memeorandum: Poll: Obama opens up four-point lead on Romney nationally (Erik Wasson/Ballot Box)

2:45 AM ET, September 9, 2012

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Alina Selyukh / Reuters:

Obama widens lead over Romney despite jobs data: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Saturday.

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Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:

The GOP convention negative bounce: a final look — (Greetings, readers of Political Wire, Andrew Sullivan, Reddit, DailyKos, ...) — Soon, post-DNC state polls will begin to arrive. So here is the best glimpse we are going to get of the negative post-GOP-convention bounce.

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Erik Wasson / Ballot Box:

Poll: Obama opens up four-point lead on Romney nationally — President Obama's post-convention bounce has grown in a new Gallup poll released Saturday. — Gallup's daily tracking poll has Obama at 49 percent support among registered voters to GOP candidate Mitt Romney's 45 percent.

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 7: Polls Find Hints of Obama Convention Bounce

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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:

Inside story of Obama's struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis — President Obama summoned the top four congressional leaders to the White House on Saturday morning, July 23, 2011. The night before, House Speaker John A. Boehner had withdrawn from negotiations …

Discussion: The Raw Story

Erik Wasson / Ballot Box:

Romney: GOP leaders, Obama made ‘mistake’ agreeing to sequester — GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in an interview on NBC's “Meet the Press” airing Sunday criticizes GOP leaders, including his own running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), for agreeing to the August 2011 debt-ceiling deal.

Discussion: CNN

Erik Wasson / The Hill:

Obama jokes Bill Clinton should be named ‘secretary of explaining stuff’ — President Obama on Saturday hammed it up over former President Clinton's popular convention speech, joking that it overshadowed his own acceptance speech. — At a St. Petersburg, Fla. rally, Obama noted that Clinton “made the case as only he can.”

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CNN:
Obama reelection message hits Florida

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Why Is This Election Close? — For a long time I have been predicting that Mitt Romney would get the Republican nomination, and that he would then win the general election. I have said that the election will be reasonably close-demographic realities dictate that all national elections …

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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Double-Minded Republicans

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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:

Joe Walsh To Sandra Fluke: ‘Get A Job’ (VIDEO) — Add freshman tea party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) to the list of Republicans attacking Sandra Fluke after her appearance at the Democratic National Convention. — At a campaign stop Saturday in Addison, IL, Walsh, who faces a tough reelection battle …

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Mark Steyn / National Review:
A Nation of Sandra Flukes

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Obama tells ‘birther’ joke, asks young boy if he has birth certificate — President Obama poked fun at conspiracy theories which question whether he was born in the United States during a campaign stop in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday. — The president made a stop at a local sports bar …

Discussion: CNN, Politico and Weasel Zippers

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming music service, multiple sources confirm.

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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:

Noise vs. Knowledge: America's Longest Presidential Campaign — Following American presidential elections intelligently is a tricky thing to do. No spectacle anywhere in the world gets as much attention as the world's longest and most grueling marathon. After all, the US president …

Mortimer Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:

Those Jobless Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look — Still above 8%—and closer to 19% in a truer accounting. Here's a plan for improvement. — Don't be fooled by the headline unemployment number of 8.1% announced on Friday. The reason the number dropped to 8.1% from 8.3% in July …

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