memeorandum: Lies To Nowhere: The McCain Campaign's Inaccuracies On Palin's Bridge … (Think Progress)

12:35 AM ET, September 9, 2008

Top Items:

Obama Upconverts His Musings On Palin — In Flint, Michigan today, Barack Obama hinted that, far from being off-limits, Gov. Sarah Palin is coming into focus as a target for the Democrats. — According to CBS News's Maria Gavrilovic, here's what Obama said:

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Hot Air, Liberal Values, The Colorado Independent, The Anonymous Liberal, Stop The ACLU and TIME.com

Wall Street Journal:

Record Contradicts Palin's ‘Bridge’ Claims — The Bridge to Nowhere argument isn't going much of anywhere. — Despite significant evidence to the contrary, the McCain campaign continues to assert that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the federal government “thanks but no thanks” to the now-famous bridge to an island in her home state.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Comments from Left Field, Donklephant, Taylor Marsh and Real Clear Politics

SCF / Senate Conservatives Fund:

Alaska Democrats pull web page crediting Palin for killing Bridge to Nowhere — We linked last week to a web page sponsored by the Alaska Democratic Party, which attacks Sen. Ted Stevens and credits Governor Sarah Palin for killing the Bridge to Nowhere. Our post is here.

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs, Political Machine, Townhall.com and Marc Ambinder

Think Progress:

Lies To Nowhere: The McCain Campaign's Inaccuracies On Palin's Bridge To Nowhere Support — From the day he named Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) to be his vice presidential running mate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been citing Palin's opposition to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere as the prime example …

Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs, HorsesAss.Org, Emptywheel, Salon, D-Day and Grasping Reality …

Associated Press:
Fact Check: Palin and the Bridge to Nowhere

Discussion: The Raw Story, Yahoo! News, Liberal Values and DownWithTyranny!

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Claiming the ‘Maverick’ Brand

Discussion: Think Progress, Political Machine, skippy the bush kangaroo, TPM Election Central, The Washington Independent and The Jed Report

Marc Ambinder:
Yglesias V. Ambinder

Discussion: Grasping Reality …, Matthew Yglesias, The Sideshow and Emptywheel

Sara Kugler / Associated Press:
McCain, Palin criticize Obama on earmarks

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Little Green Footballs:
Alaska Democratic Party Deletes Page Crediting Sarah Palin …

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Power Line and Gateway Pundit

Washington Post:

McCain Gains Momentum in New Poll — Both Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain solidified support among party loyalists during the conventions, but it was the Republican nominee who entered the presidential campaign's final stretch with newfound momentum, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ, This ain't Hell …, Tom Watson, MyDD, Scared Monkeys, JammieWearingFool and The Raw Story

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Huge: 20-point shift towards McCain among white women since last month in new ABC poll — He's still down one overall among registereds and up two among likelies, but Gallup pegged white independents last week as the only demographic group where there's still a major gender gap and thus room for movement.

Discussion: GINA COBB

CBS News:

Read The Complete Poll — Fifty-three percent of registered voters - including 85 percent of McCain supporters - are glad Palin was selected as McCain's running mate. Obama supporters are less enthusiastic about Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden: Just 65 percent of Obama backers …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and The Swamp

Gallup:
Gallup Daily: McCain's Bounce Gives Him 5-Point Lead

Discussion: Reuters, The Gun Toting Liberal, Daily Kos, The New Republic, American Spectator, The Anonymous Liberal, JammieWearingFool and Hot Air

Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Dead Heat: John McCain, Barack Obama Even in Post-Convention Poll

Discussion: Boston Globe, Top of the Ticket, TalkLeft and The New Republic

Bart Motes / The Huffington Post:
National Review Says McCain is Still Gonna Lose

Discussion: The Corner

Associated Press:
McCain leads Obama in 2 polls, race even in 3 more

Discussion: The Huffington Post

CNN:
CNN Poll: Race dead even

Discussion: Daily Kos, Comments from Left Field and skippy the bush kangaroo

John McCain / Telegraph:

Sarah Palin dolls go on sale as John McCain's running mate's popularity soars — Two new action dolls have gone on sale of Sarah Palin, the Alaska Governor who John McCain has chosen to be his Republican presidential running mate. — The dolls are the latest in a line of American political candidates …

Discussion: Top of the Ticket, Don Surber and Wake up America

Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:

Why Palin Scares Me — Before I get to that, let me explain what I'm not scared of, which is that Palin has somehow altered the demographics of the race. I have a hard time believing that female Hillary supporters, or Rust Belt men, are suddenly racing to support McCain because of Palin.

Discussion: Commentary and JustOneMinute

Byron York / The Corner:
She's An Extremist. Yeah, That's It. An Extremist.

Discussion: Confederate Yankee

The Huffington Post:

Palin Makes Her First Gaffe — Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend. — Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed …

Michelle Malkin:
Huffing HuffPo desperate for a GOP gaffe

Discussion: L.A. Land, The Other McCain, American Power and MarketWatch

Rasmussen Reports:

FOX/Rasmussen Swing State Polling — Background — Rasmussen Reports conducted five state telephone surveys in partnership with Fox News Channel on September 7, 2008. The surveys were conducted in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. A total of 500 Likely Voters …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Fox News, The Next Right, Oliver Willis and American Spectator

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:

First Look At The New Electoral Map — Rasmussen has just released polling from five key swing states. When coupled with PPP's new poll of Michigan and SurveyUSA's new release from Virginia, we see a race that is relatively unchanged from the pre-convention period, but with incremental trends …

Discussion: The Field on the Narcosphere, Liberal Values and The Washington Note

FactCheck.org:

Sliming Palin — False Internet claims and rumors fly about McCain's running mate. — We've been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain's running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.

Discussion: Hot Air

CNN:
McCain Palin fires back over book ban rumor

Discussion: The Washington Note, Talk To Action and Salon

Christopher Hitchens / Slate:

DON'T PATRONIZE SARAH PALIN. — In The Best Man, the only useful or amusing film—or play—ever to have been set at an American political convention, Gore Vidal presents us with Joe and Mabel Cantwell (Cliff Robertson and Edie Adams in the 1964 movie version), who are a right-wing “family values” couple with a large and grisly brood.

Discussion: Vodkapundit

Adam McKay / The Huffington Post:

We're Gonna Frickin' Lose this Thing — “Stop saying that!” my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I'm not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand now, we're gonna frickin' lose this thing.

Discussion: Moonbattery, BlueOregon, StephenBainbridge.com, Perfunction, Confederate Yankee, Blue Crab Boulevard, Wake up America and Ace of Spades HQ

New York Times:

Forgoing Subsidy, Obama Team Presses Donors — After months of record-breaking fund-raising, a new sense of urgency in Senator Barack Obama's fund-raising team is palpable as the full weight of the campaign's decision to bypass public financing for the general election is suddenly upon it.

Discussion: Commentary

Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:

A Hillary vs. Sarah smackdown? Don't bet on it — KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) - Anyone wanting a Hillary vs. Sarah smackdown might be in for a letdown. First, Sarah Palin launched her Republican vice presidential campaign with praise for the strides Hillary Rodham Clinton made in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Discussion: Don Surber