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9:50 AM ET, September 16, 2015

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Former Romney Adviser Stuart Stevens on Loss, the GOP's Race Problem, and Why Trump Won't Win — “For Donald Trump to win, everything we know about politics has to be wrong. And I don’t think it is.” — Shares — Stuart Stevens is the type of Renaissance man seemingly conjured …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Progress Pond

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Carson closes in on Trump in NH poll — Ben Carson is catching up to Donald Trump in the race for next year's GOP presidential nomination, according to a new poll in New Hampshire. — The WBUR survey released on Wednesday said that Trump now leads the retired neurosurgeon by just 4 points in the Granite State.

Discussion: Prairie Weather and Washington Post

Fred Thys / WBUR:

WBUR Poll: Close N.H. Race Between Trump, Carson — Businessman Donald Trump leads retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, 22 percent to 18 percent, according to WBUR's first poll of the race. — Trump's lead is within the survey's margin of error of 4.9 percent.

Discussion: Political Wire

Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Club for Growth launches campaign against Trump

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Burning Platform, Booman Tribune and Washington Monthly

Avi Selk / Dallas Morning News:

Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ — IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.

Discussion: Washington Post, WFAA-TV, Jezebel, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Balloon Juice, The Verge, Boing Boing, Guardian, Business Insider, Raw Story, Hit & Run, Addicting Info, angry asian man and Althouse

Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business:

Joe Biden Decries Donald Trump's ‘Sick Message’ on Hispanic Immigrants — Vice President Joe Biden took aim at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday, blasting the real estate mogul for “absolutely denigrating an entire group of people.”

Discussion: ABC News, The Hill, Reuters, Taylor Marsh, The Gateway Pundit and Business Insider

CNN:
Joe Biden: Donald Trump's ‘sick’ message is xenophobic

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, BillMoyers.com and Business Insider

Paul Singer / OnPolitics:
If Donald Trump wins, what country would you flee to?

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Luminoso Blog and The Hill

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump, protesters go big in Texas

Discussion: Hot Air, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Texas Observer, ThinkProgress, Texas Monthly, The Huffington Post, Instapundit, New York Times, The Hill and CNN

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

McConnell threatens to bring Israel amendment into Iran debate — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is warning Democrats that if they block a resolution disapproving the Iran nuclear deal, he will force a vote on a contentious amendment related to Israel and U.S. prisoners.

Discussion: Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Daily Kos

Manu Raju / CNN:
Conservatives press GOP leaders on Planned Parenthood

Discussion: RedState

Politico:
House GOP obsessed with Boehner's future

Discussion: The Hill, BREITBART.COM and Daily Kos

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House open to short-term funding bill to prevent shutdown

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Bobby Jindal / CNN:

Conservatives need to say what we are thinking: Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped. Failure to speak out against Trump is an endorsement of Clinton. — We do need to Make America Great Again. We do need to burn down Washington. We do need to eradicate political correctness.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Daily Mail, Talking Points Memo, BobbyJindal.com, Mediaite and ImmigrationProf Blog

Kory Grow / Rolling Stone:

Roger Waters on Donald Trump: ‘He Is Pig-Ignorant’ — Pink Floyd co-founder calls presidential candidate the “epitome of anything that might be considered bad” — With a GOP debate scheduled for Wednesday, Roger Waters won't be throwing his support behind Donald Trump.

Discussion: Addicting Info and Raw Story

Wall Street Journal:

Cable TV News Binges on Trump Coverage — CNN, more than rivals, focuses on the candidate; all get a ratings boost — Cable news can't get enough of Donald Trump. — Since announcing his run for president in June, the real-estate developer and reality-TV star has dominated coverage of the 2016 race …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Associated Press

BBC:

Intelligent machines: Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys — A campaign has been launched calling for a ban on the development of robots that can be used for sex. — Such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable, said campaign leader Dr Kathleen Richardson.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Daily Mail, NBC News, Mediaite, The Other McCain and The Daily Caller

Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Having sex with robots is really, really bad, Campaign Against Sex Robots says

Discussion: Hit & Run and Althouse

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Study: 53 percent of Jeb Bush's tax cuts would go to the top 1 percent — Jeb Bush's tax plan would cut individual income taxes for almost all Americans, but would not do so equally. In fact, according to a new analysis from Citizens for Tax Justice, more than half the dollar value …

Discussion: Addicting Info

Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
No, Bernie Sanders is not going to bankrupt America to the tune of $18 trillion

Discussion: Addicting Info, Politico, The Stranger …, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Questions and Observations, Daily Kos and American Spectator

Mike Allen / Politico:

POLITICO Playbook, presented by Qualcomm - GAME DAY! We're all watching Jeb v. Trump - RAND to pummel Trump as ‘a fake conservative’ - Will Carly rise? - Can Walker, Christie break through? - ROB O'DONNELL to White House - AN APP TO TRY: Sidewire — Good Wednesday morning.

Discussion: Washington Post and CNN

Biz Carson / Business Insider:

FINALLY: You'll soon be able to ‘dislike’ things on Facebook, says Mark Zuckerberg — Mark Zuckerberg announced today that Facebook is finally working on a “Dislike” button. — " I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years. Today is a special day because today …

Discussion: Guardian, Mashable, Engadget, abc7ny.com and CBS Detroit

Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Facebook Says It's Introducing a ‘Dislike’ Button

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Re/code, US News, Mashable, Guardian and Balloon Juice

Author Earnings:

AAP Reports Own Shrinking Market Share, Media Mistakes It for Flat US Ebook Market — In the 18 months between February 2014 and September 2015, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), whose 1200 members include the “Big Five”: — Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette —

Discussion: Moe Lane and Vox Popoli

Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:

Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, and Scottish Nationalists — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Donald Trump, the brash, often incoherent leftist-turned-Republican, leads all polls for the GOP presidential nomination. Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist buddy of Hamas who wants …

Discussion: Erick on the Radio