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3:10 PM ET, September 3, 2012

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Frank Newport / Gallup:
GOP Convention, Romney Speech Evoke Lukewarm Reactions  —  Speech gets lowest ratings of any Gallup has measured since 1996  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Last week's Republican National Convention had a minimal impact on Americans' self-reported voting intentions, with just about as many saying …
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Frank Newport / Gallup.Com:
No Signs of GOP Convention Bounce Yet  —  The two-week convention phase of this election is now at its midpoint.  We won't know what the impact of the two conventions is until roughly Sept. 7-13, the full week after the Democratic convention closes in Charlotte.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
No bounce for Romney in Florida  —  PPP's newest Florida poll, conducted completely after the Republican convention, finds no change in the Presidential race there.  Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 48-47, exactly as he did on our last poll of the state five weeks ago.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 2: Split Verdict in Polls on Romney Convention Bounce  —  My view is that the consensus of evidence so far points toward Mitt Romney having received a small bounce in the polls of perhaps two or three percentage points from the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla.
Tim Mak / Politico:
Poll:Mitt Romney speech has low impact  —  Americans scored Mitt Romney's GOP convention speech the lowest since Bob Dole's acceptance speech in 1996, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.  —  Following the Republican National Convention in Tampa, 40 percent of voters …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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BuzzFeed:
Democrats Wait, Nervously, On Clinton Speech  —  All other major addresses have been vetted.  —  Obama speaks as Clinton looks on during a campign event in New York on June 4, 2012.  —  Image by JEWEL SAMAD / Getty Images  —  CHARLOTTE, NC — Former President Bill Clinton is slated …
Byron Tau / Politico:
L.A. mayor: 44 continues 42's policies
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Roger L. Simon
Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Obama turns to Bill Clinton, the old pro, to help win reelection
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
National Empty Chair Day (photos from around country)  —  UPDATE - No new submissions being accepted for now, the response was so overwhelming that there's already a huge backlog.  —  Today is the impromptu National Empty Chair Day, which I covered on Saturday night when a reader alerted me to the idea.
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Politico:
Right rallies for ‘Empty Chair Day’  —  The right rallied on Labor Day to celebrate “National Empty Chair Day,” a show of solidarity with Clint Eastwood after his rambling address to an invisible President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention last week.
Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
New N.C. poll gives Romney small lead in presidential race  —  It puts GOP candidate 4 percentage points ahead of Obama  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. Republican Mitt Romney appears to have gotten his bounce from his party's national convention - at least in the state hosting the Democratic convention, according to a poll released Sunday.
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Labor tries to soften image with ‘hug a union thug’ booth in Charlotte
Discussion: Politico, CNN and The Gateway Pundit
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
NC enters convention tied up
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Team Readjusts On ‘Are You Better Off?’  —  After either saying “no” or refusing to give a straight yes or no answer to Sunday show anchors when asked if Americans are better off today than they were four years ago, officials from Team Obama this morning changed their answers and enthusiastically offered a capital-Y “Yes.”
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
RNC to counter Dem convention with focus on Obama economy
Discussion: CNN
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rosie Ruiz Republicans  —  Remember Rosie Ruiz?  In 1980 she was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon — except it turned out that she hadn't actually run most of the race, that she sneaked onto the course around a mile from the end.
Joe Garofoli / blog.sfgate.com:
CA Dem chair John Burton compares GOP to Goebbels for “telling the big lie” (VIDEO)  —  Charlotte - Greetings from the California delegation breakfast at the DNC where before he had a cup of coffee Democratic Party Chair John Burton - much like his ol' palGuv Jerry Brown once did …
Paul Krugman:
Britain's Paul Ryan  —  In a lot of ways George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) is Britain's answer to Paul Ryan.  True, he's a toned-down version — no Ayn Rand, please, we're British — but other aspects of package are there in full force: he's articulate …
John Cusack / truth-out.org:
John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration's War On the Constitution  —  I wrote this a while back after Romney got the nom.  In light of the blizzard of bulls**t coming at us in the next few months I thought I would put it out now.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs
Hedrick Smith / New York Times:
When Capitalists Cared  —  IN the rancorous debate over how to get the sluggish economy moving, we have forgotten the wisdom of Henry Ford.  In 1914, not long after the Ford Motor Company came out with the Model T, Ford made the startling announcement that he would pay his workers the unheard-of wage of $5 a day.
Discussion: Seeing the Forest and Daily Kos
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Obama Plays to Win, in Politics and Everything Else  —  As Election Day approaches, President Obama is sharing a few important things about himself.  He has mentioned more than once in recent weeks that he cooks “a really mean chili.”  He has impressive musical pitch, he told an Iowa audience.
Discussion: USA Today, Bookworm Room and Gawker
 
 
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the …
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
California delegate agrees to leave DNC after disturbance
Discussion: The Hill and blog.sfgate.com
Caitlin McDevitt / Associated Press:
A push for Betty White to address the DNC
Edward M. Smith / Politico:
Why unions matter more than ever
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Isn't Finished
David Weigel / Slate:
DNC 2012: Still Kitschin'
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Credulous fact-checkers fall for 20% scam
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Dem platform calls for gun reforms, but advocates pan language as timid
ABCNEWS:
New Obama Ad Makes Middle-Class Appeal
Discussion: CNN and Politico
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QOTD: Gloria Borger
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