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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Group Posts E-Mail Hacked From Palin Account — UPDATE: McCain Campaign Responds  —  Group Posts E-Mail Hacked From Palin Account — UPDATE: McCain Campaign and FBI Respond  —  Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday.
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.
Discussion: Gawker and TIME.com
Michelle Malkin:
Sarah Palin's private e-mail hacked, family photos raided; cesspool blog gloats
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
BREAKING: Sarah Palin Yahoo! email account hacked
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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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 …
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
McCain has 2 faces: Washington in- and outsider
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Raw Story
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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Associated Press:   North Carolina a new battleground
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 …
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”
Discussion: Townhall.com
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 …
Discussion: TPM Election Central and MyDD
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DRUDGE STILL, INEXPLICABLY, RULES THEIR WORLD.... The Washington …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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:
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.
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Colombia deal has better shot under Obama, say trade lobbyists, union reps  —  Both sides in the debate over the controversial trade deal with Colombia believe the pact has a better chance of passing next year if Barack Obama is elected president.  —  The irony is that Obama has been an opponent …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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.
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 …
 
 
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