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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
The awful, awful August jobs report — This was not the employment report either American workers or the Obama campaign were hoping for. A huge miss. It shows the U.S. labor market remains in a deep depression, generating few jobs and little if no income growth. As IHS Global Insight puts it:
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Payrolls in U.S. Rose 96,000 in August, Jobless Rate Fell — Payrolls rose less than projected in August and the unemployment rate declined as more Americans left the labor force, indicating the U.S. labor market is stagnating. — The economy added 96,000 workers last month following …
Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
August Employment Report: 96,000 Jobs, 8.1% Unemployment Rate — From the BLS: … Click on graph for larger image. — This was another weak month, especially with the downward revisions to the June and July reports. — This was below expectations of 125,000 payroll jobs added.
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Grim jobs market confronts Obama, Fed — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pump additional money into the sluggish economy next week and dealing a blow to President Barack Obama as he seeks re-election.
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GOP 12, The Mental Recession and American Spectator
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Disappointing jobs report unlikely to change presidential contest — Today's unemployment report was disappointing: only 96,000 jobs created last month, and revisions reducing the previous two months by 40,000, it was not only well below expectations but, more importantly, below what the economy needs to do to get people back to work.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Guardian and Paul Krugman
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Record 88,921,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’—119,000 Fewer Employed in August Than July
Record 88,921,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’—119,000 Fewer Employed in August Than July
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Sweetness & Light and Riehl World News
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Labor Force Participation Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since September 1981
CHART OF THE DAY: Labor Force Participation Rate Falls To Lowest Level Since September 1981
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Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
New Jobs at 96,000, Missing Expectations; Rate Hits 8.1%
New Jobs at 96,000, Missing Expectations; Rate Hits 8.1%
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
August jobs report: 96,000 jobs added, unemployment 8.1%, 30-year low in workforce participation rate
August jobs report: 96,000 jobs added, unemployment 8.1%, 30-year low in workforce participation rate
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Paul Miller / pineconearchive.com:
Eastwood says his convention appearance was ‘mission accomplished’ — AFTER A week as topic No. 1 in American politics, former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians after his appearance at the Republican National Convention …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
No sign of convention bounce for Obama: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - So far, U.S. President Barack Obama has not received much of a bounce yet in popular support from the Democratic National Convention, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Thursday. — The latest daily tracking poll found …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama sets tweets-per-minute record
Obama sets tweets-per-minute record
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
From Tampa to Charlotte and Beyond
From Tampa to Charlotte and Beyond
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
TV pundits split on Obama speech
TV pundits split on Obama speech
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Queerty, Outside the Beltway and Sister Toldjah
White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in August — While there is more work that remains to be done, today's employment report provides further evidence that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression. It is critical that we continue the policies …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Did Obama Phone It In? — Barack Obama's speech tonight was....OK. But that was about all. It meandered, it skittered, and most of the time it seemed oddly themeless. It had some good lines, but too often they were left hanging. Take this jab at Republicans, for example: … That's a good riff.
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NPR:
Transcript: President Obama's Convention Speech … PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Sustained cheers, applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. — AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. — AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Four more years!
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Tanya Sinkovits / CBS St. Louis:
TV Station Pulled Akin's Ads Due to of Lack of Payment — ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) - Is Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin facing a cash crunch? Todd Akin's TV ads are, reportedly, being yanked from stations across the state because his campaign isn't paying the bills.
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New York Times:
Obama, in Democratic Convention Speech, Asks for More Time — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Obama on Thursday night accepted the Democratic nomination for a second term, making a forceful argument that he had rescued the economy from disaster and ushered in a recovery that would be imperiled by a return to Republican stewardship.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
'Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off than he was four years ago'
'Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off than he was four years ago'
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Acknowledges Requesting Federal Money From Program Funded By Obamacare — Earlier this week, the Nation uncovered the fact that Paul Ryan — who has voted with his party to repeal President Obama's health care law over 30 times — requested Obamacare funds for his Wisconsin district in 2010.
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Jason Millman / Politico:
Clinton: We're better off with ACA …
Wall Street Journal:
The Democrats' Soft Extremism — Obama is out of ideas, and Clinton's speech was unworthy of him. — Barack Obama is deeply overexposed and often boring. He never seems to be saying what he's thinking. His speech Thursday was weirdly anticlimactic. There's too much buildup, the crowd was tired, it all felt flat.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
The Romney swing-state blitz, revealed — We reported Thursday that Mitt Romney was about to embark on a major general-election TV offensive, marking his first major use of the post-convention dollars his campaign has been dying to spend. Now, Team Romney is putting out word …
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival — Apple Inc. is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service similar to the popular one operated by Pandora Media Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a bid by the hardware maker to expand its dominance in online music.
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Jaweed Kaleem / The Huffington Post:
Cardinal Timothy Dolan's Benedictions At RNC And DNC (FULL TEXT) … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Democratic Convention, Democratic Convention, Elections 2012, Religion and Politics, Video, 2012 Democratic Convention, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Cardinal Timothy Dolan …
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
A Tale of Two Conventions — The political conventions are (finally) over, and with that the general election (finally, or at least officially) begins in earnest. In the next few days we'll be subjected to endless analyses of what went right, what went wrong, and what was a wash …
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Washington Wire, AEIdeas and The Glittering Eye
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Secret Service Arrests Charlotte Man For Twitter Death Threats Against Barack Obama — Buster — A North Carolina man was arrested yesterday for threatening to kill President Barack Obama in a series of Twitter messages, one of which warned that, “Ima hit president Obama with that Lee Harvey Oswald swag …
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