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9:30 AM ET, September 7, 2010

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Washington Post:
Republicans making gains against Democrats ahead of midterm elections  —  Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.  Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Revolt Against Status Quo Gives Republicans Record Lead in 2010 Midterms  —  ABC News-Washington Post Poll: Dissatisfaction with Federal Government at Highest Level in 18 Years  —  Swelling economic discontent has pushed dissatisfaction with the federal government to its highest level in 18 years …
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Clear GOP advantage ahead of midterms  —  Republicans have a nine-point edge among those considered likely voters  —  A combination of sky-high GOP enthusiasm, a deep sense of pessimism about the country's direction and dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama's stewardship …
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for an Anti-Incumbent Wave
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Several polls suggest Republicans have momentum as election season begins
Discussion: The Note
The Huffington Post:
A Forecast of the 2010 House Election Outcome
CNN:
CNN Poll: GOP up 46 to 43 percent over Democrats on economy
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
The Huffington Post:
Political Scientists Forecast Big Losses For Democrats In 2010 Midterm Elections
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Obama: Critics ‘talk about me like a dog’  —  President Obama strayed from his prepared remarks at a Labor Day rally Monday to accused his opponents of talking about him “like a dog.”  —  Obama was in Milwaukee to speak at the Milwaukee Laborfest, attended by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
‘They talk about me like a dog’  —  MILWAUKEE - Two years after appearing here on Labor Day to kick off the final stretch of his historic campaign, President Obama returned Monday to speak to union members, in a starkly different political environment.  —  The Democrats, on the ascent at Obama's 2008 …
CNN:
TRENDING: Obama: They talk about me like a dog  —  (CNN) - Those following President Obama's prepared remarks during a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monday were thrown a bit of a curveball when it came to a description of his critics:  —  “Some powerful interests who had been dominating …
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Pres. Obama On DC Opponents: “They Talk About Me Like A Dog”
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
John / Power Line:
It Pays To Be Crazed  —  A church in Florida is planning to burn copies of the Koran on September 11.  That proposal has been widely condemned, and now General Petraeus has entered the fray, warning that such a protest by the church could endanger American servicemen: … This strikes me as troubling.
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Wall Street Journal:
Petraeus Condemns U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Qurans
Peter Orszag / New York Times:
One Nation, Two Deficits  —  The nation faces a nasty dual deficit problem: a painful jobs deficit in the near term and an unsustainable budget deficit over the medium and long term.  This month, the Senate will be debating an issue with significant implications for both …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Push Tax Break  —  Businesses Would Be Allowed to Write Off New Investment in Plants, Equipment  —  President Barack Obama, in one of his most dramatic gestures to business, will propose that companies be allowed to more quickly write off 100% of their new investment in plants and equipment through 2011.
Discussion: Commentary, USA Today and FrumForum
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama to Propose Tax Write-Off for Capital Investments
Discussion: The Blaze, Reuters and Pajamas Media
Ben White / The Politico:
Obama seeks biz equipment write-off
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Polarization of Supreme Court Is Reflected in Justices' Clerks  —  WASHINGTON — Each year, 36 young lawyers obtain the most coveted credential in American law: a Supreme Court clerkship.  Clerking for a justice is a glittering capstone on a résumé that almost always includes outstanding grades …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:   Appeals Court in Atlanta Again Rejects Racial Discrimination Claim
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket  —  TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks.  The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street.
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
For the Jews in Israel, Money Trumps All?  —  I know it's commonplace to read in the latest issue of Time or Newsweek that Obama is a god, that Islamophobic Americans are collectively prejudiced against Muslims, that the response after 9/11 was overblown and unnecessary (over 30 subsequent terrorist plots …
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Wall Street Journal:
‘Rhymes With Fagin’  —  Time magazine adds its voice to the chorus …
Discussion: Power Line and FrumForum
Michael Moore / MichaelMoore.com:
Happy F**kin' Labor Day!  —  Dear Rahm Emanuel:  —  Happy F**kin' Labor Day!  I read this week that — according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration's former “Car Czar” — during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost if GM …
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Rising to the Occasion  —  On Labor Day afternoon in Milwaukee, President Obama finally began to vigorously push the kind of high-profile, rebuild-America infrastructure campaign that is absolutely essential if there is to be any real hope of putting Americans back to work and getting the economy …
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Obama, in campaign mode, defends policies and offers new proposal …
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
New York's John Hall: A Rocky Reelection Road for a Rock Legend  —  THIELLS, N.Y. — John Hall — once the bare-chested guitarist for the 1970s band Orleans and the only rock musician ever elected to Congress as a Democrat — was asked whether his entertainment background helped inoculate …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Audit finds Sharpton's nonprofit on brink  —  Tweet  —  An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton's National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping — and may not even survive, The Post has learned.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
 
 
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Howard Kurtz:
Appeasing the Google Gods
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Barbour, Daniels Talk About How Republicans Are Going to Win
Discussion: The Hill and Ben Smith's Blog
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Rep. Childers has edge on GOP challenger in poll
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Raw Story
Guardian:
NoW inquiry halted to spare police
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Israel: “Rape by deception” …
New York Times:
Iran Remains Defiant, Nuclear Agency Says
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Chief of ABC News Is Resigning
 

 
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