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Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
BIDEN: SAY IT TO HIS FACE — From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli — ST. JOSEPH, MO - Joe Biden echoed the campaign's response to continued Republican efforts to highlight Obama's past associations, adding a personal touch to the idea that McCain wasn't willing to make the attacks in person.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
McCain Goes There — Waukesha, Wisconsin — In response to a broad question about how Barack Obama “got here” — presumably got his lead — John McCain didn't name Bill Ayers but spoke of him directly. McCain said “We don't care about an old washed up terrorist and his wife” …
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VIDEO: The McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio — UPDATE - THANK KOS & WONKETTE & DIGG!! Please donate to keep my camera charged and the gas tank filled for more Ohio fun! — It's no wonder that the slightest incitement from Sarah Palin or John McCain will turn one of their rallies into a lynch mob.
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
John McCain is a Coward — I am glad higher profile bloggers are beginning to recognize what I have been saying for days. John McCain is a coward: … John McCain is not man enough to own his s**t. John McCain will not openly confront Obama with his smears and lies and innuendo.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Pressing Ayers — McCain isn't putting any money behind an Ayers ad at the moment, but he is still pressing the issue, Amie Parnes reports from his Wisconsin town hall. — There, a man asked how Obama came to be where he is, but didn't mention Ayers. — “Everyone here is just tickled …
Michelle Malkin:Reports: Supporter begs McCain to fight; McCain bungles the ball …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:Rage in the Town of Bethlehem
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Hollywoodreporter / The Live Feed:
Exclusive: Obama buys half-hour of network primetime — Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime television on CBS and NBC, sources confirm. — The Obama campaign is producing a nationwide pitch to voters that will air on at least two broadcast networks.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
A half-hour of prime time? — I'm starting to get the sense that fundraising is going pretty good in Obamaland. — James Hibberd reports:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama on Ayers: ‘I assumed that he had been rehabilitated’ — In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host this afternoon, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former '60s radical who would become …
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Serge F. Kovaleski / New York Times:
In Dozens of Calls, Palins and Aides Pressed for Trooper's Removal — ANCHORAGE — The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one of his troopers, Michael Wooten. This time, the director of Gov. Sarah Palin's Anchorage office was on the line.
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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Supreme Court won't block Troopergate inquiry — The Alaska Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by a group of six Republican legislators to shut down the Legislature's investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin. — The ruling means that Steve Branchflower, the investigator hired by the Legislative Council …
Tony Hopfinger / Bloomberg:Alaska Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Palin Probe
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On Politics:
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll signals that debate boosted Obama, not McCain — Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama convinced many more viewers to think more favorably of him during Tuesday night's presidential debate than did his Republican opponent, John McCain, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll signals.
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Caleb Hellerman / CNN:Poll: Half concerned McCain wouldn't finish term
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Keating to McCain in 1986: 'I'm yours til death do us part.' — The Washington Times reports that in 1986, John McCain wrote a note on House stationery to Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings and loan association who went to prison in the late 1980s.
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
QUESTIONER: ‘I ACTUALLY DID’ KNOW FANNIE — From NBC's Michael Levine — I tried to get in touch via Facebook with Oliver Clark, the man who McCain said probably didn't know what Fannie Mae was before the financial crisis (at Tuesday's debate). Apparently others have done the same.
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The Huffington Post:
McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama “A Guy Of The Street,” Raises Drug Use — Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a McCain campaign co-chairman, edged up to an explicitly racial attack on Barack Obama on Thursday, describing the Illinois Senator as a “guy of the street” before raising his youthful drug use.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Two kinds of fraud — “Acorn” may not exactly be a household word, but it was on the cover of one of the newspapers I read in hard copy today, so it seemed worth getting into a marginal story that the GOP is trying to make central. — The key distinction here is between voter fraud …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“He's Got The Bloodlines” — McCain-Palin supporters at a Palin rally tell us what they think of the “terrorist” running for president. More accusations from McCain supporters in Pennsylvania that Obama is a “commie faggot” and a Muslim terrorist here.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 10/9 — The idea of Barack Obama winning North Carolina or perhaps Indiana, I think we have gotten accustomed to. But Obama winning ... West Virginia, a state where he got barely a quarter of the vote in the Democratic primary? — That's what American Research Group says …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Rothenberg Warns of GOP “Bloodbath” — The horizon looks bleak for House and Senate Republicans. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite — UPDATE, 4 pm: The Cook Political Report is also amping up their predictions of Democratic gains in the House and Senate next month.
Phil Izzo / Wall Street Journal:
Economists Expect U.S. Crisis to Deepen — The U.S. economy has sunk into a recession and government action is critical to stem the damage, according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey. — “We're in the middle of a very dark tunnel,” said Brian Fabbri of BNP Paribas …
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Inside Account of US Eavesdropping on Americans — US Officer's “Phone Sex” Intercepted, Recorded, Shared Across NSA Listening Post — Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped …
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