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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
With GOP jittery, Romney faces test of resolve — Mitt Romney and his top aides are running an essentially faith-based campaign. Whatever the polls say at the moment, whatever the pundits say, whatever some nervous Republicans say, Team Romney simply does not believe President Obama can win re-election in today's terrible economy.
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Hot Air, The Page, Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
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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, The Daily Beast, Macsmind, The Mahablog, Washington Monthly and Riehl World News
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 …
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, Plunderbund, Paul Krugman, Taegan Goddard's …, Swampland, Spectator, The Reaction and TBogg
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, Talking Points Memo, PoliticusUSA and Riehl World News
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
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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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, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, NewsBusters.org blogs, Politico, 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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Philly.com, New York Times, Daily Kos, Progressive Change … and Colorlines
Reuters:
Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform
Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform
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newsfeed.time.com, Joanne Jacobs and The Agonist
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
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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Gawker, Joe. My. God. and The Impolitic
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Anti-gay marriage attack piece in New York race
Anti-gay marriage attack piece in New York race
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Towleroad News #gay
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.
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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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
Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
The Ghost of George W. Bush — Why Dubya will decide the winner this fall. — The conventions are over, but the individual who will determine the 2012 election didn't attend either of them. His name is George W. Bush. — LM Otero / AP — Conventional wisdom holds that elections are about the future.
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Hot Air, The Daily Beast and The Daily Dish
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Nick R. Martin / Talking Points Memo:
Arizona's Birtherpalooza Canceled Over Low Ticket Sales — Not even the promise of crooner Pat Boone singing oldies from a spinning stage could save what was intended to be the premier birther event of the year later this month in Arizona. — Organizers of the gala, which would have …
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The Political Carnival and Daily Kos
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”, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Doug Ross, Politico, CNN, The PJ Tatler, National Review, AEIdeas, Washington Examiner and Israel Matzav
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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Baltimore Sun, The Lonely Conservative, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Liberal group targets Ann Romney in new ads — A liberal political group is criticizing Ann Romney's comment that she and her husband “have not had a financial struggle in our lives.” — The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is launching online ads, first set to run in Ohio …
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Riehl World News, Ballot Box and Jammie Wearing Fools
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, International Liberty, National Review, “The Lid”, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, The Heritage Foundation, Weasel Zippers, The Glittering Eye, The Rightnewz, Blue Crab Boulevard, Vodkapundit, The Lonely Conservative, Pirate's Cove, americanthinker.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
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
CNN:
Akin, returning to Capitol, says he's ‘totally in’ Missouri race — Washington (CNN) - U.S. Rep. Todd Akin returned to Capitol Hill Monday for the first time since his comments about “legitimate rape” caused widespread condemnation from fellow Republicans, some of whom called on Akin to drop his bid for Missouri's U.S. Senate seat.
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Politico and The Rightnewz
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