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What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 2, 2011

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Lucky for President Obama the election is still 14 months away because the economic news couldn’t get much worse, capped with Friday’s report of zero job growth in August. That forced the president to kill plans for tougher clean air rules that critics said were a job killer, but the decision is sure to infuriate voters on his side of the aisle.

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