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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Why the Chicago teachers 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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Chicago Tribune, Politico, BuzzFeed, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Week, Taylor Marsh, The Hinterland Gazette, AEIdeas, Macsmind, Business Insider, Lynn Sweet and Washington Examiner
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
U.S. Department of Education: 79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading — (CNSNews.com) - Seventy-nine percent of the 8th graders in the Chicago Public Schools are not grade-level proficient in reading, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and 80 percent are not grade-level proficient in math.
John Fund / National Review:
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers' Unions
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers' Unions
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Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, Politico, Hot Air, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Jawa Report and Blue Crab Boulevard
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!
Xian Barrett / Teacher X:
Why I'm striking, JCB — CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard …
Why I'm striking, JCB — CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard …
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Daily Kos, Colorlines and Progressive Change …
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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Politico, newsfeed.time.com, Doug Ross, Hit & Run, Jammie Wearing Fools and EAGnews.org
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, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, Taylor Marsh, emptywheel, Diane Ravitch's blog, New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Unfogged
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
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Emanuel puts super-PAC fundraising job on hold
Emanuel puts super-PAC fundraising job on hold
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Ballot Box, Reuters, CNN and The Agonist
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
For the Romney campaign, it's forever 1980 — Romney campaign pollster Neil Newhouse is out with a new memo arguing that despite whatever convention bounce Obama is getting, Mitt Romney is going to win the presidential race. The crux of his case is that the Obama economy is simply too horrible …
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, Macsmind, The Daily Beast, The Mahablog and Riehl World News
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Talking Points Memo:
Romney Pollster: Everyone Chill Out, We Got This
Romney Pollster: Everyone Chill Out, We Got This
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Taegan Goddard's …, Election 2012, Paul Krugman, New York Magazine, Swampland and TBogg
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Panic Attack — As Nate Silver noted over the weekend …
Panic Attack — As Nate Silver noted over the weekend …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Daily Beast and The Caucus
BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Memo: Don't Panic
Romney Campaign Memo: Don't Panic
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The Fix, Wonkette, The Other McCain and Talking Politics
Neil Newhouse / Mitt Romney for President …:
MEMORANDUM: STATE OF THE RACE
MEMORANDUM: STATE OF THE RACE
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Politico, GOP 12, Wake up America, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo and Riehl World News
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, Mashable!, The Impolitic and New York Magazine
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Kevin Cirilli / Reuters:
Scott Van Duzer, the Obama hugger: Shop facing boycott — The owner of a Florida pizza shop says people are boycotting his business because he bear-hugged President Barack Obama on Sunday. — “People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” Scott Van Duzer, 46, told POLITICO.
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Mediaite, PoliticusUSA, Gawker, The Caucus, newsfeed.time.com, Jammie Wearing Fools, Washington Post, theGrio, The Gateway Pundit, BBC, Gothamist, CNN and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »
BuzzFeed:
The Most Anti-Gay Piece Of Political Mail This Year — There is still time, but a mailer first reported by Politico and prepared in the name of “The Committee To Save The Erie County Republican Party” in New York has set a mighty low bar. Republican state Sen. Mark Grisanti voted …
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Politico, Gawker, Joe. My. God., Towleroad News #gay and The Impolitic
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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Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler and The Other McCain
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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
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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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
NEWS FLASH — ROMNEY DOG-WHISTLES TO TENTHER EXTREMISTS: 'I'M AS CONSERVATIVE AS THE CONSTITUTION' | During his interview yesterday with Meet the Press, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney made the rather odd statement he is “as conservative as the Constitution” …
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USA Today
Brian Tashman / rightwingwatch.org:
Pat Robertson: Since 'We Don't Condone Wife-Beating These Days' Husband Should ‘Move to Saudi Arabia’ to Beat Her — Mitt Romney this weekend stumped alongside televangelist Pat Robertson, not minding Robertson's legacy of incendiary, insensitive, heartless and apocalyptic rhetoric that has gotten him in trouble in the past.
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Gawker, The Raw Story, Firedoglake, Mediaite, Daily Kos, The New Civil Rights Movement and Friendly Atheist
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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 …
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Washington Free Beacon, “The Lid”, Scared Monkeys, International Liberty, National Review, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, The Heritage Foundation, The Rightnewz, Blue Crab Boulevard, Vodkapundit, The Glittering Eye, The Lonely Conservative, americanthinker.com, Pirate's Cove and Jammie Wearing Fools
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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“The Lid”, Doug Ross, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Politico, CNN, National Review, The PJ Tatler, Washington Examiner and Israel Matzav
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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CANNONFIRE, The New Civil Rights Movement and PoliticusUSA
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Dem poll: Rep. Bachmann in trouble
Dem poll: Rep. Bachmann in trouble
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The Political Carnival and Outside the Beltway
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, Hit & Run, Applesauce and AEIdeas
Bill Maher:
Birther Control — Chris Matthews dressed down RNC Chair Reince Priebus last week for Romney's playing the race card with the birther joke, and the party doing it with the false welfare ads, constantly bringing up that he's a “European-style socialist,” etc.
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
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 …
Dylan Matthews / Washington Post:
Do 15% of Ohio Republicans think Romney killed bin Laden? Probably not. — Public Policy Polling has a new poll (pdf) out of Ohio showing Obama with his biggest lead since May. Given how hard it would be for Mitt Romney to win the White House without winning Ohio, that's a big deal.
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Taking Note, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, CANNONFIRE, Politika, The Raw Story and Public Policy Polling
CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama up six points over Romney — (CNN) - A new survey indicates President Barack Obama moved up four points following the Democratic National Convention last week, and now has a six point advantage over his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. — According to a CNN/ORC International Poll …
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The Atlantic Online, Talking Points Memo, Weekly Standard and Politico
Klint Finley / TechCrunch:
GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility — According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it.
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BBC, Ubergizmo, Betabeat, Guardian, VentureBeat, The Raw Story, The Verge, Gawker, Daily Dot, New York Times, WJLA-TV and Outside the Beltway
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 …
Red Tape:
EXCLUSIVE: The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week — Security of personal information attached to iPhones is examined after a group leaked UDID numbers last week. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports. — NBC's Kerry Sanders — A small Florida publishing company …
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BlueToad, Inc. Blog, AllThingsD, Wired, Mashable, Talking Points Memo, Insight, The Verge, Daily Dot, TechCrunch and VentureBeat