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5:30 PM ET, September 9, 2008

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Washington Post:
Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.
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John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
The Hunt for Sarah October  —  City slickers invade Wasilla  —  Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan.  The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women …
David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
NEW WASHINGTON POST “EXPOSE” ON PALIN: You have to read …
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Corner
Ryan Corsaro / CBS News:
Was Biden Talking About Palin During Stem Cell Research Reference?  —  From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:  —  (COLUMBIA, MO.) - Was Joe Biden referring to Sarah Palin, a mother of a child with Down syndrome, when he made this comment?  —  “I hear all this talk about how the Republicans …
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Men and women don't see eye-to-eye on Palin
Yuval Levin / The Corner:
Biden and Developmental Disabilities
Discussion: Commentary
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:   Biden: McCain-Palin all talk
David Plotz / Slate:
I Dream About Sarah Palin.  Do You?  —  SEND US YOUR DREAMS ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN VICE-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE.  —  I rarely remember my dreams, but for the past week, GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been haunting me.  Night after night, she appears in my dreams, always as a scolding, ominous figure.
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CNN:
McCain and Palin once again play ‘Barracuda’  —  LEBANON, Ohio (CNN) - The rock band “Heart” may have asked John McCain and Sarah Palin stop playing their song “Barracuda” at their rallies, but the campaign is apparently paying no heed.  —  The track — played at the Republican National Convention …
Washington Wire:
Ron Paul Plans ‘Special Announcement’  —  Brad Haynes reports on the presidential race.  —  Rep. Ron Paul, the former Republican presidential candidate who excited a multitude of young voters during the primaries, announced a “major” news conference in Washington Wednesday.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Ron Paul To Appear on Montana Ballot
Jesse Benton / Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty:
Update on Dr. Paul's Special Annoucement
Discussion: Wonkette
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: McCain Maintains 5-Point Lead  —  Support among registered voters steady at 49%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update finds John McCain maintaining his five-point lead versus Barack Obama among registered voters, 49% to 44%.
Discussion: MSNBC and The Moderate Voice
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents  —  Majority of independents now prefer him over Obama, 52% to 37%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — John McCain's 6 percentage-point bounce in voter support spanning the Republican National Convention is largely explained by political independents shifting …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Koch backs Obama, calls Palin ‘scary’  —  Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who endorsed and worked for George W. Bush in 2004, is endorsing Obama today, NY1 first reported.  —  I asked Koch just now what prompted the move.  —  “The designation of Palin to be vice president,” he said.  “She's scary.”
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Andy Barr / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Biden: Palin Would Be ‘Backward Step for Women’
Discussion: Salon and Real Clear Politics
Amanda / Think Progress:
Palin repeats Bridge to Nowhere lie.  —  Today at a rally with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in Ohio, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) once again repeated the lie that she opposed the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska: … Watch it:  —  ThinkProgress has been keeping track of how many times the McCain campaign is repeating this lie.
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The Hill:
Eight years after S.C., Karl Rove works with Sen. McCain's camp
Reuters:
World wants Obama as president: poll  —  US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.  —  All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer …
The Huffington Post:
McCain Backed Abolishing The Department Of Education  —  Barack Obama's campaign is reminding voters today that John McCain, during the heady days of the “Republican Revolution,” once declared that he favored abolishing the Department of Education.  —  “I would certainly favor doing away …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Flashback: McCain Favored Abolishing Department Of Education
CNN:
Obama dishes out tough talk on education
Discussion: Eduwonk
Polimom / The Moderate Voice:
Obama vs. McCain: Why I'm Back on the Fence  —  This morning, I wrote at my own blog that I've pulled the Obama sticker off of my truck; that although I'm not suddenly a McCain supporter, I can no longer be counted in the Obama column.  —  In short, that I'm back on the fence.
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
In a Not-Remotely-Comic Strip, Bill Ayers Weighs In on What He Meant By 'We Didn't Do Enough' to End Vietnam War  —  In a four-panel not-even-remotely-comic strip, William Ayers, the former member of the Weather Underground and associate of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., weighs in on his blog on some of the controversy he's been causing.
CNN:
McCain must embrace Palin's beliefs, evangelical leader says  —  (CNN) — Her faith is one of the reasons many evangelical Christians are excited about Sarah Palin's addition to the Republican presidential ticket, but the Alaska governor's evangelical beliefs have also drawn scrutiny.
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Marc Ambinder:
Quietly, Obama Campaign Calls In The Cavalry  —  There's been a spurt of 527 activity on behalf of Sen. John McCain, but Barack Obama campaign has suddenly gone silent on the subject.  —  That's because, after of year of telling donors not to contribute to 527 groups, of encouraging strategists …
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Hold Your Heads Up  —  Ignorance must really be bliss.  How else, over so many years, could the G.O.P. get away with ridiculing all things liberal?  —  Troglodytes on the right are no respecters of reality.  They say the most absurd things and hardly anyone calls them on it.  Evolution?
Discussion: Open Left and The Sideshow
Frank Gerjevic / Anchorage Daily News:
Questions for Palin  —  This week, she'll finally emerge from her protective shell  —  There's no polite way to say it: Sarah Palin has been hiding out from hard questions.  It took 10 days from when John McCain announced his pick until the McCain campaign agreed to schedule Palin an unscripted interview with a serious journalist.
New York Post:
O PASTOR IN SEX SCANDAL  —  REV. WRIGHT DONE ME WRONG: CHURCH LADY  —  By SAMUEL GOLDSMITH in Dallas and JEANE MacINTOSH in NY  —  He almost wrecked Barack Obama's presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker's marriage - and her job, The Post has learned.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Too Cool to Fight?  —  Thank God for Sarah Palin.  Without her jibes, her sarcasm, her exaggerations, her smug provincialism, her hypocrisy about family and government, her exploitation of mommyhood, and her personal attacks on Barack Obama, the Democratic base might never be consolidated.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Surprise Me Most  —  None of us have ever lived through an election at a time when 80 percent of voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction.  But now that we're in the thick of it, a few things are clear.  From voters, the demand is: Surprise Me Most.  For candidates, the lesson is: Weirdness Wins.
 
