memeorandum: Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolinians registered to vote (Kelly Poe/The Charlotte Observer)

4:10 PM ET, September 3, 2012

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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 …

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.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Naked Politics and Politico

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.

Discussion: American Power, USA Today, The Moderate Voice, americanthinker.com, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Balloon Juice and The Reaction

Tim Mak / Politico:

Poll:Mitt Romney speech has low impact — Americans scored Mitt Romney's GOP convention speech the lowest since Bob Dole's acceptance speech in 1996, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. — Following the Republican National Convention in Tampa, 40 percent of voters …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Sept. 2: Split Verdict in Polls on Romney Convention Bounce — My view is that the consensus of evidence so far points toward Mitt Romney having received a small bounce in the polls of perhaps two or three percentage points from the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla.

Discussion: Capital Tonight, The Agonist and neo-neocon

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.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Other McCain, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Althouse and Nice Deb

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Chicago Boyz, The Raw Story, The Jawa Report, Nice Deb and American Power

Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
‘EASTWOODING’ INSPIRES NATIONAL EMPTY CHAIR DAY ON MONDAY

Discussion: Washington Wire, Atlas Shrugs, Hot Air, Babalú Blog, UrbanGrounds and iOwnTheWorld.com

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

Discussion: Wizbang, Althouse, CANNONFIRE, Talking Points Memo, The New Republic, The PJ Tatler and BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed:

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 …

Discussion: BuzzFeed

Byron Tau / Politico:
L.A. mayor: 44 continues 42's policies

Discussion: The Daily Beast and Roger L. Simon

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bill Clinton on Obama: ‘A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Gateway Pundit

Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Obama turns to Bill Clinton, the old pro, to help win reelection

Discussion: CNN, Washington Monthly, Politico and Outside the Beltway

Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:

New N.C. poll gives Romney small lead in presidential race — It puts GOP candidate 4 percentage points ahead of Obama — CHARLOTTE, N.C. Republican Mitt Romney appears to have gotten his bounce from his party's national convention - at least in the state hosting the Democratic convention, according to a poll released Sunday.

Discussion: NBC Politics, Outside the Beltway, First Read and Scared Monkeys

Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Labor tries to soften image with ‘hug a union thug’ booth in Charlotte

Discussion: Politico, CNN and The Gateway Pundit

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
NC enters convention tied up

Discussion: Politico, The Fix, The Rightnewz and National Review

Kelly Poe / The Charlotte Observer:
Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolinians registered to vote

Discussion: Washington Post, Riehl World News and The Gateway Pundit

Joe Garofoli / blog.sfgate.com:

CA Dem chair John Burton compares GOP tactics to Goebbels for “telling the big lie” (VIDEO) — Charlotte - Greetings from the California delegation breakfast at the DNC where before he had a cup of coffee Democratic Party Chair John Burton - much like his ol' palGuv Jerry Brown once did …

Discussion: Washington Wire, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Capitol Alert, The Fix, The Raw Story, Nice Deb, The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon and Riehl World News

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.”

Discussion: The Reaction, Washington Wire, Althouse, The Raw Story, Election 2012, The Hill and The Fix

Jonathan Miller / NationalJournal.com:
O'Malley Does an About-Face: Yes, We are Better Off

Discussion: Hot Air, americanthinker.com, The Maddow Blog, The Rightnewz and Capital Tonight

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.

Discussion: Truthdig, The Moderate Voice, Balloon Juice, The Maddow Blog, TBogg and Bark Bark Woof Woof

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?

Discussion: USA Today and Truthdig

Caitlin McDevitt / Associated Press:
A push for Betty White to address the DNC

Discussion: New York Magazine

WDIV-TV:

Secret Service U-Haul stolen from Detroit Hotel — U-Haul carrying equipment for Vice President Joe Biden's visit Monday … DETROIT - — A U-Haul being used by the secret service for Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the Labor Day Rally in Detroit on Monday was stolen out of a hotel parking lot Sunday morning.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

CNN:
U-Haul with equipment for Biden event stolen in Detroit

Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS, Babalú Blog, The Hill, ABCNEWS, Gawker, New York Magazine, The Rightnewz and The Raw Story

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.

Discussion: USA Today, Mediaite, Gawker and Bookworm Room

Paul Krugman:

Britain's Paul Ryan — In a lot of ways George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) is Britain's answer to Paul Ryan. True, he's a toned-down version — no Ayn Rand, please, we're British — but other aspects of package are there in full force: he's articulate …

Discussion: Associated Press and Outside the Beltway