesday.
Larry J. Sabato / Wall Street Journal:
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States — National polls are nice, but Electoral College math is what matters. — Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries—that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day.
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner, Cantor want Obama to meet leaders before jobs speech — House GOP leaders on Tuesday asked President Obama to meet with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss his jobs plan ahead of his Thursday night address to Congress. — In a letter to Obama, House Speaker John Boehner …
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Elizabeth Mendes / Gallup:
Texas and Mass. Still at Health Coverage Extremes in U.S. — Southern states still see highest uninsured rates in the country — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Texas residents continue to be the most likely in the United States to lack health coverage, with 27.2% reporting being uninsured in the first half of 2011.
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted
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Fox News:
Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000 — The Obama administration has decided to drop the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, marking a major downgrade in force strength, multiple sources familiar with the inner workings and decisions …
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Magellan Strategies:
New York 9th Congressional District Special Election Survey (9/6/11) — Baton Rouge, LA - Magellan Strategies BR today released the survey results of an automated survey of 2,055 likely voters in New York's 9th Congressional District. The survey was conducted September 1st, 2011 and has a margin of error of 2.16%.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi drops the word ‘stimulus’ — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats have dropped the word stimulus from their vocabulary. — Though the House minority leader and her caucus are still pushing an economic stimulus agenda to save the economy, they've radically changed …
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Ron Paul to attack Rick Perry in new ad — Ron Paul is taking on Rick Perry in a new television ad blasting the Texas governor for for supporting Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned. — The 60-second spot, backed by a six-figure ad buy — the first negative ad attacking Perry …
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Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
About that Romney job creation record
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Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
Why are three free-trade deals languishing on Obama's desk? — According to the White House, President Obama has been huddling with advisers on a jobs plan he'll present to Congress this week. One thing he could do immediately is finalize the free-trade deals with Colombia …
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Baldwin slams Washington, Madison in first campaign speech — Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) used her first conference call as a Senate candidate as a populist attack on politicians in both Washington, D.C., and Madison, her hometown, accusing them as being “tone-deaf” and ignoring issues important to middle-class voters.
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Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
Grenades Case Hits Justice — Blunders After U.S. Arrest of Suspected Supplier Had a Part in High-Level Ousters — Federal authorities are probing why the U.S. in 2010 let go an Arizona man accused of supplying grenades to a Mexican drug cartel, a case that played a role in the ouster …
Bill Keller / New York Times:
My Unfinished 9/11 Business — Ten years after the attacks, we memorialize the loss and we mark the heroism, but there is no organized remembrance of the other feelings that day aroused: the bewilderment, the vulnerability, the impotence. It may be difficult to recall with our attention …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Editorial Independence — There's confusion - way too much confusion - about my status at TechCrunch and TechCrunch's status at Aol after last week's announcement that I was launching a venture fund, partially backed by Aol. — The multiple conflicting statements made by Aol on Thursday …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Leak Offers Look at Efforts by U.S. to Spy on Israel — WASHINGTON — When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case. They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.”
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Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
About Jeffrey Goldberg — Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the Atlantic, is the author of “Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.” He was formerly a Washington correspondent and a Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker. — Robert Gates Says Israel Is an Ungrateful Ally: Jeffrey Goldberg
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Shawn Millerick / New Hampshire Journal:
EXCLUSIVE: Palin's surprise visit delights bride and groom — On the eve of Sarah Palin's speech before the Tea Party Express in New Hampshire, the former Alaska Governor shocked diners and delighted wedding guests by making an unannounced visit to The Puritan Backroom restaurant for some of their famous chicken fingers.
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New York Times:
Europeans Talk of Sharp Change in Fiscal Affairs — As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-nation economic union works. — The idea is to create a central financial authority …
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John Phillips / Car and Driver Blog:
We Interview Vice President Joe Biden: He Owns a '67 Corvette and Loves Smoky Burnouts — America's vice president owns a '67 Corvette, and though he's not allowed to drive, he still enjoys the occasional smoky burnout. — C/D: You're the son of a car salesman? — JB: For 34 years, my dad managed dealerships in Delaware.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
How a Young Dick Cheney Fixed Prices for Millions — In the Nixon White House, he helped Donald Rumsfeld implement wage and price controls at the urging of their boss — Imagine if Barack Obama proposed, as an economic recovery measure, that all prices and wages in America be frozen …
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