 
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Jimmie E. Gates / Clarion-Ledger:
Judge blocks decision on Senate race
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Palin's budget choices praised, criticized
Beth Reinhard / MiamiHerald.com:
McCain begins Florida ad campaign
Discussion: MyDD and TIME.com
Bret Hovell / ABCNEWS:
The ‘Palin Factor’ Bringing Excitement and Bigger Crowds to McCain Events
Megan McArdle:
Coastal privilege  —  Over the last week, I've been hearing a lot of things like this:
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
Spencer Morgan / New York Observer:
Hollywood Infidel  —  Meet Andrew Breitbart, self-proclaimed rebel-king …
Discussion: Power Line
New York Post:
HOW OBAMA BLEW IT  —  PAYS PRICE IN POLLS FOR BUNGLED ATTACKS ON SARAH
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Generals Behaving Badly
Discussion: SWJ Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
'You're Not Accountable, Jack'  —  How a Retired Officer Gained …
Manu Raju / The Hill:
Lieberman to skip Dem lunches
Brandon Friedman / The Huffington Post:
Alaska National Guard General Changes Story; Palin Promotes
Marc Ambinder:
Andrew Sullivan  —  Lots of e-mails asking about Andrew's whereabouts.
Michael Kinsley / Time:
Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics
Discussion: QandO
Maria Gavrilovic / CBS News:
It's Stand-Up Comedy Time for Obama as He Ratchets Up Criticism
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
What Happened?  —  Expect Obama/Biden to get a little desperate …
Jeffrey Goldberg / New York Times:
On Nov. 4, Remember 9/11  —  THE next president must do one thing …
 

 
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CNBC:
Comcast confirms plans to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO; the separation may take about a year

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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