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4:00 PM ET, September 24, 2008

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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 bailout negotiations.  He urged his opponent Barack Obama to do the same.  —  The Arizona senator also asked …
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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.
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.
Discussion: Weekly Standard, Open Left and TIME.com
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.
Washington Post:   McCain Suspending Campaign, Asks for Debate Delay
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
McCain: Postpone debate for crisis
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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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Sarah Palin: Depression fears
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ASK A SILLY QUESTION.... John McCain and Sarah Palin met …
Discussion: Eunomia
Christine Lagorio / CBS News:
Just A Peek: Katie's Interview With Sarah Palin
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain camp attacks Times, doesn't deny report  —  The Mccain camp has a 698-word statement out in response to today's story that Rick Davis's firm, Davis Manafort, was paid a consulting fee of $15,000 a month starting in 2005, and ending last month.  —  The statement from McCain aide Michael Goldfarb begins:
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Washington Post:
Economic Fears Give Obama Clear Lead Over McCain in Poll  —  Turmoil in the financial industry and growing pessimism about the economy have altered the shape of the presidential race, giving Democratic nominee Barack Obama the first clear lead of the general-election campaign over Republican John McCain …
Gallup:   Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains 3-Point Edge
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  —  Few in the field of survey research have examined the problem of cell phones and surveys as closely over the last four years as Scott Keeter and his colleagues at the Pew Research Center.  They conducted one of the first large-scale political surveys …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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 …
Discussion: Freakonomics and Portfolio
Arnold Kling / EconLog:
The Ignorance Behind the Paulson Plan  —  From The PBS News Hour on September 23: … Ludwig is one of the authors, along with Paul Volcker, of the op-ed that put the bailout proposal on the table in the first place.  —  I am sure that Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Eugene Ludwig …
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CNN:
McCain suspends campaign for ‘historic’ crisis
Discussion: The New Republic
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 …
Discussion: Weekly Standard, Wonkette and Slog
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Intrade Betting is Suspicious  —  There's something funny going on over at Intrade with respect to the pricing of the Obama and McCain contracts.  —  Right now, Obama is trading at 52.3 points.  That is, Intrade implies that he has a 52.3 percent chance to become the next President.
Discussion: The RBC
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 …
Us Weekly:
John McCain Uses Idol Makeup Artist!  —  John McCain, whose ads skewer Barack Obama for his “celebrity” status, has his own close ties to show business, the new issue of Us Weekly reports exclusively.  —  The 72-year-old was recently made TV-ready by makeup artist Tifanie White who's worked …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Raw Story
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.
Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
A STATEMENT FROM LUKE RUSSERT  —  From NBC's Luke Russert  —  Earlier this morning on the Today Show I misspoke and made what is without a doubt, quite simply a dumb comment.  —  Matt Lauer talked about UVA being a smart school and whether or not it could be considered a microcosm of Virginia at large.
Discussion: TVNewser and Wonkette
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.”
Thomas Frank / Wall Street Journal:
It's Judgment Day for McCain  —  Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to “find out what went wrong” on Wall Street.  It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s.
Discussion: Think Progress and The Corner
 
 
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Obama, McCain already working on joint statement
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Andrew Clark / Guardian:
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Paul Krugman:
The trust problem  —  Andrew Leonard has an interesting theory …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
CNN:
Biden, Obama helped keep ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ alive
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Ivan Moore: Palin remains popular but not like before
Marisa Katz / Washington Post:
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