New CNN Poll: Perry on top when it comes to electability  —  Tampa, Florida (CNN) - Hours before the start of the first-ever CNN/Tea Party Republican debate, a new national survey indicates that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is maintaining his lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

Turner poised for big upset  —  Republican Bob Turner is poised to pull a huge upset in the race to replace Anthony Weiner as the Congressman from New York's 9th Congressional District.  He leads Democrat David Weprin 47-41 with Socialist Workers candidate Christopher Hoeppner at 4% and 7% of voters remaining undecided.

An Impeccable Disaster  —  On Thursday Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank or E.C.B. — Europe's equivalent to Ben Bernanke — lost his sang-froid.  In response to a question about whether the E.C.B. is becoming a “bad bank” thanks to its purchases of troubled nations' debt …

GOP grumbles about jobs plan  —  House Republicans may pass bits and pieces of President Barack Obama's jobs plan, but behind the scenes, some Republicans are becoming worried about giving Obama any victories — even on issues the GOP has supported in the past.

Obama Said to Send Congress Jobs Legislation Tomorrow  —  Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will send to Congress tomorrow a legislative proposal to enact a $447 billion package of tax cuts and spending aimed at boosting hiring, according to an administration official.

Shocking Barro  —  People have been asking for my reaction to Robert Barro's op-ed, so I finally went and read it.  And I have to say that I'm shocked by the laziness - he's not even trying to present a coherent argument.  —  I mean, here's the structure of what he says:

Al Gore in 24-hour broadcast to convert climate skeptics  —  (Reuters) - Former President Al Gore will renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of the link between climate change and extreme weather events this week in a 24-hour global multi-media event.

In Cheney's memoir, it's clear Iraq's lessons didn't sink in  —  A key lesson of the 9/11 decade for presidents and other national security decision makers is the importance of rigorously testing intelligence evidence: poking holes in it, setting out contradictions, figuring out what may have been overlooked or left out.

JPMorgan chief says bank rules ‘anti-US’  —  By Tom Braithwaite in New York and Patrick Jenkins in London  —  New international bank capital rules are “anti-American” and the US should consider pulling out of the Basel group of global regulators, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, has said.

Veto a State, Lose an Ally  —  The United States must support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month or risk losing the little credibility it has in the Arab world.  If it does not, American influence will decline further, Israeli security will be undermined …

In Tapes, Candid Talk by Young Kennedy Widow  —  In the early days of the Cuban missile crisis, before the world knew that the cold war seemed to be sliding toward nuclear conflict, President John F. Kennedy telephoned his wife, Jacqueline, at their weekend house in Virginia.

Winning ugly  —  By all appearances, Republicans are poised to win tomorrow's special election in New York's 9th, a seat left vacant by Anthony Weiner's resignation.  It's generally a Democratic stronghold, making the likely GOP victory quite surprising.  —  There are plenty of factors at play …

U.S. backs move to let Taliban open headquarters in Qatar in the hope of ending war in Afghanistan  —  Talks to end the 10-year war in Afghanistan could be on the horizon after the U.S. backed a plan to let the Taliban open political headquarters in the Middle East.