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CNN:
Linguist: Palin spoke at higher level than Biden did — (CNN) — An analysis carried out by a language monitoring service said Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at a more than ninth-grade level and Sen. Joseph Biden spoke at a nearly eighth-grade level in Thursday night's debate between the vice presidential candidates.
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Time Edit / Swampland:
Did Women Like Sarah? — From TIME's Amy Sullivan: — Last night in Colorado (one of the key swing states we have our eyes on), the Democratic polling group Greenberg Quinlan Rosner brought together 40 undecided women voters to watch the vice-presidential debate.
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Do Over! Palin Answers Katie Couric's Questions ... to Fox News' Carl Cameron (She Reads The Economist, She Says) — In a post-debate interview today with Fox News' chief political correspondent Carl Cameron, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin provided some of the answers that seemed to elude her in her past interview with Katie Couric.
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Fox News:
RAW DATA: Transcript of FOX News' Interview With Palin — FOX News' Carl Cameron interviews Sarah Palin Friday. — FOXNews.com — The following is a transcript of FOX News' Carl Cameron's interview with Sarah Palin Friday. — CAMERON: Governor Palin, thanks so much for joining us.
The Huffington Post:
Palin On Fox News: Couric Annoyed Me — Appearing on a friendlier news outlet, Gov. Sarah Palin said she was “annoyed” with the way Katie Couric handled their interview and complained that the CBS Evening News host failed to give her the opportunity to take a proverbial axe to Barack Obama.
Matt / Think Progress:
Palin Says She Will Seek Some Authority Over Legislative And Judicial Branches
Palin Says She Will Seek Some Authority Over Legislative And Judicial Branches
Fox News:
Palin Disagrees With Michigan Pullout, Takes Second Stab at ‘Gotcha’ Questions
Palin Disagrees With Michigan Pullout, Takes Second Stab at ‘Gotcha’ Questions
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
SHE READ THE CLIFFSNOTES? — Fox gives Sarah Palin a second bite …
SHE READ THE CLIFFSNOTES? — Fox gives Sarah Palin a second bite …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain Plans Fiercer Strategy Against Obama — Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama's character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat's judgment …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
McCain Campaign's Ad Spending Now Nearly 100 Percent Devoted To Attack Ads — The McCain campaign has now shifted virtually 100 percent of his national ad spending into negative ads attacking Obama, a detailed breakdown of his ad buys reveals. — By contrast, the Obama campaign is devoting less …
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William Bradley / The Huffington Post:
12 Reasons Why McCain Can Still Win — Alaska Governor Sarah Palin discussing when she would deploy “nucular weaponry,” the “be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet,” as she put it in last night's vice presidential debate. She never actually answers the question.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
NRCC Ad: Naming Names — More of this. More of this. Nothing but this for the next 32 days. — The election hangs on this single issue. — The public believes Republicans caused this disaster, and we'll lose based on that misperception. — The Democrats actually caused it …
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Justin Rood / ABCNEWS:
Record Refutes Palin's Sudan Claim — Palin Administration Against Sudan Divestment Before It Was For It, Documents Show — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country's brutal regime from the state's multi-billion-dollar investment fund …
Sarah Boseley / Guardian:
US cuts funding for condoms in Marie Stopes' African clinics — The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa, alleging that it condones forced abortions in China.
Times of London:
That rubbish they talk about the credit crunch — Capitalism is dead. America has gone socialist. US leadership has collapsed. Europe has shown the way. Oh yes? — Gerard Baker — There's something curious about the human imagination. Confronted with unprecedented events …
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Paul Krugman:
Has the bailout already failed? — OK, I know that's premature. And I place no weight at all on the fact that the Dow plunged after the vote. — But it is interesting that short-term Treasury yields are down — only 0.13% on one-month — suggesting that the flight to safety continues unabated.
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Bush 2000 = Palin 2008. — Bush 2000 = Palin 2008. — Tonight on MSNBC, Countdown aired a video compilation showing the similarity in rhetoric between George W. Bush in 2000 and Sarah Palin in 2008. Keith Olbermann reported that “the people around [Palin] — the top-level campaign staffers crafting …
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Does John McCain's Campaign Own VotefortheMILF.com? — The GOP sure knows its base, you gotta hand it to them. A little digging by Govgap.com reveals that www.votefortheMILF.com links directly back to JohnMcCain.com, then on to Sarah Palin's page and a video message. — Govgap.com:
Vanity Fair:
Winky Dinks — I missed the veep debate last night, spending the evening at Christopher Wheeldon's Morphoses (check out Oberon's Grove for a superb writeup of the evening's program—I'll relay my own impressions later), but it appears Sarah Palin bewitched the men folk in the punditry with her fetching blink.
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