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Washington Post:
Among likely voters, Obama-Romney close — Last week's Democratic National Convention helped President Obama improve his standing against Republican Mitt Romney, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, but did little to reduce voter concern about his handling of the economy.
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Dean Chambers / Examiner:
Mitt Romney would lead eight in unskewed data from newest CNN/ORC poll — Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands with a NASCAR fan during a rain delay before the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway on September 8, 2012.
Rasmussen Reports:
Job Creation? 47% Trust Obama, 45% Romney
Job Creation? 47% Trust Obama, 45% Romney
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Outside the Beltway, Taylor Marsh and Althouse
Evan Vucci / ABCNEWS:
Obama Gains a Convention Boost - But Not Among Likely Voters
Obama Gains a Convention Boost - But Not Among Likely Voters
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The Caucus, Washington Post and Mother Jones
tipponline:
Race Tightens As Obama Advantage Narrows To 2 Points
Race Tightens As Obama Advantage Narrows To 2 Points
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FiveThirtyEight, Examiner, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller, Prairie Weather, Weasel Zippers and GOP 12
Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Americans Pick President Obama Over Mitt Romney for Dinner Date
Poll: Americans Pick President Obama Over Mitt Romney for Dinner Date
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Taking Note, Politico, Mediaite and Jammie Wearing Fools
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
Poll Shows Obama Getting Lowest Jewish Support Since Carter
Poll Shows Obama Getting Lowest Jewish Support Since Carter
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Washington Monthly, Israel Matzav and americanthinker.com
Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
Ten takeaways from the new Post/ABC poll
Ten takeaways from the new Post/ABC poll
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New York Magazine, Examiner and The Reality-Based Community
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
How Mitt Romney Is Losing The Debate Expectations Game — He's practicing hard, his aides say! Obama's camp pretends to panic. — Romney with Senator Rob Portman, who is playing President Barack Obama in debate prep, earlier this month. — Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters
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Reuters:
The Kerry-ization of Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney is getting the full John Kerry treatment on national security — and some top Republicans are alarmed by what they see as his ham-handed response to it. — Romney — whose convention speech didn't include a salute to the troops or a reference to Afghanistan …
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Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller
Jim VandeHei / Reuters:
GOP to Mitt Romney: You're so vague — Leading conservatives are offering blunt advice to Mitt Romney: Quit ducking details, start engaging in a real and specific war of ideas with President Barack Obama — or lose. — Here's just a sampling of the past 24 hours:
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Daily Kos
BuzzFeed:
Obama's Plan To Use National Security To Beat Romney — Obama's decision to play offense on foreign policy marks a “real, significant shift” in our politics, says an Obama advisor. Just another “shiny object,” a Romneyite fires back. — One of the most aggressive parts …
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Wonkette, Daily Kos, Marbury and Taylor Marsh
Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings — IT was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history. — On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda.
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ABCNEWS:
Paul Ryan on Chicago Teachers' Strike: ‘We Stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’ — PORTLAND, Ore. — Paul Ryan crossed party lines and voiced support for one of President Obama's biggest backers today, saying, “We stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel” in his fight with Chicago's teachers …
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Rick Perlstein / Salon:
Stand against Rahm! — First Wisconsin. Then Occupy. Now Chicago. The teachers' strike is the next chapter in the fight against plutocracy — CHICAGO — I was awoken by honking car horns yesterday morning, and couldn't have been happier for the fact.
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Taylor Marsh, Yahoo! News, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
In Standoff, Latest Sign of Unions Under Siege
In Standoff, Latest Sign of Unions Under Siege
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ABCNEWS, CBS Chicago, Taylor Marsh, Jared Bernstein and Via Meadia
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Students are victims in Chicago fight over clout
Students are victims in Chicago fight over clout
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Weekly Standard, Best of the Ed Blogs, EAGnews.org, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Illinois Review
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Cheney responds to Obama's reportedly poor intelligence briefings attendance — Former Vice President Dick Cheney took a shot at President Barack Obama late Monday night after it was reported that the president has attended fewer than half of his daily intelligence briefings.
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Cheney knocks Obama on bin Laden, intel briefings
Cheney knocks Obama on bin Laden, intel briefings
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Little Green Footballs and The Daily Caller
Barak Ravid / Associated Press:
Netanyahu: Those that refuse to set red lines for Iran can't give Israel red light — Netanyahu launches unprecedented attack on U.S. government; diplomats tell AP that IAEA has new intelligence that Iran advanced its work on nuclear warhead. — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Photo by Olivier Fitoussi
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: New intelligence on Iran nuke work
AP Exclusive: New intelligence on Iran nuke work
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emptywheel and The Daily Beast
Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Parents of SEAL Team Six member say unit endangered by Obama administration statements — Identifying the Special Operations Force behind the Usama bin Laden raid amounted to placing a target on the back of the team members as well as their families, according to the parents of Aaron Vaughn …
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Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Chris Brown Tattoos An Image of a Battered Woman On His Neck — Chris Brown, having graduated from tossing chairs at windows after interviewers have the temerity to ask him about his battering of then-girlfriend Rihanna, has apparently decided that violence against women will be his new hallmark.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Biden recalls own loss while marking ‘bittersweet’ 9/11 anniversary — Vice President Joe Biden drew on the sorrow of his own personal losses as he addressed the memorial marking 11 years since United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field. — “It is a bittersweet moment …
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Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Jeremy Peters / The Caucus:
A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule — Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short,” was granted extraordinary access to President Obama for his latest article in Vanity Fair. — But with that access came one major condition.
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Margot Roosevelt / Reuters:
Southern whites troubled by Romney's wealth, religion — (Reuters) - Sheryl Harris, a voluble 52-year-old with a Virginia drawl, voted twice for George W. Bush. Raised Baptist, she is convinced — despite all evidence to the contrary — that President Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim.
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New York Magazine
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview — At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …
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