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CNN Poll: Did Romney get a convention bounce? — Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) - It's the question everyone's asking: Did Mitt Romney get a bounce out of last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida? — According to a new national poll released Tuesday …
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Hill Poll: Voters say second term undeserved, country is worse off — A majority of voters believe the country is worse off today than it was four years ago and that President Obama does not deserve reelection, according to a new poll for The Hill. — Fifty-two percent of likely voters …
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Ryan muddles origin of Reagan's ‘are you better off’ line
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Sept. 3: Par or Bogey?
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Latino Decisions, Booman Tribune, GOP 12 and Hullabaloo

Exclusive: Democrats Drop ‘God’ From Party Platform — Guess what? God's name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform. — This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform: — “We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people …
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Pro-Israel Language Removed From Democratic Party Platform — Several pro-Israel sections of the 2008 Democratic Party platform have been removed from the 2012 platform—on Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, and Hamas. The new platform represents another shift by the Obama Democrats toward …
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Democrats Strip Pro-Israel Language From Platform
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DEMS REMOVE ALL REFERENCES TO ‘GOD’ FROM 2012 PARTY PLATFORM
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Mediaite, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller


Here's how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec leak — If you're worried that you might own one of the 1 million Apple devices that have had their UDIDs leaked by AntiSec, reportedly from a breach of an FBI agent's laptop, our rockstar tech team has put together a tool to help you check.
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FBI Denies It Was Source of Hacked Apple User Information
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If You Think Obama's First Term Was Bad, Imagine a Second — Ben Feller of the Associated Press asked President Barack Obama a good question recently. If Obama wins re-election, Feller said, Republicans are still likely to have a majority in the House. “How is that any different from what we have now?
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'64 or Bust — In a Bloomberg column, Ramesh Ponnuru makes …
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Hullabaloo and ECHIDNE of the snakes

Republicans Scoff At White House Theory That Obama Victory Will Break GOP ‘Fever’
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Balloon Juice, Grist and PERRspectives

The Crack Hotels of the DNC … I can't speak for the delegates or ther foreign dignitaries, but many of the journalists I have spoken with here are appalled at the accommodations in Charlotte to which they were assigned by the DNC. National Review was assigned to two Knights Inn properties.
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Bedbugs an increasing concern at DNC hotels
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Election 2012, The Daily Caller and Moe Lane


Exclusive: How Karl Rove's Super PAC Plays the Senate — On Thursday, Aug. 30, the final day of the Republican National Convention, Karl Rove gave a breakfast briefing to a group of about 70 of the Republican Party's most influential donors. As Bloomberg Businessweek reported …
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Haley Barbour: 'I Would Love For Christie To Put A Hot Poker To Obama's Butt'
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Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at ‘Muslim’ Obama and gays at Stockyards Music Festival — Hank Williams Jr. performs at the Stockyards Music Festival in Fort Worth on Sunday, September 2, 2012. (Kelley Chinn/Special Contributor) — of — FORT WORTH — Hank Williams Jr. prides himself …
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Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at Obama: 'We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys'
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“Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To” — A provocative line in a DNC video. — Source: youtube.com — The Democratic National Convention has signaled from the start an unapologetic, and at times, confrontational, liberalism, marked by details like the presence of reproductive rights activist Sandra Fluke.
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Virgil Goode makes presidential ballot in Virginia — Former congressman Virgil Goode Jr. has qualified for the presidential ballot in Virginia, the State Board of Elections ruled Tuesday morning, adding a potential obstacle to Republican Mitt Romney's hopes of winning the pivotal state.
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Democrats set to move Obama's big speech from 74,000-seater outdoor stadium to 20,000-seater indoor arena — Democrats are poised to avoid the danger of President Barack Obama accepting his party's nomination before a partially-empty stadium by shifting his speech to an indoor arena and citing ‘severe weather’.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Israeli ambassador called GOP “dangerous for Israel” … CHARLOTTE - Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed on Monday that Israel's ambassador to the United States has accused Republicans of being “dangerous” to Israel by criticizing President Obama's record.
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Commentary Magazine, Power Line, Weasel Zippers, Israel Matzav, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, AEIdeas and The Right Scoop

Why the Obama campaign is cautiously confident in victory — The Romney campaign makes a strong case that he may well prevail in November. As Mark Halperin summarized: “Team Romney remains convinced that voters crave a more concrete form of hope and change, and that the anemic economy …
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Booman Tribune and Balloon Juice


Pro-Romney Super PAC Launches Anti-Gay Marriage Ad to Snag Southern Swing State Votes — A still from the “New Morning” ad. (Photo: YouTube) — GASTONIA, NC — A super PAC with ties to evangelist leader Gary Bauer is trying frighten would-be Obama supporters in at least one Southern swing state …
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Obama's Popularity Dips Underwater; For Romney, a Faint Favorability Bounce — Barack Obama approaches his nomination for a second term with the lowest pre-convention personal popularity of an incumbent president in ABC News/Washington Post polls since the 1980s.
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ABCNEWS, Riehl World News and Blue Crab Boulevard


Paul Ryan: Obama didn't close the plant — Rep. Paul Ryan said Tuesday that he wasn't suggesting that President Barack Obama was responsible for the closure of an auto plant in Janesville, Wis., during his convention speech last week. — “What they are trying to suggest is that I said Barack Obama …
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The Elevator Speech — Why did God put Barack Obama on this earth? If you had asked that question between his 2004 convention address and his 2008 campaign, the answer could have been summarized in a short elevator speech. — Obama was here to heal our politics, to move us beyond …
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The Daily Dish, Mother Jones, Taking Note, Grist, Washington Wire, BillMoyers.com and Connecting.the.Dots


Naked gal gets deal on a suit: 15G for Times Sq. bust — NOW BUY SOME CLOTHES! Zoe West, busted for stripping down during a body-painting exhibition in Times Square last year has won a settlement in her false-arrest lawsuit. — A nude model busted for dropping her drawers during …
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Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine and The Jawa Report


Obama's Invisible Second-Term Agenda — Obama walks down the steps of Air Force One during his arrival on Saturday in Aurora, Colo. — Democrats are incredulous that Mitt Romney didn't mention U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan during his nomination acceptance speech.
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Hit & Run, Hot Air and National Review


Auto Sales for August Jumped 20%, Despite Rising Price of Gas — DETROIT — In the past, nothing slowed down strong car sales faster than a spike in gasoline prices. — But these days, consumers simply switch to more fuel-efficient models. — Major automakers reported Tuesday …
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The Maddow Blog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland


Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?: A Systematic Review — Crystal Smith-Spangler, MD, MS; Margaret L. Brandeau, PhD; Grace E. Hunter, BA; J. Clay Bavinger, BA; Maren Pearson, BS; Paul J. Eschbach; Vandana Sundaram, MPH; Hau Liu, MD, MS, MBA, MPH …
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