McCain pulling out of Michigan  —  John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play.  —  McCain will go off TV in Michigan …

GOP ‘Gotcha Journalism’ Charges Throw Spotlight on Debate  —  For days now, television viewers have watched Sarah Palin unable to explain the significance of her home state's bordering Russia, unable to name a Supreme Court ruling she disagrees with, unable to name a single newspaper she reads.

Palin's new plan: Go after Biden  —  ST. LOUIS — Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight's debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for adopting liberal positions on taxes and other issues, according to campaign officials involved in prepping her for tonight's showdown.

Judge Could Dismiss Stevens's Indictment or Declare Mistrial  —  Prosecutors Wait Until Last Minute to Disclose Potentially Exculpatory Material  —  A federal judge this morning scolded lawyers prosecuting Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R) on ethics charges for waiting until the last minute …

McCain Says Bailout Bill He Voted For Is “Putting Us On The Brink Of Economic Disaster”  —  There were a couple of odd moments during John McCain's interview with MSNBC just now.  The first: In a strange verbal stumble, he appeared to harshly criticize the bailout bill he voted for yesterday.

Florida GOP meets in secret as Obama passes McCain in polls  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Republican leaders hastily convened a top secret meeting this week to grapple with Sen. John McCain's sagging performance in this must-win state.  —  Their fears were confirmed Wednesday when four …

Obama releases iPhone recruiting, campaign tool  —  Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool.  —  The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states …

Gilchrest Unloads on Know-Nothing Pols and the Rest of Us  —  Wayne Gilchrest, the nine-term Republican congressman who represents Maryland's Eastern Shore and parts of Anne Arundel County, has had it, and he's ready to talk.  —  He's had it with his own party, which he says “has become more narrow …

Obama and McCain's Ads: Equally “Negative”  —  Despite finger-pointing from both sides, Barack Obama and John McCain's presidential campaigns have run almost the same number of negative local campaign ads, Nielsen Monitor-Plus reported Thursday.  —  From June 3, when the primaries ended …

HEADLINES BY TCS  —  The following are some of the top tax sweeteners in the Senate passed Bailout Bill.  Not all the provisions are per se outrageous, but collectively are intended to help Congressional leadership get final passage of the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

NOT ONE 'BUCK'LEY FOR YOU!  —  WILL'S WILL: GRANDSON, 8, DEAD TO ME  —  Before he died, William F. Buckley Jr. put his young grandson on the firing line.  —  The intellectual conservative icon - renowned for his erudition and use of uncommon words - excluded his son's illegitimate child …

THE CHOICE  —  Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching—that's the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast.  And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true?  When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has …

New Obama Ad In South Stars Bluegrass Legend Saying Obama Is “A Good Man”  —  Now this is a good ad.  A Virginia Democrats sends over a new radio spot that Obama is airing in the southern part of the state — it stars homegrown bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley vouching for Obama's values …

OH NO HE DIDN'T - The Mayor of Ark City performs in Blackface  —  Mel Kuhn, the Mayor of Arkansas City Kansas, won a beauty pageant fundraiser last weekend.  Kuhn participated in the Men in Tights, drag queen contest that has become an annual fund raiser for CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates.

Real Credibility Problems  —  EDIT: Please see also my follow-up post here.  —  Last week, I discussed Real Clear Politics' decision to exclude the Research 2000 daily tracking poll from their national averages.  After a lengthy discussion with RCP founder John McIntyre, I decided to defend them …

Congress Has an Obligation to Protect Main Street (Sen. Gordon Smith)  — The Hill : In the latest installment of HillTube's “Mills on the Hill,” The Hill's Jim Mills caught up with Senate reporter Man Raju outside Sen. Ted Stevens's (R-Alaska) corruption trial, being held at the U.S. district court in Washington, DC.