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4:05 PM ET, September 11, 2012

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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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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Gets Three-Point Convention Bounce  —  Now leads Romney by six percentage points, 50% to 44%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama got a modest bump in support immediately after last week's Democratic National Convention, with 50% of registered voters now saying they would vote …
Rasmussen Reports:
Job Creation?  47% Trust Obama, 45% Romney  —  Following another dismal jobs report, voters overwhelmingly rate job creation as important to their vote but are almost evenly divided when it comes to which presidential candidate they trust more on the issue.
Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
Ten takeaways from the new Post/ABC poll  —  1) President Obama appears to have received a large post-convention bounce.  In the last Post/ABC poll, published Aug. 27, Mitt Romney was leading Obama among registered voters 47 percent to 46 percent.  In the newest poll, Obama leads 50 percent to Romney's 44 percent, a seven point swing.
Evan Vucci / ABCNEWS:
Obama Gains a Convention Boost - But Not Among Likely Voters
tipponline:
Race Tightens As Obama Advantage Narrows To 2 Points
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 …
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:
Discussion: The Next Web and Daily Kos
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Romney's Osama bin Laden problem
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.
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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Kara Spak / Chicago Sun Times:
Poll: 47% of Chicago registered voters support teachers in strike  —  Just under half of Chicago's registered voters support the Chicago Public Teachers strike in a 500 person poll taken Monday, and nearly three-quarters of those polled say Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing an average, below average or poor job in handing the labor dispute.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
In Standoff, Latest Sign of Unions Under Siege
Chicago Tribune:
Another day in the park as Chicago teachers strike enters 2nd day
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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Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Cheney Smears Obama On 9/11, Claims He Took ‘Sole Credit’ For Bin Laden's Death
Discussion: Politico
Byron Tau / Politico:
Cheney knocks Obama on bin Laden, intel briefings
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Moody's: Congress must reach fiscal deal to avert downgrade  —  Moody's Investors Service warned Tuesday that Congress will need to strike a deal on the “fiscal cliff” to avoid a second downgrade to the nation's credit rating.  —  The rating agency said that budget negotiations in 2013 …
Discussion: CNN and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Economy Watch:
Moody's warns it will cut US bond rating if budget talks fail
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Moody's issues ‘fiscal cliff’ warning
Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:
In harsh rebuttal to Clinton, PM says those who don't set red lines for Iran have no right to keep Israel from attacking  —  Two days after secretary rules out Iran deadline, Netanyahu says: ‘The world tells Israel to wait because there is still time.  And I ask: Wait for what?  Until when?’
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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.
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.
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 …
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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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
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Jane Perlez / New York Times:
China Accuses Japan of Stealing Disputed Islands
Discussion: BBC, Newsy and Via Meadia
Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Why Romney's Money Advantage is No Game-Changer
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Corporate-Led Education Reform Movement Ignores Solvable Problems to Carry Out Its Agenda
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Biden enjoys colorful barbecue with Shanksville firefighters
Discussion: CNN
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
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