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5:15 PM ET, September 17, 2008

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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.
Michelle Malkin:   Sarah Palin's private e-mail hacked, family photos raided; cesspool blog gloats
Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Sarah Palin's Personal Email Hacked
Discussion: Gawker and TIME.com
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.
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 …
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:
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Does Obama Support the AIG Bailout?
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.
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” …
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 …
Discussion: Dealbreaker
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 …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
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.
 
 
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama's Run More Negative Ads
Discussion: MyDD and Commentary
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court's Global Influence Is Waning
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John McCormick / Chicago Tribune:
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Scott Horton / Harper's:
Six Questions for Bart Gellman, Author of Angler
Amanda / Think Progress:
McCain and Palin to appear on Larry King Live tonight.
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Case Against Me  —  Alex Massie is disappointed …
Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blogs:
Martha: McCain presidency “really weird”
Discussion: Think Progress and Gawker
Christopher Palmeri / Business Week:
Is Washington Mutual the Next to Fall?
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
Marc Ambinder:
A Tale Of Two Ads  —  On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Joe Scar …
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Two Minute Ad  —  This seems like a big gamble:
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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