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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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Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain: Palin more qualified than Obama — Mounting a ferocious defense of his embattled running mate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he is buying a TV ad arguing that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has more experience than the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
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.
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.
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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 …
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.
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.
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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:Well, I Did Something Right — Thanks to Stephen Hayes:
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Michelle Malkin:P.D.S. alert: Us magazine's partisan hit job
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:As the GOP turns: Sarah Palin's daughter's baby's father to attend convention
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed “Hatred For The American …
National Enquirer:PALIN WAR: TEEN PREGO CRISIS
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
McCain Strategist Blasts Media — Top Aide Says News Organizations Are ‘on a Mission to Destroy’ Palin — Sen. John McCain's top campaign strategist accused the news media Tuesday of being “on a mission to destroy” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by displaying “a level of viciousness and scurrilousness” …
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Washington Post:
Before Speech, Running Mate Gets Some Coaching — Since Sunday night, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been holed up in her suite in the Hilton Minneapolis while a parade of Sen. John McCain's top advisers have briefed her on the nuances of his policy positions, national politics and, above all …
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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.
Wall Street Journal:
The Beltway Boys — Even as the Obama camp ponders how best to handle John McCain's veep pick of Sarah Palin, the high priests and priestesses of the media have marked her as an apostate. The Beltway class is in full-throated rebellion against a nondomesticated conservative who might pose …
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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Ben Smith / The Politico:Dept. of Counterprogramming: Obama to appear on O'Reilly Thursday
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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.
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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.
Michael Moore:
Michael Moore Responds to Joe Lieberman — (Last night, during his primetime speech from the podium at the Republican National Convention, Senator Joe Lieberman made the following statement: “... if John McCain is just another partisan Republican, then I'm Michael Moore's favorite Democrat.
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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.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Gingrich Slams MSNBC's Allen Concerning Palin's Qualifications — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did what conservatives have been waiting for someone to do since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate: take on someone in the media claiming that she lacks the qualifications to be vice president.
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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.
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