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National Enquirer:
PALIN WAR: TEEN PREGO CRISIS — Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue. — Palin planned for the wedding …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms — ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
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Matt Welch / Reason:
The View on Palin from an Alaskan Anti-Real ID Activist and Democrat — I ran into anti-Real ID activist Bill Scannell, “the man who helped kill CAPPS II,” and asked him what intelligence he can give us about Sarah Palin, governor of the state he's lived in for the past several years.
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The “Eagleton Scenario” — Barring a dramatic reversal, Sarah Palin will formally become the Republican vice presidential nominee Wednesday night. Since Friday, when the pick was announced, news surrounding Palin has been almost uniformly negative: the initial focus on her lack …
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Rachel D'Oro / Associated Press:
Bristol Palin's boyfriend heads to convention — WASILLA - The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. — Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
As the GOP turns: Sarah Palin's daughter's baby's father to attend convention — ST. PAUL — Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of the pregnant 17-year-old Bristol Palin, plans to join the family at the Republican Party's nomination here of mom and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for vice president.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed “Hatred For The American …
Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed “Hatred For The American …
Erick Erickson / www.redstate.com:
BREAKING: Democrats Release Sarah Palin's Social Security Number
BREAKING: Democrats Release Sarah Palin's Social Security Number
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Kate Klonick / TPMMuckraker:
Todd Palin Was Registered Member of Alaska Independence Party Until 2002
Todd Palin Was Registered Member of Alaska Independence Party Until 2002
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate …
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Lindsey Ellerson / Live Blogging:
How Palin is Playing in the Supermarket Aisles — Rick Klein, from ABC's The Note, reports: Let's say you don't read The New York Times or The Washington Post (or The Note, for that matter). Let's say you don't follow the big political blogs and you're not obsessed with every turn of the screw of this fascinating presidential race.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Media Descend to a New Low — The smearing of Sarah Palin gets uglier. — Time's Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner. That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig.
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek Blogs:
Bushies Come to Palin's Aid — The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor prospective vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues, write her speeches and begin preparing her for her all important October debate against Sen. Joe Biden.
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama to Appear on Fox on Thursday Night — CHICAGO — Before Senator John McCain delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Senator Barack Obama will make a marquee appearance of his own. — Call it counter-intuitive. He will appear on “The O'Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.
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Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
Tuesdays with Rupert — Since buying The Wall Street Journal …
Tuesdays with Rupert — Since buying The Wall Street Journal …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
McCain Manager: ‘This Election is Not About Issues’ — Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning. — “This election is not about issues,” said Davis.
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Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 9/2 — It looks like Barack Obama may have gotten his convention bounce after all: — A large number of national polls have come out within the past 24-48 hours, most of which had conducted a survey close enough to the beginning of the Democratic convention to provide for a direct comparison.
Think Progress:
Infuriated About Tough CNN Interview, McCain Cancels Larry King Appearance — Yesterday, Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds appeared on CNN for an interview with Campbell Brown. Brown was tough on Bounds, refusing to let him spout typical campaign talking points.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Jewish voters may be wary of Palin — ST. PAUL, Minn. — Barack Obama has struggled for 18 months to lock down the support of a traditionally Democratic group, Jewish voters. — In the past week, John McCain may have helped Obama with his Jewish problem by choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
William Yardley / New York Times:
Palin's Start in Alaska: Not Politics as Usual — WASILLA, Alaska — The world arrived here more than a century ago with the gold rush and later the railroad. Yet one aspect of American life did not come to town until 1996, the year Sarah Palin ran for mayor and Wasilla got its first local lesson in wedge politics.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights — ST. PAUL, Minn. — Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain's opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign.
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The New Republic:
Republicans Heading For an Iceberg — ST. PAUL, MN: As a rule, political candidates begin moving to the center on Labor Day, but John McCain has continued to focus on solidifying his rightwing base, particularly among social conservatives. The convention's first two days …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
And Then There Was One — As we emerge from Labor Day, college students are gathering back on campuses not only to start the fall semester, but also, in some cases, to vote for the first time in a presidential election. There is no bigger issue on campuses these days than environment/energy.