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Martina Stewart / CNN:
Obama seeks special prosecutor in fraud inquiry — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama campaign announced Friday that it is asking Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy.
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Mary Pat Flaherty / Washington Post:
Thousands Face Mix-Ups In Voter Registrations — In New Databases, Many Are Wrongly Flagged as Ineligible — Thousands of voters across the country must reestablish their eligibility in the next three weeks in order for their votes to count on Nov. 4, a result of new state registration systems that are incorrectly rejecting them.
New York Times:
Behind McCain, Outsider in Capital Wanting Back In — Cindy McCain was new to Washington and not yet 30 when she arrived at a luncheon for Congressional spouses to discover a problem with her name tag. — It read “Carol McCain.” That was the well-liked wife John McCain had left to marry Cindy …
Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Signs that Republican Colin Powell will support Barack Obama for president — WASHINGTON - After months of playing political Hamlet, Colin Powell is finally ready to tell America who he likes for President - and the smart money says Barack Obama is Powell's choice.
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Stadium Star — Palin didn't need Greek columns. People react to her because they believe she represents what the Greeks established.
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Bill Ruthhart / Indianapolis Star:
GOP's new star rocks Verizon — VP hopeful hits hard at Obama in Indiana — NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Promising to “get this nation back on the right track,” GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin urged a raucous crowd of nearly 20,000 Hoosiers on Friday to keep Indiana a Republican state on Election Day.
Ross Douthat:
What Is The Conservative Cocoon? — Ach, okay, I'll wade back in to this debate one more time, because I think Mark Steyn has slightly mistaken the thrust of this post: … Just to clarify: Sarah Palin's Alaska is not the conservative cocoon. Neither is Tim Pawlenty's Minnesota …
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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Cocoon: The Return — On this business of “elite cocoons” and “conservative cocoons”:
Cocoon: The Return — On this business of “elite cocoons” and “conservative cocoons”:
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CNN:
Biden lashes out at Palin's ‘pro-America’ comment — (CNN) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden ripped into recent comments by his Republican counterpart that suggested that some places in the U.S. are more “pro-America” than others. — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a fundraiser …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Obama's Ad Effort Swamps McCain and Nears Record — PHILADELPHIA — Senator Barack Obama is days away from breaking the advertising spending record set by President Bush in the general election four years ago, having unleashed an advertising campaign of a scale and complexity unrivaled in the television era.
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Sarah Palin's Future — Alaska's most valuable resource. — Six thousand tickets were grabbed up in three hours for Sarah Palin's speech here at the baseball field of Elon University. An even larger crowd—9,000 inside, 3,000 outside—showed up across the state in Greenville a few days earlier.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Obama is the choice — The 44th president of the United States will take office in an uncertain and dangerous time for this country. The challenges we face both overseas and here at home are complex and unfamiliar, and the road ahead is likely to be very different from the road we have traveled to get here.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Viewed as Winner of Third Debate — Completes “sweep” of three debates for Obama — PRINCETON, NJ — Round three of the presidential debates went to Barack Obama, according to a one-night USA Today/Gallup poll of debate watchers conducted Oct. 16, completing a sweep of the three debates for Obama.
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David Brown / Washington Post:
Questions Linger About McCain's Prognosis After Skin Cancer — In May, the presidential campaign of 72-year-old cancer survivor John McCain tried to put to rest doubts about his health by allowing a few reporters to inspect his medical records, but the effort has failed to quell questions …
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
Barack Obama vows to ‘change the world’ — Barack Obama has vowed that he will “change the world” even as he urged his supporters to guard against complacency. — The supremely confident demeanour and exalted rhetoric of the Democratic nominee at a New Hampshire event betrayed that he is a man convinced he is poised to make history.
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Is Anybody Happy? — Now is the October of our discontent. — First of all, George W. Bush showed up on TV Friday morning to reassure the nation. What could possibly be worse? — Everybody knows that anything our president says is very likely wrong, and certainly won't happen.
CNN:
Fact Check: Would McCain make ‘drastic cuts’ in Medicare? — The Statement: — At a campaign stop Friday, October 17, in Roanoke, Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama took aim at Sen. John McCain's health care plan. “The Wall Street Journal recently reported that it was actually worse than we thought.
Rory Carroll / Guardian:
20bn barrel oil discovery puts Cuba in the big league — Friends and foes have called Cuba many things - a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny - but no one has called it lucky, until now . — Mother nature, it emerged this week, appears to have blessed the island …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Bastards: Obama Cultist Takes Sign from McCain/Palin Supporter And Bashes Her In the Face With It; Media Not Interested, Too Busy Conjuring “Kill Him!” Shouts out of Thin Air — You. Rotten. Bastards. — Do you support beating women, Senator Obama?