Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 9 — McCain Camp Says She Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with “Deference”  —  Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself …

Gallup Daily: McCain Moves Ahead, 48% to 45%  —  McCain enjoying increase in support following convention  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain moving ahead of Barack Obama, 48% to 45%, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.

Obama considered joining military, regrets abortion answer  —  Barack Obama says his answer about abortion at the Saddleback Church forum was “probably” too flip.  —  During separate televised interviews last month, Pastor Rick Warren asked the two presidential candidates when a baby gets human rights.

Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers  —  Washington, DC— Good morning.  I'm joined here by Jim Lockhart, Director of the new independent regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA.

Sarah Palin Assembles Her Foreign Policy Team  —  From The Scrapbook:  —  (Actually, the governor visits the Little Norway Festival, Petersburg, Alaska, 2007.)

Palin floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee  —  The Democrats are in trouble.  Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign.  —  Period.  —  Palin's speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense.

Political Diary  —  What Sarah Knows  —  Sarah Palin has gotten some rough treatment from the media since John McCain announced his vice presidential pick.  In her speech last week, she gave a little jab back at “all those reporters and commentators.”  That won't likely win her many new admirers in the Washington press corps.

Daily Show: “John McCain: Reformed Maverick”  —  Jon Stewart traces John McCain's evolution from a straight-talking maverick to a shameless panderer who now embraces all the things he used to condemn.  —  Download |  Play Download |  Play

Palin may woo blue-collar voters from Obama  —  (09-07) 04:00 PDT Washington —  Democrats do not think that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's arrival in the enemy camp changes Sen. Barack Obama's path to the White House.  As far as they're concerned, Republican John McCain's running mate is President George W. Bush.

Sarah Palin's appeal to working-class women may be limited  —  For many of these critical swing voters, economic interests trump any admiration of the Alaska governor's maternal grit, and some are repelled by her sarcastic jabs at Obama.  —  UNIONTOWN, PA. — Trish Heckman …