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2:20 PM ET, September 10, 2012

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Zaid Jilani / Progressive Change Campaign Committee:
Chicago's Teachers Just Went On Strike — Here's Everything You Need To Know About Why  —  During a press conference tonight the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) announced that it will be going on strike, its first action of the sort in 25 years.  —  Why are these 29,000 teachers and school workers …
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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.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Why the Chicago teacher's strike is bad news for President Obama
Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Rosalind Rossi / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago teachers strike for first time in 25 years; contingency sites ready, charters remain open
John Fund / National Review:
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers' Unions
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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 …
First Read:
First Thoughts: After Tampa and Charlotte
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Within Hours, Mitt Romney Takes Back Everything He Said About Preexisting Conditions  —  On national TV on Sunday morning, with millions of people watching, Mitt Romney told David Gregory that there were parts of Obamacare he actually liked.  In fact, he said, one of the goals of his health care plan …
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Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Re: Romney and Obamacare
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 …
nbcnewyork.com:
FBI Arrests Trenton Mayor, Others in Corruption Probe  —  Details of the charges are expected to be released later Monday  —  Federal authorities arrested Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack and more than half a dozen other people early Monday in connection with an ongoing corruption probe, NBC 4 New York has learned.
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Alex Zdan / New Jersey Online:
Trenton Mayor Tony Mack is arrested by FBI on corruption charge  —  TRENTON - Mayor Tony Mack was arrested this morning at his home by FBI agents on corruption charges linked to $119,000 in bribes for a parking garage project in the city, authorities said.  —  Mack campaign supporter Joseph …
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 …
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
Discussion: The Hill
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Cops: Woman pointed gun at Rep. Trey Gowdy
Discussion: Mediaite and The Raw Story
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Wonkette and Talking Politics
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.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Obstruct and Exploit  —  Does anyone remember the American Jobs Act?  A year ago President Obama proposed boosting the economy with a combination of tax cuts and spending increases, aimed in particular at sustaining state and local government employment.  Independent analysts reacted favorably.
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 …
BuzzFeed:
Forget The Economy — Romney Campaigns On God, NASCAR, And Conservative Values  —  Welcome to the culture war?  “The subject has been the economy, is the economy, and will be the economy,” says Fehrnstrom.  —  Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters  —  BOSTON, Mass. — After a weekend …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads by 5 in Ohio  —  PPP's first post-conventions poll in Ohio finds Barack Obama with a 5 point lead over Mitt Romney, 50-45.  This is the largest lead PPP has found for Obama in an Ohio poll since early May.  Last month Obama led 48-45.  —  Both candidates have seen their images improve …
Richard Eden / Telegraph:
Brad Pitt: Why my mother is wrong about Barack Obama and gay marriage  —  Brad Pitt says gay marriage is ‘inevitable’ as he reaffirms his support for Barack Obama after his mother backed Mitt Romney.  —  Brad Pitt's mother, Jane, threw her support behind Mitt Romney earlier this year …
Charles Mahtesian / Reuters:
9 states where the race will be won  —  The presidential race has narrowed to a core of nine states, a collection of margin-of-error battlegrounds spread across nearly every region.  —  From New Hampshire in the Northeast to Nevada in the Rocky Mountain West, there is little disagreement between …
Reuters:
Movies suffer worst box-office slump in a decade  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The North American box office hit a slump at the weekend, with top earner “The Possession” taking in less than $10 million and what could be the gloomiest overall haul since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
 
 
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Marcus G. Strokes / Twitchy:
Left falls for fake Romney quote: ‘I can relate to black people, my ancestors once owned slaves’
Discussion: Moe Lane
Tom Blumer / PJ Media:
43 Months of Depressing Misery
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Poll: Bachmann in danger
Discussion: Ballot Box and CANNONFIRE
BBC:
Outrage over India cartoonist arrest
Discussion: Guardian
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Obama team accuses Romney, Ryan of ‘ducking and dodging’ tax questions
Discussion: CNN
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Roll Call and CQ Today to Merge Into One Paper
Discussion: Politika and Politico
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Romney exaggerates meager comments on Afghanistan
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The Democrats' GM Fiction
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
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