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1:55 PM ET, September 6, 2011

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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama ratings sink to new lows as hope fades  —  Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama's inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Larry J. Sabato / Wall Street Journal:
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven States  —  National polls are nice, but Electoral College math is what matters.  —  Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses, primaries—that's the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
They like him  —  There's a deluge of terrible poll numbers for the White House today, but I think this one from our Battleground Poll is the most interesting:  —  Obama receives particularly low marks for his economic stewardship, with only 39 percent saying they approve and 59 percent saying they disapprove.
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Battleground Poll: Obama approval rating down amid deep economic fears  —  The debt-limit showdown and the stalled economy have tarnished President Barack Obama's standing with voters and dampened their optimism about America's future, with nearly three out of four voters now saying the country …
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Obama's Weakness Leading to Republican Overreach: Ramesh Ponnuru
Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Voter Discontent Deepens Ahead of Obama Jobs Plan
Discussion: Don Surber and MarketBeat
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech To Fabricate Call For Violence  —  Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech.
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Welcome, Union Brothers and Sisters  —  In my speech on Saturday in Iowa, I said: “Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses' security and ‘green energy’ giveaways, [Barack Obama] took care of his friends.  And now they're on course to raise a billion dollars …
Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Wasserman Schultz attacks Fox, ducks Hoffa  —  In a heated exchanged, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz repeatedly ducked questions on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday about Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa's call for workers to combat the tea party and “take these son-of-a-bitches out.”
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Teamsters President: ‘No Regrets’ After Fiery Speech Draws Right-Wing Criticism  —  Teamsters union president James Hoffa would say it all again if he could, he told TPM Monday.  —  Hoffa riled up Fox News and the right wing Monday with a Labor Day speech in Detroit in which he called Republican members …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: “Take These Son Of Bitches Out”
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
World Ends Today; Markets to Close Early?  —  The news out of Europe yesterday and this morning somehow puts me in mind of the long opening sequence in the John Landis feature film rendering of The Twilight Zone, in which Dan Ackroyd says to Albert Brooks, “You want to see something really scary?”
Discussion: americanthinker.com
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Courtney Comstock / Business Insider:
Deutsche Bank CEO Just Gave A Terrifying Speech In Frankfurt
Discussion: The Western Experience and The Awl
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
Bring Out Your Dead - UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil War
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Janet Napolitano: Shoes-on flight in sight  —  Air travelers will eventually be able to keep their shoes on to pass through security, but the restrictions on carrying liquids on board are likely to remain in place for some time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a POLITICO Playbook breakfast Tuesday.
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Baldwin slams Washington, Madison in first campaign speech  —  Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) used her first conference call as a Senate candidate as a populist attack on politicians in both Washington, D.C., and Madison, her hometown, accusing them as being “tone-deaf” and ignoring issues important to middle-class voters.
Discussion: The Politico
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Sean Sullivan / Hotline On Call:
Baldwin Enters Wisconsin Senate Race
Discussion: Daily Kos
JSOnline:
Tammy Baldwin enters race for open Senate seat
Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Ron Paul to attack Rick Perry in new ad  —  Ron Paul is taking on Rick Perry in a new television ad blasting the Texas governor for for supporting Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.  —  The 60-second spot, backed by a six-figure ad buy — the first negative ad attacking Perry …
Discussion: CNN, GOP 12, Outside the Beltway and TPMDC
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Michael Isikoff / msnbc.com:
Super PAC backing Rick Perry to spend $55 million to beat rivals, documents reveal
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Leak Offers Look at Efforts by U.S. to Spy on Israel  —  WASHINGTON — When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case.  They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.”
Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
Why are three free-trade deals languishing on Obama's desk?  —  According to the White House, President Obama has been huddling with advisers on a jobs plan he'll present to Congress this week.  One thing he could do immediately is finalize the free-trade deals with Colombia …
Brad Friedman / MoJo Articles:
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar  —  Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of this report, on the GOP superstar who rocked the Koch seminar crowd.  —  “We have Saddam Hussein,” declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama …
Shawn Millerick / New Hampshire Journal:
EXCLUSIVE: Palin's surprise visit delights bride and groom  —  On the eve of Sarah Palin's speech before the Tea Party Express in New Hampshire, the former Alaska Governor shocked diners and delighted wedding guests by making an unannounced visit to The Puritan Backroom restaurant for some of their famous chicken fingers.
Discussion: Don Surber and Conservatives4Palin
Bloomberg:
Obama Mulls Tax Cuts Beyond Republican Plans  —  President Barack Obama may press Congress for tax cuts that would exceed his past proposals as well as some of the offerings from House Republicans to strengthen his hand in talks on measures to boost the U.S. economy, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
POTUS shows some fight in Detroit
New York Times:
Europeans Talk of Sharp Change in Fiscal Affairs  —  As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-nation economic union works.  —  The idea is to create a central financial authority …
Bill Keller / New York Times:
My Unfinished 9/11 Business  —  Ten years after the attacks, we memorialize the loss and we mark the heroism, but there is no organized remembrance of the other feelings that day aroused: the bewilderment, the vulnerability, the impotence.  It may be difficult to recall with our attention …
John Phillips / Car and Driver Blog:
We Interview Vice President Joe Biden: He Owns a '67 Corvette and Loves Smoky Burnouts  —  America's vice president owns a '67 Corvette, and though he's not allowed to drive, he still enjoys the occasional smoky burnout.  —  C/D: You're the son of a car salesman?  —  JB: For 34 years, my dad managed dealerships in Delaware.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi drops the word ‘stimulus’  —  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Democrats have dropped the word stimulus from their vocabulary.  —  Though the House minority leader and her caucus are still pushing an economic stimulus agenda to save the economy, they've radically changed …
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
Arizona's Case Against the Voting Rights Act  —  As ballot restrictions multiply, the state is bringing a lawsuit against the right to vote  —  In the past few years, the right to vote—basic to any real democratic self-government—has become controversial again.
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
About Jeffrey Goldberg  —  Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the Atlantic, is the author of “Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.”  He was formerly a Washington correspondent and a Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker.  —  Robert Gates Says Israel Is an Ungrateful Ally: Jeffrey Goldberg
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
In Jobs Data, “Surprises” Mean Bad News  —  Friday's jobs report was suggestive of an economy at stall speed.  The United States neither added or subtracted jobs in August, according to the initial estimates from government's establishment survey.  The numbers hadn't been good before …
Discussion: Business Insider
 
 
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Fox News:
Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000
Discussion: Business Insider
Kenneth Thomas / Middle Class Political Economist:
Labor Day; U.S. Has Weakest Employment Protections Among OECD and BRICS
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Kimberly Dozier / Associated Press:
At CIA, Petraeus taking up top spy post
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Huntsman vs. ‘sad’ Romney record
Deborah Becker / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Undeclared Elizabeth Warren 9 Points Behind Sen. Brown
Discussion: TPMDC
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Texas Is On Fire
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, CNN and Hullabaloo
Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
Indefinite solitary confinement persists in California prisons
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Hit & Run
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
A Congresswoman's Cause Is Often Her Husband's Gain
Discussion: Ballot Box
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin is in very good shape
Discussion: Salon, Gretawire and The TrogloPundit
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Should Democrats Play by Republican Rules?
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
Lawyer for Levi Aron Defends Her Clients, and Herself
Discussion: New York Magazine
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Courts Put the Brakes on Agenda of G.O.P.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Robert Costa / National Review:
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