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5:35 PM ET, August 5, 2008

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David Brooks / New York Times:
Where's the Landslide?  —  Why isn't Barack Obama doing better?  Why, after all that has happened, does he have only a slim two- or three-point lead over John McCain, according to an average of the recent polls?  Why is he basically tied with his opponent when his party is so far ahead?
Alex Castellanos / The Huffington Post:
The Molten Core of Barack: Why Obama Can't Win  —  In which science-fiction movie do aliens visit the people of earth and insist, “Take me to your leader”?  If they landed today, America's news media would direct them to Barack Obama, the first American to run a global campaign for President.
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 4-Point Advantage  —  Registered voters prefer Obama to McCain by 47% to 43%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on registered voters' presidential preferences shows Barack Obama with a modest four percentage point advantage over John McCain, 47% to 43%.
Hindrocket / Power Line:   OBAMA SINKING IN POLLS
Peter Hamby / CNN:
McCain makes the rounds at biker rally  —  STURGIS, South Dakota (CNN) - Standing on the main stage at a world famous motorcycle rally in rural South Dakota on Monday, John McCain looked out on a sea of denim-wearing bikers and told them he enjoyed their company much more than that of the 200,000 Germans …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
TAKE MY WIFE, PLEASE!  —  We're trying to find out a bit more about the Bikini Beauty Pageant at the Buffalo Chip, where John McCain showed up and offered up wife Cindy as a contestant.  ESPN says the event is topless and “occasionally bottomless”.  Actually their description is worth quoting in full ...
Discussion: The Caucus and The G Spot
Mary Ann Giordano / The Caucus:
McCain Woos Bikers
Mayhill Fowler / The Huffington Post:
Rolling With McCain In South Dakota
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Michael Grunwald / Time:
The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke  —  How out of touch is Barack Obama?  He's so out of touch that he suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they could save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce.
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Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Obama Pushes Back on GOP Tire Pressure Attack: “It's Like These Guys Take Pride in Being Ignorant”  —  At a town hall meeting in Berea , Ohio, today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, pushed back against the GOP attack on his advice to a voter last week that having a tuned up car and fully inflated tires would help save energy.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama responds: 'It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant"
Discussion: The Swamp
Frank James / The Swamp:   Is McCain's tire-gauge ridicule wrong?
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Fact Check: GOP mocks Obama suggestion to inflate tires …
Discussion: Don Surber
The Politico:
Tenet statement on Suskind  —  Statement by former CIA director George J. Tenet regarding the publication of “The Way of the World,” by Ron Suskind:  —  New York, New York -  —  I have not yet been afforded the opportunity to read Ron Suskind's latest literary effort.
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Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:
Bayh: Obama hasn't asked me to join ticket  —  Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., told The Indianapolis Star today that Sen. Barack Obama has not asked him to be his running mate and that he's not expecting Obama to announce his vice presidential pick when Obama is in Indiana Wednesday.
Discussion: TIME.com
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CAN TAKE THE BLOG FROM THE BOY...  The blogless life was going okay for Matt Yglesias until he ran across the Pollack, O'Hanlon, and Biddle op-ed from Foreign Affairs and got on Gchat: … That guy should get a blog.  Possibly at the Center for American Progress.
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Ira Teinowitz / AdAge:
Going for Gold?  McCain Makes $6 Million Olympic Buy  —  Tops Obama Buy by $1 Million  —  WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is buying into NBC Universal's Olympics coverage.  —  The McCain campaign made a last-minute $6 million ad buy …
Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
Campaign 08: Accused of Acting White to Win  —  Last week, I reported for the Huffington Post that country singer Toby Keith had performed a pro-lynching anthem on the Colbert Report, and would be playing the same song soon on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and a slew of nationally televised talk shows.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Salon Radio: Rep. Rush Holt on anthrax  —  (updated below)  —  Rep. Rush Holt represents the Central New Jersey district where at least one of the anthrax letters was sent.  Rep. Holt's Congressional office was one of the few in which traces of anthrax were found.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Los Angeles Times
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain takes populist turn, offers new theme in ad  —  A week after airing a mocking ad about Barack Obama, John McCain's campaign is going up with a wholly different commercial aimed at reinforcing the GOP nominee's “maverick” reputation.  —  Obama's name is not mentioned once …
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The Politico:
Pelosi: At-risk Dems back drilling  —  California Democrat Nancy Pelosi may be trying to save the planet — but the rank and file in her party increasingly are just trying to save their political hides when it comes to gas prices as Republicans apply more and more rhetorical muscle.
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
McCain's Problem Isn't Bush  —  When John McCain stands before the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis one month from now, the American people will see more than a United States senator.  They will see a man who served his nation as a young officer and suffered for it as a prisoner of war.
Discussion: Commentary and MSNBC
The Independent:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: His final interview  —  Last summer, as his health began to fail, he looked back on his extraordinary life with Christian Neef and Matthias Schepp  —  Q: Alexander Isayevich, when we came in we found you at work.  It seems that even at the age of 88 you still feel this need to work …
Discussion: Eunomia
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
My Bet With Francis Fukuyama  —  No matter what happens in November, the war in Iraq will not be brought to an end by either Barack Obama or John McCain.  The war in Iraq is over.  We've won.  —  Exhibit A for my claim: Francis Fukuyama has agreed to write me a check for $100.
 
 
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
It's Not Oil Supply — It's the High Fear Hype!
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Deacon / Power Line:
MINNESOTA DREAMING  —  Scott and John do most of the original reporting …
Discussion: Hot Air
Fox News:
Tyson Plant Drops Labor Day for Muslim Holiday
Discussion: The Corner and Unfogged
James Glanz / New York Times:
Iraq Government Has $79 Billion in Unspent Cash
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
“The Next Cheney”  —  That's the name of the DNC's website devoted …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Race-card flap reopens Clinton camp wounds
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
GOP: Oil markets ‘responding’ to our protest
Keith Olbermann / Daily Kos:
Dana Milbank And Unhappy Endings
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Syrian General Who Oversaw Arms Shipments Assassinated
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Critical of McCain, Obama quiet on own energy vote
Austin American-Statesman:
Former GOP state representative asks Libertarians to drop out of races
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Foolocracy
Steve Ralls / The Huffington Post:
A Six-Figure Solution Missing One Common-Sense Addition
Johanna Neuman / The LA Times President Bush Blog:
Presidential hug for controversial senator
Jonah Goldberg / USA Today:
Obama, the postmodernist  —  In the Illinois senator's world …
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Obama: ‘National Priority’
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G.O.P. Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States
 

 
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