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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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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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NPR, Crooks and Liars, New York Times, Diane Ravitch's blog, emptywheel, Taylor Marsh, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Unfogged
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 …
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, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! and americanthinker.com
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
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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Hit & Run, newsfeed.time.com, Weekly Standard and Jammie Wearing Fools
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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Reuters, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Politico, Hot Air, Althouse, Riehl World News, The PJ Tatler, The Lonely Conservative, New York Magazine and Macsmind
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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
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
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BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Memo: Don't Panic
Romney Campaign Memo: Don't Panic
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The Fix, The Other McCain, Wonkette and Talking Politics
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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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 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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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 …
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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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Romney: Sorry, No Preexisting Conditions Guarantee Unless You're Already Insured
Romney: Sorry, No Preexisting Conditions Guarantee Unless You're Already Insured
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americanthinker.com, Newsy, Blue Arkansas and Hot Air
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Re: Romney and Obamacare
Re: Romney and Obamacare
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Washington Post, ABCNEWS, Wonkette, ThinkProgress, Paul Krugman, BuzzFeed, The Lonely Conservative, Swampland, New York Magazine, The Reality-Based Community, Rumproast, Pirate's Cove, Hit & Run, US Politics, The Daily Dish, Bark Bark Woof Woof, First Read, The Huffington Post, The Incidental Economist, Mother Jones, Towleroad News #gay, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite and Marginal Revolution
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
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 …
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, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, National Review, Washington Examiner and Israel Matzav
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
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, Ballot Box, The Political Carnival, PoliticusUSA and CANNONFIRE
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 …
Mark Halperin / The Page:
The Troubles — The danger for the Romney campaign right now is the congealing conventional wisdom that the Republican emerged from Tampa and Charlotte meaningfully behind and is now facing some tough Electoral College reality. — This CW is driven by the post-convention polls showing …
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CNN, Daily Kos, Reuters, The Atlantic Online, USA Today, The Political Carnival, The Maddow Blog, Fox News, First Read, Wall Street Journal and Hullabaloo
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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Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, New York Times, The Raw Story, Gawker, The Verge, WJLA-TV and Outside the Beltway