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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
McCain: Scrap Friday Debate for Bailout; Obama: The Debate is On — ABC News' George Stephanopoulos and Rick Klein report: Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday said he would “suspend” his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill …
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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 will suspend his presidential campaign Thursday so that he can return to Washington to help negotiate a Wall Street bailout, and he is urging Barack Obama to do the same. — The Republican presidential candidate also asked …
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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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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 — The financial crisis on Wall Street overwhelmed the 2008 presidential race today, as Republican presidential nominee John McCain this afternoon said he would suspend his presidential campaign tomorrow to return …
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.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain taking ads down — Aiming to prove how serious he is about addressing the financial crisis, John McCain has instructed his staff to take all his campaign commercials off the air, a spokesman tells Politico. — “As John McCain said, now is the time to put partisanship aside …
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Gimmicks ‘R’ Us — McCain suspends his campaign because of financial crisis? Oh please. Given today's poll numbers—even Fox has him dropping—it seems another Hail Mary (like the feckless selection of Palin) to try make McCain seem a statesman, which is difficult given the puerile tenor of his campaign's message operation.
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CNN:McCain suspends campaign, Obama says he's continuing
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Michelle Malkin:Breaking: McCain suspends campaign over bailout, wants debate …
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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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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:ASK A SILLY QUESTION.... John McCain and Sarah Palin met …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
WAIT ... WAIT — What's changed today in the financial crisis other than John McCain's poll numbers tanking? Isn't this the campaign equivalent of faking an injury when you're down late in the 4th quarter? Note too that McCain was in the midst of debate prep when he made this decision.
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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.”
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BE HONEST — Let's state outright a few obvious points. Bringing the presidential candidates and their press entourages back to Capitol Hill won't speed or improve the process of coming up with a good bailout deal. It will politicize it. That's so transparently obvious that it barely requires stating.
Drudge Report:
EXCLUSIVE: LETTERMAN MOCKS MCCAIN CANCELLATION — David Letterman tells audience that McCain called him today to tell him he had to rush back to DC to deal with the economy. — Then in the middle of the taping Dave got word that McCain was, in fact just down the street being interviewed by Katie Couric.
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 …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
The Debate Debate — Obama is on TV right now. — Some of this is a lot of nonsense, but if I'm just getting home from work and I only pay casual attention to these debates, Obama sounds reasonable and less gimmicky than McCain. — He says that there is no reason why we can't do more than one thing at once.
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
NBC/WSJ POLL: DOUBTS ABOUT PALIN — From NBC's Mark Murray — The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll will be released at 6:30 pm ET, but here's an early look at one set of numbers: — Forty-nine percent say that Palin is unqualified to be president if the need arises, compared with 40 percent who say she's qualified.
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