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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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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.
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USA Today, The Moderate Voice, americanthinker.com, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Balloon Juice and The Reaction
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.
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The Agonist, Capital Tonight and neo-neocon
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 …
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Outside the Beltway
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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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 …
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BuzzFeed
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bill Clinton on Obama: ‘A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags’
Bill Clinton on Obama: ‘A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags’
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Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Gateway Pundit
Byron Tau / Politico:
L.A. mayor: 44 continues 42's policies
L.A. mayor: 44 continues 42's policies
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The Daily Beast and Roger L. Simon
Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Obama turns to Bill Clinton, the old pro, to help win reelection
Obama turns to Bill Clinton, the old pro, to help win reelection
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CNN, Washington Monthly, Politico and Outside the Beltway
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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Michelle Malkin:
Monday is National Empty Chair Day; Updated with photos
Monday is National Empty Chair Day; Updated with photos
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Power Line, protein wisdom, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Right Scoop and The Gateway Pundit
Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
‘EASTWOODING’ INSPIRES NATIONAL EMPTY CHAIR DAY ON MONDAY
‘EASTWOODING’ INSPIRES NATIONAL EMPTY CHAIR DAY ON MONDAY
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Labor tries to soften image with ‘hug a union thug’ booth in Charlotte — This Labor Day, unions are trying a mix of celebrity, social media and humor to polish up the labor movement's image in the eyes of everyday people. — In Charlotte, people will be asked to “hug a union thug” …
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Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
New N.C. poll gives Romney small lead in presidential race
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
NC enters convention tied up
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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
Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolinians registered to vote
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Riehl World News and The Gateway Pundit
Joe Garofoli / blog.sfgate.com:
CA Dem chair John Burton compares GOP 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 …
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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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
O'Malley Does an About-Face: Yes, We are Better Off
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Hot Air, The Maddow Blog, americanthinker.com, The Rightnewz and Capital Tonight
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 …
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Associated Press and Outside the Beltway
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Bush Chief Political Strategist: Paul Ryan's Speech Was Full Of Lies — Former Bush political strategist Matthew Dowd — Paul Ryan's speech before the Republican National Convention was riddled with lies, including a tall-tale blaming President Obama for the closure of a GM plant that announced its shutdown in June 2008.
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Hedrick Smith / New York Times:
When Capitalists Cared — IN the rancorous debate over how to get the sluggish economy moving, we have forgotten the wisdom of Henry Ford. In 1914, not long after the Ford Motor Company came out with the Model T, Ford made the startling announcement that he would pay his workers the unheard-of wage of $5 a day.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Isn't Finished — The Paul Ryan selection shone a spotlight on the vice-president. He's ready for it—no matter what just came out of his mouth. — Jesus Christ! " Joe Biden barks, pitching forward in the captain's chair in his cabin aboard Air Force Two.