Poll Results Suggest More Uncommitted Voters Saw Obama As Debate Winner  —  UPDATED WITH NEAR-FINAL NUMBERS CBS News and Knowledge Networks conducted a nationally representative poll of approximately 500 uncommitted voters reacting to the debate in the minutes after it happened.

McCain Wins Debate  —  Although the fate of tonight's presidential debate in Mississippi remains very much up in the air, John McCain has apparently already won it — if you believe an Internet ad an astute reader spotted next to this piece in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal this morning.

GOP concerned about Palin  —  A growing number of Republicans are expressing concern about Sarah Palin's uneven — and sometimes downright awkward — performances in her limited media appearances.  —  Conservative columnists Kathleen Parker, a former Palin supporter, says the vice presidential nominee should step aside.

Presidential Debate Live-Blogging  —  11:47: CNN's Roland Martin's reaction to the debate: “John McCain, how dare you come and give a debate and you don't even say the word ‘middle class.’”  —  11:35: Fox pollster Frank Luntz's focus group showed that a majority was “moved” by Obama's performance.

Transcript of presidential debate  —  WASHINGTON (CNN ) — Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama debated on the campus of the University of Mississippi Friday night.  The moderator for the debate was Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS.  What follows is the full transcript of the debate:

TWS Exclusive: Kissinger Unhappy About Obama  —  Henry Kissinger believes Barack Obama misstated his views on diplomacy with US adversaries and is not happy about being mischaracterized.  He says: “Senator McCain is right.  I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage …

Sarah Palin's Beauty Pageant Swimsuit Competition Footage (VIDEO)  —  Sarah Palin's 1984 beauty pageant swimsuit competition video has hit the web.  An Alaskan has uploaded what he claims to be 100% real footage of Sarah Palin in a red tank suit in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest.

House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO): McCain “stopped a deal” yesterday at the White House  —  House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) was just interviewed by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, and he told Mitchell that McCain killed the deal yesterday at the White House:

Ignore The Pundits: How To Figure Out Who Won The Debate  —  There were 23 debates during the Democratic primary and part of my job on the Hillary campaign was to monitor the post-debate reaction in the media.  I watched hundreds of self-described political experts instantly declare who won and who lost.

Ku Klux Klan Members Plan to Appear at Presidential Debate Site  —  Corey Dade reports from Oxford, Miss., on the presidential race.  —  When the University of Mississippi hosts the first presidential debate tonight, the two sides of its troubled racial history could converge.

Morally bankrupt  —  I cannot address all the patently untrue things that McCain and Obama are saying, but I must protest when Barack Obama claims that people are going bankrupt because of health expenses.  There is no evidence to suggest that this is a widespread phenomenon.

Live-Blogging Ole Miss  —  10.31 pm.  It strikes me as a mistake for McCain to end the debate on his commitment to staying in Iraq indefinitely.  Obama's emphasis on the broader global conflict and our broader responsibilities will reach more people.  His vision seems broader, wiser, and more focused on ordinary people.

Evangelist arrested in child porn case  —  (CNN) — Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said.  —  The 74-year-old founder and leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was arrested without incident at 2:45 p.m. …

LIVE FIRST PREZ DEBATE BLOGGING  —  9:06 PM ... Wait, didn't McCain just say that he got the House Republicans to take part in the negotiations when he seemed to lead them out of the negotiations?  —  9:11 PM ... Interesting the degree to which, so far, neither Obama or McCain want to engage each other.

MAD ABOUT LETTERMAN  —  MCCAIN VIDEO 'JACKED FROM KATIE  —  CBS News executives were red- faced yesterday trying to explain how David Letterman used unaired news footage of Sen. John McCain with Katie Couric to embarrass the Republican presidential candidate.

First debate: A few jabs, but no body blows  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Friday that another attack on the scale of the September 11 hijackings is “much less likely” now than it was the day after the terrorist attacks.  —  “America is safer now than it was on 9/11,” he said …

Bachmann Blames President Clinton, ‘Blacks,’ And ‘Other Minorities’ For Current Financial Crisis  —  Yesterday in a Senate hearing on the financial crisis, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) spoke on what caused the situation.  To make her point, she read from an article called …

Barnett: ‘Unprecedented,’ ‘free-form’ debate format  —  Bob Barnett, the D.C. lawyer who helped negotiate out the debate agreement for Obama's side, said this evening that the debate would take an “unprecedented” format with the potential for some “free-form discussion” debate.

S.E.C. Concedes Oversight Flaws Fueled Collapse  —  WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a longtime proponent of deregulation, acknowledged on Friday that failures in a voluntary supervision program for Wall Street's largest investment banks had contributed …