To Avoid Being ‘Depressed,’ Palin Skimps on Campaign News  —  GREENSBORO, N.C. — No wonder GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin harbors such hostility toward the mainstream media: her staff imposes limits on her access to it.  —  During a fundraiser here that raised $800,000 last night …

Barack Obama for President  —  THE NOMINATING process this year produced two unusually talented and qualified presidential candidates.  There are few public figures we have respected more over the years than Sen. John McCain.  Yet it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.

Polls Cause Campaigns to Change Their Itineraries  —  Confronting an increasingly bleak electoral map, top aides to Senator John McCain said Thursday that they were searching for a “narrow-victory scenario” and would focus in the final weeks on a dwindling number of states, using mailings …

A Liberal Supermajority  —  Get ready for ‘change’ we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933.  —  If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it.

Palin's e-mails?  That'll be $15 million  —  Even at that price, many records won't be available until after the election  —  Sarah Palin's office has discovered a renewable resource to bring millions of dollars into Alaska's economy: the governor's e-mails.

The Boss, the Piano Man and the Candidate  —  Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel were well into their act - playing at the same time, the same stage - when Senator Barack Obama arrived late Thursday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom.  —  Mr. Obama waited in the wings for nearly an hour before taking the stage.

Thinking About Obama  —  We've been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn't been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control.  This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis.  And yet there hasn't been a moment when he has displayed rage …

Oliver Stone's Vision Thing: Bush, the Family  —  The megamillion-dollar question that hovers over Oliver Stone's queasily enjoyable “W.,” his Oedipal story about the rise and fall, fall, fall of George W. Bush is: why?  Neither a pure (nor impure) sendup of the president nor a wholesale takedown …

Report from Palin rally  —  Newspaper stories from Palin's rally from myself and Joe Killian.  —  Update: Bloggers note: there is editing throughout this post at 10 a.m. or so this morning to clean up grammar and spelling errors committed at the end of a 16 hour day.

Let's Get Fiscal  —  The Dow is surging!  No, it's plunging!  No, it's surging!  No, it's ...  Nevermind.  While the manic-depressive stock market is dominating the headlines, the more important story is the grim news coming in about the real economy.  It's now clear that rescuing …

BREAKING NEWS: ANGRY FRANKEN CONFRONTS COLEMAN AFTER DEBATE; MRS. FRANKEN RUNS ON STAGE TO GET FRANKEN AWAY FROM COLEMAN  —  UPDATE #2: The video starts just as Mrs. Franken has rushed to the stage.  The camera is fixed, so we don't see Mrs. Franken until she gets to the stage.

The Hidden History Of The American Electorate  —  OUR ANALYSIS OF EXIT-POLL RESULTS FROM FIVE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS REVEALS WHICH DEMOGRAPHIC SUBGROUPS TEND TO SWING AND WHICH ONES RARELY MOVE.  —  With anxiety over the nation's direction approaching hurricane force, the 2008 election …

LETTERMAN CONFRONTS MCCAIN ON LIDDY.... John McCain recently annoyed David Letterman quite a bit, blowing off a scheduled interview to talk to Katie Couric.  The “Late Show” host has been mocking McCain, rather mercilessly, ever since.  —  Hoping to make amends, McCain appeared on Letterman's show …