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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Why the Chicago teacher's strike is bad news for President Obama — For the first time in nearly three decades, Chicago public school teachers went on strike this morning. At first glance, you might be tempted to think that what happens in Chicago has little to no effect on the politics of Washington and the presidential race.
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BuzzFeed, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, Politico, Taylor Marsh, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Week, The Hinterland Gazette, AEIdeas, Business Insider, Macsmind, Washington Examiner and Lynn Sweet
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Xian Barrett / Teacher X:
Why I'm striking, JCB — CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard is on record saying both that CTU leadership is deciding whether or not to strike, and that “everyone knows that a strike would only hurt our kids.” — I just wanted to educate my boss a little on the history of Chicago, as he is relatively new to the area.
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Daily Kos, Colorlines and Progressive Change …
Zaid Jilani / Progressive Change Campaign Committee:
Chicago's Teachers Just Went On Strike — Here's Everything You Need To Know About Why
Chicago's Teachers Just Went On Strike — Here's Everything You Need To Know About Why
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NPR, Crooks and Liars, New York Times, Diane Ravitch's blog, emptywheel, Taylor Marsh, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Unfogged
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Ties Obama To Chicago Teachers' Strike
Romney Ties Obama To Chicago Teachers' Strike
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Chicago Sun Times, americanthinker.com and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
John Fund / National Review:
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers' Unions
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers' Unions
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Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Jawa Report
Michelle Malkin:
Chicago thuggery personified: Meet Chicago Teachers' Union president Karen Lewis
Chicago thuggery personified: Meet Chicago Teachers' Union president Karen Lewis
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newsfeed.time.com, Hit & Run, Weekly Standard and Jammie Wearing Fools
Rosalind Rossi / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years; contingency sites ready, charters remain open
Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years; contingency sites ready, charters remain open
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading
U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading
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protein wisdom and Clayton Cramer's Blog
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Appears To Copy Text From Obama Website — You didn't write that! Donation instructions for Romney's new “Victory Wallet” taken from Obama's “Quick Donate” feature. The Obama version went up in March. — Source: donate.barackobama.com — Source: mittromney.com
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Salon, The Impolitic and New York Magazine
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Obama'08:
Quick Donate — Support the campaign with single-click donations on the web, in emails, and via text message. — All you need is a barackobama.com account with a securely saved credit card. — Donate with SMS — After you've saved your credit card and phone number in your BarackObama.com account …
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Election 2012
Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
President Obama to Bob Woodward: ‘Mistake’ to Dress Down Paul Ryan to His Face in Budget Speech — President Obama told author Bob Woodward that he didn't know Rep. Paul Ryan was going to attend at a major speech he delivered last year on spending and debt, and says in retrospect that it was …
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Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Bob Woodward: ‘Gaps’ in President Obama's Leadership Contributed to Debt Deal Collapse — “Gaps” in President Obama's leadership contributed to the collapse of a “grand bargain” on spending and debt last year, with the president failing to cultivate congressional relationships that may have helped …
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Politico, Washington Monthly, First Read, Mother Jones, Wizbang, Power Line, A plain blog about politics, Hot Air, “The Lid”, americanthinker.com and Macsmind
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 9: Call It as You See It — I've been picking up some sentiment from analysts and journalists in my Twitter feed recently, who correctly note that polling around the party conventions can be volatile. They suggest that we ought to wait for more data before concluding very much about the bounces …
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BuzzFeed:
Pat Robertson Encourages Man To Move To Saudi Arabia So He Can Beat His Wife — Romney ally is joking. But, “something's got to be done,” he tells a man whose wife won't submit. — Televangelist Pat Robertson, who campaigned with Mitt Romney this past weekend in Virginia …
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Reuters:
Insight: GM's Volt - The ugly math of low sales, high costs — (Reuters) - General Motors Co sold a record number of Chevrolet Volt sedans in August — but that probably isn't a good thing for the automaker's bottom line. — Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid …
Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Maryland Democrat quits congressional race amid vote fraud allegations — A Maryland Democratic candidate quit her congressional race Monday after her own party told state officials that she had committed fraud by voting in both Maryland and Florida in recent elections.
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The PJ Tatler
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Matthew Hay Brown / Baltimore Sun:
Democrat drops challenge to Harris after allegations she voted in two states
Democrat drops challenge to Harris after allegations she voted in two states
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Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Poll: Bachmann in danger — A new survey provided exclusively to Salon shows the Minnesota congresswoman's lead down to just 2 points — Despite her national fan base and a massive war chest, Rep. Michele Bachmann may be in more danger than most suspect, with a new poll showing her lead diminished to just two points.
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The New Civil Rights Movement, PoliticusUSA and CANNONFIRE
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Dem poll: Rep. Bachmann in trouble
Dem poll: Rep. Bachmann in trouble
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Outside the Beltway and The Political Carnival
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings? — President Obama is touting his foreign policy experience on the campaign trail, but startling new statistics suggest that national security has not necessarily been the personal priority the president makes it out to be.
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Politico, The Lonely Conservative, CNN, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, National Review, Israel Matzav and Washington Examiner
Red Tape:
EXCLUSIVE: The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week — BlueToad.com's CEO, Paul DeHart talks with NBC's Kerry Sanders about a security breach at the company. — NBC's Kerry Sanders — A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database …
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Talking Points Memo, Wired, AllThingsD, Mashable, Insight, The Verge, Daily Dot, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
Trey Gowdy Confronted At Gunpoint, Suspect Gloria Yvonne Brackett Arrested [UPDATED] … FOLLOW: — Video, Gloria Brackett, Gloria Brackett Arrested, Gloria Brackett Trey Gowdy, Trey Gowdy, Trey Gowdy Gloria Brackett, Trey Gowdy Gun, Trey Gowdy South Carolina, Trey Gowdy Threatened, Politics News
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Jammie Wearing Fools and The Hill
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Cops: Woman pointed gun at Rep. Trey Gowdy
Cops: Woman pointed gun at Rep. Trey Gowdy
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Mediaite and The Raw Story
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator: ‘Bomb Everybody Tomorrow’ Is ‘Typical’ Republican Policy — Between calls from leading Republicans to get ready for war with Iran, remain in Afghanistan and Iraq, and intervening militarily in Syria, it's no surprise that some on the left might label the GOP's approach to foreign policy “bomb everyone tomorrow.”
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Politico, Applesauce and AEIdeas
Thomas B. Edsall / Campaign Stops:
The Ryan Sinkhole — Unlike the Republican platform, which has mostly been ignored outside of the abortion issue, the Paul Ryan budget is the core document of the 2012 campaign. It is the most explicit expression of the Republican agenda, endorsed by the party's presidential candidate …
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Panic Attack — As Nate Silver noted over the weekend, four major national tracking polls (Gallup, Ipsos, RAND, and—yes—Rasmussen) all showed Obama making significant gains against Mitt Romney during and immediately after the Democratic Convention. — Although the “bounce” …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, GOP 12 and The Daily Beast
BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Memo: Don't Panic — As Obama enjoys a hefty post-convention bump, Romney's pollster insists “the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly.” — Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters — BOSTON, Mass. — As new polls show President Obama opening up a wider lead coming …
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The Fix, The Other McCain, Wonkette and Talking Politics