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12:40 PM ET, September 5, 2012

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ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Michelle Obama's Democratic Convention Speech  —  Below is the full transcript, as prepared for delivery, of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night.  —  Thank you so much, Elaine...we are so grateful for your family's service and sacrifice …
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CNN:
TRENDING: First on CNN: DNC secretly scheduled guests: Actresses Johansson, Portman, Washington  —  Charlotte (CNN) - Clint Eastwood meet Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Kerry Washington.  —  The three actresses, firmly anchored in Hollywood's royalty, have been secretly scheduled …
CNN:
BREAKING: Obama's speech to move indoors  —  Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) - After days of bad weather, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and Democratic National Convention organizers have decided to change the venue of the president's acceptance speech Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Lightning threat forces Obama to change convention plans  —  (CBS News) CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democrats are significantly downsizing the final night of their national convention, moving the events — including President Obama's acceptance speech — from Bank of America Stadium to the Time Warner Cable Arena …
Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama speech moved indoors  —  Democratic officials confirm to POLITICO that President Obama's prime time address will be moved indoors to the Time Warner Center.  —  The Thursday address was scheduled to be at Bank of America stadium — an outdoor venue with more than 70,000 seats.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Taylor Marsh
Emily Goodin / The Hill:   Dems move Obama speech from football field to smaller venue
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Rain Will Keep 65,000 Ticketholders From Obama
Discussion: National Review
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:   Breaking: Obama speech moved indoors due to ... weather; Update: Obama tried downplaying attendance expectations
CNN:
CNN Fact Check: About those 4.5 million jobs ...  San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro touted 4.5 million new jobs created during the Obama administration.  Was he right?  —  (CNN) — Anyone watching the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night heard the number 4.5 million several times.
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Paul Ryan: Dems ‘purged’ God  —  GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said President Barack Obama's administration “purged” mentions of God from the Democratic Party platform Wednesday.  —  “I think it's rather peculiar,” Ryan said on “Fox & Friends.”  “It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision.
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
The Truth Behind The GOP Claim That Obama Hasn't Created A Single Net Job
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and Newsy
Associated Press:
Some Obama Programs Embellished by Democrats
Discussion: ABC15 Arizona, Politico and CNN
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Live-blogging Day 1 of the Democratic Convention.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 4: The Simple Case for Why Obama Is the Favorite  —  I've been tiptoeing around this point, because I don't think that our forecast model ought to represent the totality of our analysis about the election.  —  But if you look at the right-hand column of this page …
Discussion: Guardian and Booman Tribune
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Bill Clinton's 8 digs at Obama  —  There's only one president who actually came from Hope.  —  Former President Bill Clinton — a native of Hope, Ark. — is expected to offer a rousing endorsement of President Barack Obama in his speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Riehl World News
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: The Importance of Bill Clinton
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton's convention appearance could influence two elections
Discussion: Salon, Online NewsHour and neo-neocon
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
DWS attacks Examiner for ‘deliberately’ misquoting her, but here's the audio … CHARLOTTE - Earlier this evening, in an appearance on Fox News, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused the Washington Examiner of “deliberately” misquoting her comments claiming …
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Charlotte speech increases rumors Kerry is up for Hillary Clinton's job  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will be defending President Obama's record on national security when he speaks to convention delegates on Thursday evening, but political observers will be watching …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Taylor Marsh
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Bill Clinton Speech At Democratic Convention: GOP ‘Built’ National Debt
Haim Saban / New York Times:
The Truth About Obama and Israel  —  AS an Israeli-American who cares deeply about the survival of Israel and the future of the Jewish people, I will be voting for President Obama in November.  Here's why.  —  Even though he could have done a better job highlighting his friendship for Israel …
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Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
Iran: Zionists spread homosexuality to control world
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Israel Matzav
Vanity Fair:
Barack Obama to Michael Lewis on a Presidential Loss of Freedom: “You Don't Get Used to It—At Least, I Don't” … “Don't be looking to the sidelines all sheepish,” Barack Obama yells at Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Lewis in “Obama's Way,” in October's V.F. “You got to get back and play D!”
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
RNC Highlights: Romney Shares Top Billing With Eastwood  —  Fewer Watch Convention Coverage than in 2008  —  OVERVIEW  —  The public paid far less attention to this year's Republican convention than it did to the GOP convention four years ago.  Just 37% say they watched …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Repealing Obamacare would take health care away from people  —  Stacey Lihn, the very nervous and emotional mother of a child with a heart defect, at the Dem convention just now: … There's been a good deal of punditry to the effect that Obama and Dems will have to run from the health law this cycle …
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The night Democrats reclaimed “Obamacare”
BuzzFeed:
“Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To”  —  A provocative line in a DNC video.  UPDATE: Obama campaign disclaims.  —  Source: youtube.com  —  The Democratic National Convention has signaled from the start an unapologetic, and at times, confrontational, liberalism …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Pinocchio Press  —  The bizarre rise of “fact checking” propagandists.  —  In the 19th-century fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” the eponymous protagonist is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming an actual boy.  We suppose people who work as fact checkers have long dreamed …
Ryan J. Reilly / Talking Points Memo:
Justice Department Clears New Hampshire Voter ID Law  —  The Justice Department has cleared New Hampshire's voter ID law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  Unlike voter ID laws DOJ has challenged, voters who lack an acceptable form of photo identification will be allowed to cast …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
POTUS will do conference call with out-of-luck ticket-holders
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Colin Campbell / Politicker:
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Mirwais Harooni / Reuters:
Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, sacked for insurgent links
Discussion: emptywheel and Jihad Watch
Talking Points Memo:
Romney Camp Announces Black Leadership Council
Washington Post:
Rahm Emanuel to raise funds for Democratic campaigns
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Where's Al Gore?
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Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
G.O.P. Shift Moves Center Far to Right
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Crossroads ads take aim at ‘Forward’
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Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air:
Politico's VandeHei: ‘Mainstream media tends to be quite smitten with the Obamas.’
Talking Points Memo:
Barney Frank: In Crisis Time, Dems Worked With Bush - But GOP Shunned Obama
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