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1:30 AM ET, October 9, 2008

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David Brooks: Sarah Palin “Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party” — In an interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg at New York's Le Cirque restaurant to unveil that magazine's redesign, Brooks decried Palin's anti-intellectualism and compared her to President Bush in that regard:

Discussion: Hot Air, THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, Washington Monthly, Connecting.the.Dots, Comments from Left Field, The Huffington Post, DownWithTyranny!, Taylor Marsh, Donklephant, Legalities, Think Progress, Liberty Street, Wonkette, Bob Cesca's Goddamn …, The Daily Dish, No More Mister Nice Blog, The New Republic and folo

The Jed Report:

McCain Loses It: Calls Americans ‘My Fellow Prisoners’ — Update (12:26pm): I've posted an extended version of the clip in the vodpod so you can see the context. McCain was talking about his domestic policies, and clearly meant to say “Americans” or “countrymen” or somesuch.

Discussion: Think Progress, Comments from Left Field, skippy the bush kangaroo, Liberty Street, Shakesville, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, Wonkette and Campaign Silo

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
LOSING IT? — In most political speeches, the common refrain is “my fellow citizens”.

Discussion: Open Left, The Reaction and Philly.com

Washington Wire:
McCain Addresses ‘My Fellow Prisoners’

Discussion: TalkLeft

Jbrown / Politically Drunk On Power!:

Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist ‘New Party’ In 1996 — UPDATE: WE WILL POST AT LEAST ONE MORE SOURCE COMING TOMORROW! Subscribe to feeds or bookmark page. — In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois …

Discussion: Power Line, American Thinker, NO QUARTER, Hot Air, American Power, Confederate Yankee, Riehl World View, DBKP, JammieWearingFool, Townhall.com and Lonewacko

Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Obama Acorn Cover-up?

Discussion: Commentary, Wake up America and Michelle Malkin

CNN: Michelle Obama not offended by ‘that one’ comment

David Frum:

Obama in the Corner — Let me say at the outset: — I'll be voting for John McCain on November 4. — I'll be voting for the man who was right about the surge, who holds clear-eyed views about terrorism and America's enemies, who has fought for leaner government over 20 years …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Dish Rag, Hot Air and Donklephant

The Politico:

The worst debate ever — With the country at one of its most interesting — not to mention terrifying — moments in a generation, John McCain and Barack Obama met in Nashville for what was surely one of the dullest and least satisfying presidential debates in memory. — There have been boring debates before, of course.

Discussion: The Swamp, JustOneMinute and Philly.com

Katie Allison Granju / Because I said so:

The real reason a lot of women can't stand Sarah Palin — MORE ON THIS: I respond to the comments below this post RIGHT HERE. — There's a ridiculous fluff piece in TIME this week that's getting a lot of attention. In it, a female essayist alleges that among the reasons many women …

Discussion: Wizbang and Patterico's Pontifications

Salon:

Nobody's dummy — What a powerful letter — which I am pleased to share with Salon readers. Yes, let us not forget the tragic series of dubious political judgments that led the U.S. to lurch into Southeast Asia after the French had prudently packed up and left.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Daily Dish, protein wisdom, Classical Values and five feet of fury.

Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Todd Palin: Contacts with wife's staff were proper

Discussion: Emptywheel

New York Times:

U.S. May Take Ownership Stake in Banks — WASHINGTON — Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Alas, a blog, naked capitalism, Conglomerate, Firedoglake, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Jack Bog's Blog, AMERICAblog News and Seeing the Forest

Justin Fox / The Curious Capitalist:
Treasury prepares for a TARP-and-switch. And it's a good thing, too

Discussion: Calculated Risk, Brian Beutler, Washington Post and Matthew Yglesias

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Obama's Lead Over McCain Expands to 11 — 52% share of the vote is Obama's highest to date — PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report shows Barack Obama with a 52% to 41% lead over John McCain. — These results, based on Oct. 5-7 polling …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, FiveThirtyEight.com, Political Machine, The Swamp, American Power, MyDD, Power Line, DownWithTyranny!, Liberal Values, Reuters, Oliver Willis, American Street and Firedoglake

Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Your Daily Poll Warnings, Take Three

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Democratic Strategist

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
What is Obama's Ceiling? — This post is going to seem slightly …

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, The Field on the Narcosphere, Amygdala, The Reaction and The New Republic

Dean Reynolds / CBS News:

Reporter's Notebook: Seeing How The Other Half Lives — From CBS News' Dean Reynolds: — (NASHVILLE, TENN.) - After most of the previous 12 months covering Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency, it was interesting, instructive and, well, relaxing to follow John McCain for the last few days.

Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST, Hot Air, NewsBusters.org and Townhall.com

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:

Tough Press Conference — Unlike Marc Ambinder, I've never met Cullen Sheehan and have no idea whether or not he's a nice guy, but it's impossible to watch this and not feel kind of sorry for him. I note that if Al Franken wins, he'll earn the prestigious title of Only Senator to Have Ever …

Discussion: Unfogged and Eschaton

Marc Ambinder:
The Daily Bric-A-Brac: My Friends

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Weekly Standard

The Smoking Gun:

“Keep The N*gger Out Of Office” — Cops: Man threatened voter officials over tardy registration card — Angered by a delay in the receipt of his voter registration card, a Louisiana man today threatened to shoot election officials, claiming that he urgently needed to cast a ballot to …

Discussion: Jack & Jill Politics, The Raw Story and AMERICAblog News

Kara Kenney / WBBH-TV:

Feds investigating sheriff after ‘Hussein’ remark — LEE COUNTY: Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott may have more to worry about than just the court of public opinion. Federal investigators are now looking into whether Scott broke the law by campaigning for John McCain.

Discussion: folo

Washington Wire:
Obama's Name Again Is Used in Attack

Discussion: Swampland and TIME.com

Esnead / The Dish Rag:

How did Newsweek get Sarah Palin to pose with a rifle? — How did Newsweek convince Gov. Sarah Palin to pose with a rifle for its cover? — Simple. It didn't. — Instead, it used an archive (fancy speak for old) stock photo of her taken back in June 2002 and used it for the cover without her knowledge.

Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG, THE CITIZENS JOURNAL and www.redstate.com

Tami Luhby / CNNMoney.com:

AIG hits up Fed for more money — Three weeks after an $85 billion bailout, AIG is turning to the New York Fed for additional funding. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The New York Federal Reserve is lending up to $37.8 billion to American International Group to give the troubled insurer access to much-needed cash.

Discussion: PoliGazette

New York Times:
Fed Gives A.I.G. $37.8 Billion in Aid

Discussion: American Everyman and Kevin Drum

Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:

John McCain's New Mortgage Plan Is Worse than I Had Imagined Possibly, Even Given What I Know About John McCain — Douglas Holtz-Eakin says, this morning: … What does this mean? It means that John McCain wants to give $100 billion of taxpayers' money to America's worst-behaving mortgage financiers.

Discussion: New York Times, Ben Smith's Blogs, Newsweek Blogs, Marc Ambinder, Wonk Room, The Sideshow, Corrente, Washington Wire, The Anonymous Liberal, Buck Naked Politics, Kevin Drum, Hullabaloo and TalkLeft

Paul Krugman:
To do, not to do — Readers ask what I think should be done about the financial crisis.

Discussion: Grasping Reality …

Zack Exley / Firedoglake:

The New Organizers: Obama's Neighborhood Teams — Inside the Obama campaign, almost without anyone noticing, an insurgent generation of organizers has built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people's organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level.

Discussion: Personal Democracy Forum and The RBC

Marc Ambinder:

Obama's Top Field Generals Dispatched To Florida — The Obama campaign's top two field generals have decamped to Florida, a sign of its confidence that the state, with 27 electoral votes, is tilting toward the Democratic candidate. — Steve Hildebrand, the deputy campaign manager …

Discussion: Facing South

Mike Allen / The Politico:

McCain changes homeowner plan — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made an overnight change in the homeowner bailout he proposed at Tuesday's presidential debate, making it more generous to financial institutions and more costly for taxpayers. — McCain's staff says it was always meant that way.

Discussion: Grasping Reality …, Talking Points Memo, The Anonymous Liberal, Ben Smith's Blogs and L.A. Land

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

“Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family.” — The McCain campaign has released a statement from John M. Murtaugh, who as a child had his house firebombed by the Weather Underground and who links the group's founder, William Ayers, to Barack Obama. — In one of the starkest attacks we've seen …

Discussion: Townhall.com, Don Surber, YID With LID, The Washington Independent and Michelle Malkin

Rob / Say Anything:

More Voter Registration Shenanigans: Indianapolis Has 105% Of Its Population Registered To Vote — Does ACORN have an office in Indianapolis? You know they do. … Across the nation voter registration irregularities are coming to light. Many of these irregularities involving the former employer …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Anchoress, ConnPost.com and www.redstate.com

Carrie Dann / MSNBC:

MCCAIN'S ‘FELLOW PRISONERS’ ? — From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner — ALLENTOWN, Penn. — After not attacking Obama in last night's debate as forcefully as his campaign had in previous days, McCain was back on the offensive today at a rally at Lehigh University with his running mate Sarah Palin.