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Frank Newport / Gallup:
GOP Convention, Romney Speech Evoke Lukewarm Reactions — Speech gets lowest ratings of any Gallup has measured since 1996 — PRINCETON, NJ — Last week's Republican National Convention had a minimal impact on Americans' self-reported voting intentions, with just about as many saying …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
No bounce for Romney in Florida — PPP's newest Florida poll, conducted completely after the Republican convention, finds no change in the Presidential race there. Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 48-47, exactly as he did on our last poll of the state five weeks ago.
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Frank Newport / Gallup.Com:
No Signs of GOP Convention Bounce Yet — The two-week convention phase of this election is now at its midpoint. We won't know what the impact of the two conventions is until roughly Sept. 7-13, the full week after the Democratic convention closes in Charlotte.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 2: Split Verdict in Polls on Romney Convention Bounce
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Politico:
Right rallies for ‘Empty Chair Day’ — The right rallied on Labor Day to celebrate “National Empty Chair Day,” a show of solidarity with Clint Eastwood after his rambling address to an invisible President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention last week.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
National Empty Chair Day (photos from around country) — UPDATE - No new submissions being accepted for now, the response was so overwhelming that there's already a huge backlog. — Today is the impromptu National Empty Chair Day, which I covered on Saturday night when a reader alerted me to the idea.
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Peter Slutsky / Change.org:
Democrats: Ask Betty White to Introduce President Obama at the DNC — Clint Eastwood, the Republican's “mystery guest” at the RNC, gave a bad name to older Americans everywhere with his absurd and awkward-to-watch introduction of Governor Romney. — You know what?
Caitlin McDevitt / Associated Press:
A push for Betty White to address the DNC
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
‘EASTWOODING’ INSPIRES NATIONAL EMPTY CHAIR DAY ON MONDAY
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
LET'S BE FRIENDS … - SPORTS - PHOTO BOOTH - DAILY SHOUTS - PAGE-TURNER - DAILY COMMENT - AMY DAVIDSON - JOHN CASSIDY - ANDY BOROWITZ - RICHARD BRODY
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Democrats Wait, Nervously, On Clinton Speech — All other major addresses have been vetted. — Obama speaks as Clinton looks on during a campign event in New York on June 4, 2012. — Image by JEWEL SAMAD / Getty Images — CHARLOTTE, NC — Former President Bill Clinton is slated …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bill Clinton on Obama: ‘A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags’
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Byron Tau / Politico:
L.A. mayor: 44 continues 42's policies
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Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Obama turns to Bill Clinton, the old pro, to help win reelection
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Labor Brings Its Frustrations To Charlotte — “Charlotte wouldn't have been our choice as a city.” Lee Saunders beats the hell out of a chair. — AFSCME President Lee Saunders. — Image by Stewart Cairns / AP — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The newly-elected president of the giant public …
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Labor tries to soften image with ‘hug a union thug’ booth in Charlotte
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Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
New N.C. poll gives Romney small lead in presidential race
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
NC enters convention tied up
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David Weigel / Slate:
DNC 2012: Still Kitschin'
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Joe Garofoli / blog.sfgate.com:
CA Dem chair John Burton apologizes for comments invoking Goebbels about GOP “telling the big lie” (VIDEO) (AUDIO) — UPDATE: In response to the uproar over his (below) comments Monday, California Democratic Party Chair John Burton issued this statement: — “To correct press reports …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Team Readjusts On ‘Are You Better Off?’ — After either saying “no” or refusing to give a straight yes or no answer to Sunday show anchors when asked if Americans are better off today than they were four years ago, officials from Team Obama this morning changed their answers and enthusiastically offered a capital-Y “Yes.”
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Jonathan Miller / NationalJournal.com:
O'Malley Does an About-Face: Yes, We are Better Off
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rosie Ruiz Republicans — Remember Rosie Ruiz? In 1980 she was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon — except it turned out that she hadn't actually run most of the race, that she sneaked onto the course around a mile from the end.
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Obama Plays to Win, in Politics and Everything Else — As Election Day approaches, President Obama is sharing a few important things about himself. He has mentioned more than once in recent weeks that he cooks “a really mean chili.” He has impressive musical pitch, he told an Iowa audience.
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices.
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