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1:15 PM 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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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for an Anti-Incumbent Wave  —  Poll Shows Republicans Benefit From Fears About Economy; Democrats Need to Persuade Unenthusiastic Backers to Vote  —  This is about the time when Democrats thought—or perhaps hoped—the political clouds that have hung over them all year would begin to lift.
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 …
The Huffington Post:
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE)  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  With polls and prognosticators predicting a massive Republican rout — and the likely election of uncompromising, out-of-the-mainstream conservatives — in the fall …
Discussion: The Plum Line and The Fix
The Note:
The Firewall: Democrats Eye Must-Win Seats
Discussion: Ballot Box and No Left Turns
Dylan Loewe / The Huffington Post:
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Unlikely battleground of Wisconsin reflects Democrats' vulnerability …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
New polls point to tsunami
Discussion: FrumForum
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 …
CNN:
Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns  —  (CNN) — The U.S. commander in Afghanistan has criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration “could cause significant problems” for American troops overseas.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
Discussion: National Review and Infowars
Wall Street Journal:
‘Rhymes With Fagin’  —  Time magazine adds its voice to the chorus of those attempting to delegitimize the Jewish state.  —  If you're a reader of a certain age, you might understand the headline.  —  In May 1977, when Menachem Begin was elected Israel's prime minister …
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Robert Reich:
Why Obama Is Proposing Whopping Corporate Tax Cuts, and Why He's Wrong  —  President Obama reportedly will propose two big corporate tax cuts this week.  —  One would expand and make permanent the research and experimentation tax credit, at a cost of about $100 billion over the next ten years.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Peretz: Muslims Are Indifferent to Human Life and Therefore Unworthy of First Amendment Protection  —  New Republic Editor in Chief Martin Peretz: … I for one am thrilled that the First Amendment gives Peretz the right to offer his racist views up for public consumption …
Howard Kurtz:
Appeasing the Google Gods  —  I can no longer file a story in our computer system without filling out a box, a small gray square that may well determine the future of serious journalism.  —  The box is supposed to contain words and phrases that will help me reel you in.
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Economy  —  How trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus produced a 1.6% recovery.  —  So two months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he's rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy.
David Weigel / Slate:
Can the Tea Party win in Delaware the way it won in Alaska?  —  WILMINGTON, Del.—Mike Castle is in his element.  It's Saturday and Delaware's only representative in the U.S. House has positioned himself at the entrance to the Arden Fair, a 103-year-old celebration of a left-leaning artist community …
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Scrubbing Santorum  —  Why Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum can't beat his Google problem.  —  Post Comment  —  Rick Santorum would very much like to be president.  For the past few years, he has been diligently appearing at the sorts of conservative events—the Values Voters Summit …
Discussion: Pam's House Blend and GOP 12
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 and The BLT
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.
Paul Krugman:
Infrastructure  —  Some bleary-eyed thoughts from Japan on the reported administration proposal for $50 billion in new spending:  —  1. It's a good idea  —  2. It's much too small  —  3. It won't pass anyway — which makes you wonder why the administration didn't propose a bigger plan …
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits  —  Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms.  Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space.
Ezra Klein:
What we lost when we lost our factories  —  Daniel Gros — not to be confused with Daniel Gross — has a sobering essay arguing that, in the long-term, America does have a skills problem: We need to eventually refocus our economy around exports rather than credit-fueled housing-and-tech bubbles, but that's easier said than done.
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Rome is Burning  —  There is a critical point that I fear the commentariat is just not getting.  In my darker moments I fear that some of my fellow economists aren't getting it either but we aren't going to go there.  —  Look at these two graphs because they tell you the fundamental problem in America today:
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Eschaton
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Aren't Running From Health Care.  But What Are They Running On?  —  It's clear that Republican candidates for Congress expect to gain traction from the health care bill that Democrats passed this year, and that most polls show at least a plurality of the country remains opposed to.
Ezra Klein:
Don't cut Social Security, cont'd  —  One point I didn't get into my column as clearly as I would've liked is the degree to which “raising the retirement age” is a way of saying “cutting Social Security benefits.”  So let's do it here.  —  There are two retirement ages in Social Security …
 
 
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