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Pareene / Gawker:
Sarah Palin's Personal Emails — Did the internet just cause Sarah Palin to destroy evidence? The potential Veep is in a bit of trouble for conducting state business using her personal, unarchived email address (gov.sarah@yahoo.com) instead of her official account (which is, of course …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Group Posts E-Mail Hacked From Palin Account — Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday. — The internet griefers known as Anonymous took credit for the intrusion, and screenshots …
Anthony / Tech Voice:
HACKERS BREAK INTO SARAH PALIN'S INBOX! — This is breaking news, so stay tuned for details as more are available... but it appears the infamous group of cyber-mischief makers “anonymous” are up to their old tricks, and this time they had Governor Palin in their sights.
Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Sarah Palin's Personal Email Hacked — I am advised that this is not a hoax. — As the political impact becomes clear, Swampland readers might want to take some time to make sure they have a tricky password on their own email accounts. — UPDATE: Wired.com's blog “Threat Level” has the scoop.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition — A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
McCain's attempt to fix Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2005; Update: Obama can't get AIG right — With the financial sector in turmoil today, the media and the politicians have started throwing around blame with the same recklessness as lenders threw around credit to create the problem.
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Mark Preston / CNN:
Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Virtual tie in battleground states — CNN Deputy Political Director — WASHINGTON (CNN) — New polls in five battleground states that could decide the presidency suggest the battle for the White House between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama remains a dead heat.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 45% — PRINCETON, NJ — The Sept. 14-16 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows Barack Obama regaining a slight, although not statistically significant, edge over John McCain, 47% to 45%, among registered voters, marking the first time since the week …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Obama Invokes Rush Limbaugh in New Spanish-Language Ads — The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has “dos caras” …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Limbaugh, hitting back over usage in ad, says Obama “stoking racism”
Limbaugh, hitting back over usage in ad, says Obama “stoking racism”
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Drudge-ology 101: McCain, Obama and Media Bias — Yesterday was a typical recent day on the Drudge Report — the single most influential source for how the presidential campaign is covered in the country. — In the banner headline spot for most of the day was a picture …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DRUDGE STILL, INEXPLICABLY, RULES THEIR WORLD.... The Washington …
DRUDGE STILL, INEXPLICABLY, RULES THEIR WORLD.... The Washington …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Can He Stop ‘Troopergate’? — A McCain lawyer scrambles to block a Palin ethics inquiry. — A former top Justice Department prosecutor now working for John McCain's presidential campaign has been helping to direct an aggressive legal strategy aimed at shutting down a pre-election ethics investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
CNN Demolishes Every McCain Campaign Lie — This is by far the most thorough debunking I've seen to date on the myriad of lies coming from Team McCain. … HT Jed, who adds:
Frank James / The Swamp:
Biden on AIG bailout: ‘No’ — by Frank James (corrected from an earlier version which wrongly said Biden's remarks were made today. He made them yesterday.) — Sen. Joe “Working-Class Hero” Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, said yesterday in an interview we missed in real time that he's against the AIG bailout.
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Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Despite Claims Today He Warned of this Crisis, McCain in 2007 Said He Didn't See This Crisis Coming — “Two years ago, I warned that the oversight of Fannie and Freddie was terrible, that we were facing a crisis because of it, or certainly serious problems,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told CBS this morning.
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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin “Disappointed” In “Understandable” AIG Bailout — From CBS News' Scott Conroy: — (CLEVELAND, Ohio) During a quick stop at a diner in Cleveland, Ohio, Sarah Palin was asked for her reaction to the AIG bailout. — “Dissapointed that taxpayers are called upon to bailout another one,” she said.
DealBook:
Washington Mutual Begins Efforts to Sell Itself — Washington Mutual, the struggling savings and loan, has been working on several efforts to save itself, including a potential sale, people briefed on the matter said Wednesday. — The unsurprising announcement comes as the bank …
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Ronald Radosh / Los Angeles Times:
Case closed: The Rosenbergs were Soviet spies — A startling confession again proves their guilt. Now it's time for their left-wing defenders to acknowledge it. — Julius and ethel Rosenberg were executed 55 years ago, on June 19, 1953. But last week, they were back in the headlines …