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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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mmicdata.rand.org, Outside the Beltway and Booman Tribune
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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.
Politico:
State of the race: Advantage, Obama — President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede. — The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Obama's lackluster prime-time performance …
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Via Meadia
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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The Gateway Pundit, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! and CNN
Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
The GOP convention negative bounce: a final look
The GOP convention negative bounce: a final look
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The Impolitic, The Daily Dish 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 The night before, House Speaker John A. Boehner had withdrawn from negotiations …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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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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The Political Carnival
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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The Reaction and CNN
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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The Mahablog, The Reality-Based Community, Belmont Club and ProfessorBainbridge.com
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Double-Minded Republicans
Double-Minded Republicans
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ProfessorBainbridge.com and Blue Crab Boulevard
Bill Lichtenstein / New York Times:
A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children — IN my public school 40 years ago, teachers didn't lay their hands on students for bad behavior. They sent them to the principal's office. But in today's often overcrowded and underfunded schools, where one in eight students receive help …
David Weigel / Slate:
The Age of Trolling — How a small band of conservatives generated half of the Democratic Convention's headlines. — Vice-president Biden speaks at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. — © Richard Kalvar/Magnum Photos for Slate.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Gov. Brown renews fitness test challenge against Christie — California Gov. Jerry Brown still wants New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to take him up on a three-part fitness challenge. — Brown renewed his call Sunday to battle Christie in a 3-mile race, chin-up and push-up contest during an interview on CNN's “State of the Union.”
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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CNN, Scared Monkeys, Taegan Goddard's …, Politico and Weasel Zippers
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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Israel Matzav