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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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The Hill, BuzzFeed, Chicago Tribune, Taylor Marsh, Politico, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Week, AEIdeas, The Hinterland Gazette, Business Insider, Macsmind, Lynn Sweet and Washington Examiner
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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 …
John Fund / National Review:
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers' Unions
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers' Unions
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
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!
Dylan Matthews / Washington Post:
How teacher strikes hurt student achievement
How teacher strikes hurt student achievement
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Firedoglake, Corey Robin, Balloon Juice and The Daily Beast
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, Chicago Tribune, Teacher Beat, Crooks and Liars, Diane Ravitch's blog, New York Times, emptywheel, Taylor Marsh, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Unfogged
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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Chicago Sun Times, Hit & Run, newsfeed.time.com, Wake up America and Jammie Wearing Fools
Associated Press:
Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years after contract talks fail
Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years after contract talks fail
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Right Scoop
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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Belmont Club, Ed Driscoll, protein wisdom and Clayton Cramer's Blog
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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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 and The Daily Beast
Talking Points Memo:
Romney Pollster: Everyone Chill Out, We Got This
Romney Pollster: Everyone Chill Out, We Got This
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Election 2012, Hot Air, USA Today and Taylor Marsh
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
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
For the Romney campaign, it's forever 1980
For the Romney campaign, it's forever 1980
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Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, The Mahablog and PoliticusUSA
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
Bob Woodward: ‘Gaps’ in President Obama's Leadership Contributed to Debt Deal Collapse
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Politico, First Read, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, Wizbang, Power Line, A plain blog about politics, Hot Air, “The Lid”, americanthinker.com and Macsmind
Manu Raju / Politico:
Reid mocks Ryan over marathon time misstatement [Updated]
Reid mocks Ryan over marathon time misstatement [Updated]
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Weasel Zippers
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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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, Mediaite, Firedoglake, Friendly Atheist, The Raw Story, Daily Kos and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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 …
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
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”, CNN, The Lonely Conservative, Politico, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, National Review, Israel Matzav and Washington Examiner
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, CANNONFIRE 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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Outside the Beltway and The Political Carnival
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
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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newsfeed.time.com, The Caucus, theGrio, The Gateway Pundit and BBC, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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 and Talking Points Memo
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
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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BlueToad, Inc. Blog, Wired, Talking Points Memo, AllThingsD, Mashable, Insight, The Verge, Daily Dot, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
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, Politika and The Raw Story