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Gov. Rick Perry, President Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney

Undeniably unpopular president still leads polls

Alex Pareene
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi listens during the opening session of the 12th African Union Summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa in this February 2, 2009 file photograph. Explosions and gunfire rocked Tripoli on Saturday night (August 20 ,2011) after days of battlefield defeats left Muammar Gaddafi's government and troops penned ever more tightly in the besieged capital. The scale of the unrest was unclear, but speculation was rife that Gaddafi's 41-year rule was close to collapse. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna/Files (ETHIOPIA - Tags: HEADSHOT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY) (© Antony Njuguna / Reuters)

Trita Parsi
U.S. conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck address the crowd during his "Restoring Courage" rally in Jerusalem August 24, 2011

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(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (Paul Sakuma)

Steve Jobs' extraordinary Apple saga ends

Andrew Leonard
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney enjoys the fruits of elite immunity

Glenn Greenwald
Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaks to members of the South Carolina GOP during a lunch in Columbia, S.C., Friday, August 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick) (AP)

The biggest threat to Rick Perry: Rick Perry

Steve Kornacki
A U.S. Park Police officer handcuffs and arrests a protestor over a proposed pipeline to bring tar sands oil to the U.S. from Canada, in front of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

Bill McKibben
Rebel fighters celebrate as they stand on top of the monument inside the main Moammar Gadhafi compound in Bab Al-Aziziya in Tripoli, LIbya, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The rebels say they have now taken control of nearly all of Tripoli, but sporadic gunfire could still be heard Wednesday, and Gadhafi loyalists fired shells and assault rifles at fighters who had captured the Libyan leader's personal compound one day earlier. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) (AP)

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

Alex Pareene
In an image provided by NOAA and made by the GOES East satellite Hurricane Irene is shown as it move over the Bahama Thursday Aug. 25, 2011. Irene could hit North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday afternoon with winds around 115 mph (185 kph) and it's predicted to go up the East Coast, dumping rain from Virginia to New York City. (AP Photo/NOAA) (AP)

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Tim Cook, Apple's newly minted CEO

Peter Finocchiaro
Mining trucks carry loads of oil laden sand in Alberta, Canada.

Andrew Leonard
Rick Perry

Gene Lyons
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Politico readers weigh in on civil rights painting

Alex Pareene

Steve Kornacki
Coca-Cola employee Farrah Deonarine of Weston, Fla., right, passes out forms at a jobs fair hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus in Miami, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The fair is aimed at lowering the especially high rate of unemployment in the black community. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (AP)

Stephen Ohlemacher

GOP blogger's bosses are friends with George Allen

Alex Pareene

David Sirota
A Jewish settler holds Israeli flags as he protests in support of the Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

When American citizens become Israeli settlers

Justin Elliott
Pedestrians start their morning under the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras in Times Square in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2011. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the New York Police Department has become one of the country's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, one that operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (AP)

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks during the Iowa GOP/Fox News Debate at the CY Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, Pool) (AP)

President Ron Paul: How bad could it be?

Alex Pareene
An image released by the NOAA made from the GEOS East satellite shows Hurricane Irene on Aug. 24, 2011 as it moves northwest from the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Federal officials have warned Irene could cause flooding, power outages or worse all along the East Coast as far north as Maine, even if it stays offshore. (AP Photo/NOAA) (AP)

Irene becomes Cat. 3 storm on way to East Coast

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