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Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Obama widens lead over Romney despite jobs data: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Saturday.
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Erik Wasson / Ballot Box:
Poll: Obama opens up four-point lead on Romney nationally — President Obama's post-convention bounce has grown in a new Gallup poll released Saturday. — Gallup's daily tracking poll has Obama at 49 percent support among registered voters to GOP candidate Mitt Romney's 45 percent.
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Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
The GOP convention negative bounce: a final look — (Greetings, readers of Political Wire, Andrew Sullivan, Reddit, DailyKos, and others. To see what our low-noise approach implies for directing both Democratic and Republican campaign donations, click here.) — Soon, post-DNC state polls will begin to arrive.
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The Daily Dish, The Impolitic and Booman Tribune
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Inside story of Obama's struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis — President Obama summoned the top four congressional leaders to the White House on Saturday morning, July 23, 2011. The night before, House Speaker John A. Boehner had withdrawn from negotiations …
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The Raw Story and Connecting.the.Dots
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Erik Wasson / Ballot Box:
Romney: GOP leaders, Obama made ‘mistake’ agreeing to sequester
Romney: GOP leaders, Obama made ‘mistake’ agreeing to sequester
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama jokes Bill Clinton should be named ‘secretary of explaining stuff’
Obama jokes Bill Clinton should be named ‘secretary of explaining stuff’
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Is This Election Close? — For a long time I have been predicting that Mitt Romney would get the Republican nomination, and that he would then win the general election. I have said that the election will be reasonably close-demographic realities dictate that all national elections …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Double-Minded Republicans
Double-Minded Republicans
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Obama tells ‘birther’ joke, asks young boy if he has birth certificate — President Obama poked fun at conspiracy theories which question whether he was born in the United States during a campaign stop in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday. — The president made a stop at a local sports bar …
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Maayana Miskin / Arutz Sheva:
Mass Arab Attack on Jewish Village — Hundreds of PA Arabs assault Jewish villagers in the Binyamin region, children cry as mob screams ‘slaughter the Jews.’ — Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs have been assaulting a Jewish village in the Binyamin region since Saturday afternoon, Tatzpit reports.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 8: Conventions May Put Obama in Front-Runner's Position — On Friday, we began to see reasonably clear signs that President Obama would receive some kind of bounce in the polls from the Democratic convention. — Mr. Obama had another strong day in the polls on Saturday …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Joe Walsh To Sandra Fluke: ‘Get A Job’ (VIDEO) — Add freshman tea party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) to the list of Republicans attacking Sandra Fluke after her appearance at the Democratic National Convention. — At a campaign stop Saturday in Addison, IL, Walsh, who faces a tough reelection battle …
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Christina D. Romer / New York Times:
Cutting the Deficit, With Compassion — ASIDE from the empty chair that Clint Eastwood debated, the main prop at the Republican convention was a debt clock, highlighting the federal deficit and the growing national debt. The importance of dealing with the deficit will clearly be a major Republican theme this fall.
ABCNEWS:
On ‘This Week’: GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan — Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks during a campaign event at East Carolina University on Sept. 3, 2012 in Greenville, N.C. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo) — As the general election season heads …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming music service, multiple sources confirm.
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