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.

Barack Obama ‘wanted to join US military’  —  Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and “we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point”.

Video: No, Obama didn't “admit” to being a Muslim on ABC  —  Within 10 minutes of this airing we'd already gotten four or five e-mails about it; 20 minutes later, a bowdlerized version had already hit YouTube and begun circulating.  I despise lefty sites for twisting conservatives' words …

Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Tom Friedman  —  MR. TOM BROKAW: Our issues this Sunday: Senator McCain accepts the Republican Party's nomination for president of the United States.  —  SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): My heartfelt thanks to all of you who helped me win this nomination and stood by me when the odds were long.

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 had turbulent first year as mayor of Alaska town  —  Sarah Palin's first year as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, could easily have been her last as she became embroiled in personnel challenges, a thwarted attempt to pack the City Council and a bitter standoff with her local newspaper.

How an AMERICAblog reader asked John and Sarah real questions at a photo opp today.  Palin notes that Stevens is under indictment.  —  NOTE FROM JOHN: Joe just pointed something out to me, the part where our reader asks Palin if she's going to vote for Ted Stevens and she replies, “he's under indictment, you know.”

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.