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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Analysis: Palin's words carry racial tinge … WASHINGTON (AP) - By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating Five — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain's public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.
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CNN:
Fact Check: Is Obama ‘palling around with terrorists’? — Get the facts! — The Facts: In making the charge at a fund-raising event in Englewood, Colorado, and a rally in Carson, California, Palin was referring at least in part to William Ayers, a 1960s radical.
The Huffington Post:
Palin Misquotes Albright: “Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don't Support Other Women” — At a rally today in California, Gov. Sarah Palin offered up a rather jarring argument for supporting the Republican ticket. “There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women …
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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Says She Wants To Talk About Issues, Adds That Obama Pals With A Terrorist
Palin Says She Wants To Talk About Issues, Adds That Obama Pals With A Terrorist
Steve Diamond / Global Labor and Politics:
NY Times Confirms Ayers' Role in Obama Appointment as Chair …
NY Times Confirms Ayers' Role in Obama Appointment as Chair …
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Jason Szep / Tales from the Trail:
In slip up, Palin calls Afghanistan “our neighboring country” — SAN FRANCISCO - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin called Afghanistan “our neighboring country” on Sunday in a speech that could revive questions over her tendency to stumble into linguistic knots.
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Guardian:
Now Wall Street may shun $700bn bail-out — Fears are mounting that many Wall Street banks and financial firms will refuse to participate in the US government's $700bn bail-out package, leaving global markets and world economies in a perilous state for months to come.
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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Says Omaha Visit Was Not Campaign's Call, It Was Hers — From CBS News' Scott Conroy: — (OMAHA, NEB.) - Sarah Palin said at a hastily scheduled Sunday night rally in this solidly red state that the decision to come here was hers alone and was not the defensive move by her campaign …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Va. GOP fears McCain could lose the state — Virginia Republicans are warning that John McCain's prospects for winning a state that has been in the GOP column in every presidential election since 1964 could be in jeopardy. With Barack Obama treating the Old Dominion like a battleground state …
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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
McCain's brother says N. Va. ‘Communist country’
McCain's brother says N. Va. ‘Communist country’
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Washington Post
John M. Broder / The Caucus:
Biden's Mother-in-Law Dies — Bonny Jean Jacobs, 78, the mother-in-law of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice presidential nominee, died this afternoon after a long illness. Mr. Biden has canceled all campaign appearances Monday and Tuesday to be with his wife, Jill Jacobs Biden, and their families.
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Wesley Loy / Anchorage Daily News:
Seven state employees to honor Troopergate subpoenas — Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg announced today that seven state employees will now honor subpoenas to testify in the legislative investigation of the Troopergate affair. — Colberg said the decision comes in light of a judge's ruling …
Marc Ambinder:
Democrats To Raise McCain Associations To Keating, Others — Democratic surrogates say they've been given the go-ahead from the Obama campaign to mention John McCain's associations with S&L kingpin Charles Keating and other historically tarnished creatures when asked about Obama's connection to ex-Weatherman William Ayers.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Mich GOP county chair calls McCain move “complete crock of crap” — Al Ribeiro, until now McCain's Michigan state director, had the unenviable task of sending out an email to Republicans in the state explaining as delicately as possible why they were pulling out.
Joe Malchow / Dartblog:
Sarah Palin in Burlingame, Calif. — I am freshly returned from a Sarah Palin fundraiser in Burlingame, California. Thank-you to the readers who donated in my name, both the nameless first (who, the campaign insists, is called Joann, and is my wife) and the second.
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Allison Sherry / Denver Post:
Dead heat in Colorado — A new poll shows Colorado voters support McCain and Obama equally. Eight percent are still undecided. — Securing their reputations as independent-minded swing voters, Coloradans are now evenly split over the race for the White House, with a new poll showing …
MSNBC:
Paul Begala, Mike Murphy, Chuck Todd, David Gregory, Gwen Ifill, Peggy Noonan and David Yepsen — MR. TOM BROKAW: Our issues this Sunday: Just 30 days to go and the battle for electoral votes is shifting rapidly. We take you through the national political map and the key battleground states …