- Labor day recap: Obama channeled Truman, Elizabeth Warren all but announced in Massachusetts, Andrew Cuomo defined the President’s “enemies,” Ohio kept its eye on collective bargaining, Hoffa got worked up and the GOP field worked to prove its conservative cred in South Carolina.
- Yet more polls find pessimism running high and disillusionment with Obama.
- Jon Chait charges the left with magical thinking, mostly unrealistic notions about the power of the presidency.
- The greens aren’t happy.
- Fratricide season has begun in the Republican presidential primary.
- Romney prepares to unveil his 59-point jobs plan, which includes something called the “Reagan Economic Zone.”
- Jim DeMint gives a qualified defense of Commonwealth Care.
- Michael Isikoff gets hold of a detailed planning document from Perry’s SuperPAC.
- Perry has now doubled Romney up in national polling.
- Bachmann reshuffles staff at the top of her campaign.
- The trial of former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer could bring heat to plenty of Sunshine State pols.
- And the Pentagon’s not-so-secure new office complex.