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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Clinton blindsided by scheduled event with Palin  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled an appearance at a New York rally next week after organizers blindsided her by inviting Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, aides to the senator said Tuesday.

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.

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” …

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:

Señor Smith, Part Dos  —  WW finds more evidence Sen. Gordon Smith's company has employed undocumented workers.  —  WALLA WALLA, Wash.—U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) reacted quickly last week when WW quoted multiple sources inside and outside Smith's vegetable-packing plant …

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.

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.

OBAMA GAMBLES ON LENGTHY ECONOMIC AD.... Audiences have grown accustomed to certain kinds of political advertising.  The new spot from the Obama campaign is a little something different.  —  The spot is two minutes long, making it four times as long as the typical campaign ad.

Six Questions for Bart Gellman, Author of Angler  —  Last June, Bart Gellman's four-part series in the Washington Post gave us an extraordinary portrait of Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in America's history.  The series, called “Angler"-after the Secret Service's codename …

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 …

North Carolina a new battleground  —  RALEIGH, N.C. - All of a sudden, North Carolina matters.  —  It hasn't for decades in presidential elections.  —  Then Democrat Barack Obama made an aggressive play for this traditionally GOP state and polls showed the race tightening.