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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
McCain: Scrap Friday Debate for Bailout; Obama Camp: ‘The Debate is On’ — ABC News' George Stephanopoulos and Rick Klein report: Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said he would “suspend” his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill, a dramatic move designed to seize a powerful issue.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain's gambit — McCain suspends his campaign, and asks to postpone Friday's debate, to address the financial crisis. — Both candidates have been marginal players; McCain, though, seems to have the potential to make himself a major one, and his move is a mark, most of all, that he doesn't like the way this campaign is going.
Fox News:
McCain Suspends Campaign to Help With Bailout — John McCain announced that he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with Wall Street bailout negotiations. He urged his opponent Barack Obama to do the same. — The Arizona senator also asked …
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Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
McCain Asks To Postpone Friday Debate Due To Economic Crisis — NEW YORK — Republican John McCain said Wednesday he wants to delay Friday's debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama and temporarily put aside their partisan campaign to resolve the nation's financial crisis.
Drudge Report:
MCCAIN SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN TO FOCUS ON ECONOMY; WANTS DEBATE DELAY — MCCAIN: America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy.
Washington Post:
McCain Calls for Debate Delay to Focus on Financial Crisis — NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee John McCain this afternoon said he would suspend his presidential campaign tomorrow to return to Washington and help reach agreement on a plan to solve the financial crisis on Wall Street …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain wants to delay Friday debate, focus on economic crisis — John McCain is calling for a postponement of the first presidential debate, scheduled for Friday in Mississippi, and is urging Barack Obama to join him in Washington for a high-level meeting of congressional leaders to address the financial crisis.
Associated Press:
McCain seeks to delay Friday's debate — Candidate plans to return to Washington Thursday to deal with credit crisis — NEW YORK - Republican John McCain said Wednesday he is directing his staff to work with Democrat Barack Obama's campaign and the presidential debate commission …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:Obama, McCain already working on joint statement
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Washington Post:Economic Fears Give Obama Clear Lead Over McCain in Poll
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Palin gets question, looks to McCain, demurs — This is what happens when campaigns let reporters into photo ops. They get all uppity and ask questions. — From the pool report account of what happened after McCain and Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Campbell Brown Rips McCain Camp's “Sexist” Treatment Of Palin — A prominent female news anchor chastised the McCain campaign Tuesday evening for engaging in sexism and insulting behavior in its attempt to shield Gov. Sarah Palin from members of the press. — In a fiery commentary …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:ASK A SILLY QUESTION.... John McCain and Sarah Palin met …
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Michael Goldfarb / JohnMcCain.com:
A Partisan Paper of Record — Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid …
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Scott Keeter / PewResearch.org:
Cell Phones and the 2008 Vote: An Update — Current polling in the 2008 presidential election shows a very tight race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. In part because of the strong support Obama is attracting among younger voters, and as the number of Americans …
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Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:Pew Research: Missing Cell-Phone Onlys Matter
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University of Chicago GSB Faculty Redirect Page:
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate: — As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson to deal with the financial crisis. We are well aware of the difficulty …
Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Obama Reclaims Lead Over McCain, 45% to 39% — Barack Obama has recaptured the lead — 45 percent to 39 percent — over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday. — As majorities of each party's faithful back their party nominee …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Bill Clinton cites Jewish holidays to explain delay in campaigning — File this one under Ya Can't Make It Up. — Call me crazy, but there may some Christian areas of the country that he could stump in for Obama before, after or doing the high holidays. — From WJC's interview with Larry King tonight:
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:Bill Clinton: Will respect Jewish holidays, then 'hustle up …
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Paul Krugman:
The trust problem — Andrew Leonard has an interesting theory about what Paulson and Bernanke may be thinking — namely, that mortgage-related securities are wildly underpriced, and that the Treasury can create a market that will lead to major upward revaluations, and we'll all live happily thereafter.
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Martina Stewart / CNN:
Florida congressman points to Palin to rally Jews to Obama — (CNN) - Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.”
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Lawmakers likely to scale back bailout — Funding for Treasury's ambitious $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets appears increasingly likely to be scaled back or divided into tranches to help win the votes needed from nervous lawmakers in Congress.
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WNBC:
PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk — VERMONT — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk …
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