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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
CBS Poll: Uncommitted Voters Say Obama Won Final Debate — As in the previous debates, CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's presidential debate. — In the first presidential debate …
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CNN:
Poll: Debate watchers say Obama wins — HEMPSTEAD, New York (CNN) — A majority of debate watchers thought that Sen. Barack Obama won the third and final presidential debate, according to a national poll conducted at the end of the debate. — Fifty-eight percent of debate watchers questioned …
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McCain, Obama go head to head in last debate — HEMPSTEAD, New York (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and Democrat Sen. Barack Obama faced off at Hofstra University Wednesday night in their last debate before Election Day. Bob Schieffer of CBS was the moderator.
The New / The Caucus:
First Impressions on the Last Debate — There are probably going to be a lot of Republicans who wished that Senator John McCain had come out so intensely against Senator Barack Obama at the first debate - - including, it seems a fair-guess, his running-mate Gov. Sarah Palin.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The Final Presidential Debate: First Thoughts and Who Won? — The final debate may not have contained any knockout punches, but it was perhaps the most spirited of the three. (CHARLES DHARAPAK/AFP/Getty Images) — The debates of the 2008 presidential election are now over …
Washington Post:
Exclusive: Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch — BY JAMES V. GRIMALDI — Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCain decided to resolve an old problem — the lack of cellular telephone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona …
Time Edit / Swampland:
Undecideds Laughing At, Not With, McCain — From TIME's Amy Sullivan: — In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Stan Greenberg's Focus Group: “Decisive” for Obama — As I type this, Stan Greenberg is briefing reporters on his focus group of undecided voters in Colorado. He said the respondents felt Obama “won” and that the results were “more decisive than either of the last two.”
Washington Wire:
Who Will Joe Plumber Vote For? — Susan Davis reports on the presidential debate. — Move over Joe Six-Pack. — Rivals John McCain and Barack Obama offered a new moniker tonight to describe the everyday voter: Joe Plumber. — McCain first made the reference in attacking Obama's economic proposals …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Joe: Obama's ‘tap dance almost as good as Sammy Davis, Jr.’ — Katie gets the first interview with Joe Wurzelbacher and, like everyone else in America, he talks like a pundit. — “McCain was solid in his performance,” he says. “I still don't know where he stands,” he says of Obama.
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Ace / minx.cc:
BRUNNER COMPELLED BY COURT TO ADMIT SHE'S BEEN CONCEALING TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNMATCHED REGISTRATIONS FROM LOCAL BOARDS OF ELECTIONS UPDATE: NON-RESIDENT OBOTS FRAUDULENTLY VOTING IN OHIO — Updated: The tip was accurate, but the Cleveland Plain Dealer got the story out first. See update after background.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:Court Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters
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Andrew M. Seder / The Times Leader:
Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded — SCRANTON - The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday's Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
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David Singleton / Scranton Times-Tribune:Breaking news: Secret Service investigating threat from Scranton Palin rally
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
DEBATE LIVEBLOGGING. — 10:33: Debate over. McCain scored the most points, and lost the debate. He was looking to land shots, and often succeeded. But the effort to find openings and vulnerabilities left him with little time to appear presidential. And if he connected with jabs, he never found his knockout blow.
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Fox News:
Hip-Hop-Dancing Colin Powell Fuels Speculation He'll Endorse Obama — Colin Powell showed off his hip-hop moves at an ‘Africa Rising’ celebration in London Tuesday, fueling speculation that the former secretary of state is about to endorse Barack Obama for president. — FOXNews.com
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Working for the Working- Class Vote — For a guy who just four years ago was running his first statewide campaign, Barack Obama has made startlingly few missteps as a presidential candidate. But the moment Obama would most like to take back now, if he could, was the one last April when …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Surprise: Negative ad that hits Obama on Fannie and Freddie proves highly effective — How long has the righty blogosphere been screaming at the RNC to go nuclear on this? No ad we've posted this year got as much grassroots buzz as that “What Just Happened?” dynamo that leveled the Dems on this same subject.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:Voting for Obama anyway
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
INITIAL REACTION — The consensus from initial reactions is that this was McCain's best of the three debates. And I'm not sure I disagree with that. One of the best sum-ups I saw was actually from Republican Mike Murphy, which we'll show you shortly. I think that in formal debating terms …
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
I Just Don't Get — any of the insta polls, which seem to give it to Obama.
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Lynn Sweet:
McCain misleading public in role Ayers played in Obama political career — WASHINGTON—Barack Obama continues to be attacked by John McCain and other Republicans for his relationship with Bill Ayers, the former terrorist turned respected Chicago educator. Obama served on civic boards …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Hasn't Closed the Sale — Both candidates continue to tinker with their strategies. — In the campaign's final two weeks, voters will take a last serious look at both presidential candidates. The outcome of the race isn't cast in stone yet. — Barack Obama holds a 7.3% lead …
Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
Something New — McCain is doing something tonight that not only he hasn't done before, but neither have the media — he is holding Obama to account for his actual record of comments and actions, and he is stating his position in terms that, IMHO, can and I believe will resonate with many Americans.
Mark Halperin / Time:
Grading the Final Presidential Debate — Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks during the third presidential debate with Republican candidate John McCain at Hofstra University October 15, 2008 — Substance: — Intelligent, knowledgeable, and an earnest explainer, as always, but to no real effect.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Snap Polls — CNN who won the debate? — Obama 58, McCain 31: — CBS who won the debate? — Obama 53, McCain 22: — McCain had some okay jabs at Obama that I think impressed some of the CNN panelists and, especially, got the conservative ones jazzed up.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Pressing All the Buttons, McCain Attacks, but Obama Stays Steady — Senator John McCain was in a groove early in the presidential debate on Wednesday night, looking Senator Barack Obama in the eye and chiding him over taxes, over his backbone in standing up to Democrats and over the Obama campaign's portrayal …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
The reaction shots — McCain has had some bad moments in the reaction shots.
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The Jed Report:
McCain's Eye Rolls: Raw Video Montage — Here's a clip of about 90 seconds worth of John McCain's condescending, snotty, and childish grimaces, grunts, and eye rolls that turned off so many voters during tonight's debate. — I'm planning on using some of this video to make a shorter …
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