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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Convention lifts McCain over Obama — WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an “enthusiasm gap” that has dogged the GOP all year.
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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.
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ABCNEWS:
Palin to Sit Down With ABC News' Charlie Gibson — Veep Pick Is Elusive Target for the Democrats — Gov. Sarah Palin will sit down with ABC News' Charlie Gibson for her first interview since winning the Republican vice presidential nomination, the network's news division confirmed today.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Palin agrees to interview — Under pressure for being shielded for questioning, Sarah Palin has a agreed to sit down with Charles Gibson of ABC's “World News Tonight,” according to an ABC News official. — No other interviews are scheduled. It will be the first TV interview for Palin since …
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Tahman Bradley / Political Punch:
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 …
Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
The Scrutiny of Sarah Palin — STEVE SCHMIDT, John McCain's chief campaign strategist, told The Washington Post last week that the news media were “on a mission to destroy” Sarah Palin and that The Times in particular had written “an absolute work of fiction” about how she was vetted …
Newsweek:
Palin offers first TV interview to ABC News — McCain running mate ready to for her first television interview, offers meeting with ABC News — (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin plans to sit down later this week for her first television interview since John …
Brian M. Carney / Wall Street Journal:Political Diary — What Sarah Knows — Sarah Palin has gotten …
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
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”.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
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 …
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Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Obama's verbal slip fuels his critics — ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, “my Muslim faith.” — The three words — immediately corrected …
Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:Obama Sees Nothing Funny About Community Organizer
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat — MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel's coverage of the election. — That experiment appears to be over.
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David Ellis / CNNMoney.com:
U.S. seizes Fannie and Freddie — Treasury chief Paulson unveils historic government takeover of twin mortgage buyers. Top executives are out. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Federal officials on Sunday unveiled an extraordinary takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac …
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
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.”
MSNBC:
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.
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Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
State paid for trip when Palin told students to pray for pipeline — Gov. Sarah Palin used state funds in June when she traveled from Juneau to Wasilla to speak to graduating evangelical students and urge them to fan out through Alaska “to make sure God's will be done here.”
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