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Christopher Hass / Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
100,000 in St. Louis, MO: “All I can say is, wow.” — Barack just concluded his speech underneath the Gatway Arch in St. Louis, in front of a record crowd of over 100,000 people. “All I can say is, wow,” Barack said as he took the stage. … Read the full remarks of Barack's speech in St. Louis, as prepared for delivery . . .
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Washington Wire:
Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri — Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from St. Louis. — Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event. — The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon …
New York Times:
Candidates Vie for Pieces of a Changing Electoral Map — ST. LOUIS — There was the feel of a political world turned upside down on Saturday as Senator John McCain found himself defending such traditional bastions as North Carolina and Virginia, while Senator Barack Obama tramped through Missouri …
The Trail / Washington Post:
Obama Draws 100,000 in Missouri — (Linda Davidson / The Washington Post) — ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A record-breaking 100,000 people cheered Sen. Barack Obama under the Gateway Arch on the Mississippi River, by far the biggest stateside crowd drawn by the Democratic nominee.
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Ben Smith's Blogs:
100,000 people — Barack Obama apparently attracted more people …
100,000 people — Barack Obama apparently attracted more people …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Pfotenhauer Insults Virginians: ‘Real Virginia’ Is Only Where McCain Is Winning — On MSNBC this morning, McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer asserted that “real Virginia” does not include Northern Virginia: … MSNBC host Kevin Corke gave Pfotenhauer a chance to revise her answer, telling her …
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The Trail / Washington Post:
McCain Adviser Suggests NoVa Not ‘Real Virginia’ — By Matthew Mosk and Christopher Twarowski — Sen. John McCain headlined a boisterous outdoor rally in Woodbridge, Va., today, while his campaign took heat for suggesting the populous region was not part of “real Virginia.”
CNN:
Fact check: Obama said he would ‘spread his wealth around’? — The Statement — Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, during a speech on October 16 outside Philadelphia, recounted the story of “Joe the Plumber,” a man who held a conversation with Democratic candidate Sen. Barack …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 10/18 — John McCain has once again improved his position in the national tracking polls, having gained ground in 4 of the [5] 6 trackers that published today (Rasmussen and IBD/TIPP were the exceptions). ** Our model now perceives that Obama has come somewhat off his peak numbers …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Racists for Obama? — New polling and a trickle of stories from the battleground states suggest that Sen. Barack Obama's coalition includes one unlikely group: white voters with negative views of African-Americans. — Race has become the elephant in the room of the 2008 presidential campaign …
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Sam Schulman / Weekly Standard:
Class Will Tell — Why is Bill Ayers a respectable member of the upper middle class and Sarah Palin contemptible? — Pour yourself a Johnnie Walker Black and remember. The presidential campaign was going to be about sex—the sex of the inevitable winning candidate. Then it was going to be about race.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Dissecting Cindy McCain's private world — The New York Times today has a very strange, lengthy front-page story on Cindy McCain — by Jodi Kantor and David Halbfinger — dredging up some unpleasant episodes in the distant past of her private life without adding any new information …
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Behind McCain, Outsider in Capital Wanting Back In
Behind McCain, Outsider in Capital Wanting Back In
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Michelle Bachmann gives voice to the right's darkest impulses — Chris Matthews just gave Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Outer Wingnuttia, all the rope she wanted yesterday on Hardball, and boy did she make a handy little noose with it. — First Matthews tried to get Bachmann to tell his audience …
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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.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
A tale of two networks — Carl Cameron and Ed Henry are both top-flight reporters. — But they work for networks which are viewed in, shall we say, differing lights by Republican activists. — So when Fox's Cameron and CNN's Henry took to opposing risers today at a McCain rally in Woodbridge …
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Paul J. Nyden / Charleston Gazette:
Some early W.Va. voters angry over switched votes — Jackson County touch-screens switched votes, 3 residents say — At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win. — Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains Lead — Among registered voters, Obama now leads 50% to 42% — PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report from Wednesday through Friday, including two days of interviewing after Wednesday night's final presidential debate …
Marc Ambinder:
McCain's Cosmological Breakthrough: Unreality Is Expanding — The McCain campaign has broken through a heretofore impenetrable barrier in quantum physics, experimentally proving the existence of unseen dimensions and, in the process, setting three of its surrogates on a pathway towards winning …