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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 …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
“Real” America Looks Different to Palin, Obama — Yesterday, at a fundraiser in Greensboro, North Carolina, Sarah Palin said the following: … Palin refers to the fact that the cities and towns she has gotten to visit represent the “real America”. So what exactly do these places look like?
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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 …
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.”
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
McCain aide says he's strong in ‘real’ Virginia
McCain aide says he's strong in ‘real’ Virginia
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Julia Hoppock / Political Punch:
McCain Adviser Says Northern Virginia Not “Real” Virginia
McCain Adviser Says Northern Virginia Not “Real” Virginia
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain adviser: Northern Va not the “real Virginia.”
McCain adviser: Northern Va not the “real Virginia.”
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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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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 …
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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John / Verum Serum:
Crossing Paths Daily: Obama and Ayers Shared an Office (Update: For Three Years) — It's nice to be the guy getting tips for once instead of the guy sending them. Yesterday I got two great tips from Morgen, a reader who had found my earlier posts digging into the Obama Ayers connection.
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Zombie / zomblog:
Barack Obama's review of William Ayers' book — On December 21, 1997, Barack Obama wrote a short review of William Ayers' book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court, which had recently been published by Beacon Press. Here's a photo of how the review appeared in the Chicago Tribune:
Greta Van Susteren / Fox News:
“You have not tried to find Barack Obama's drug dealer” — Gloves are off ....Big Time!!! Look for blood on the floor!! Mrs. McCain's lawyer fires off a letter to the New York Times! See the letter to Keller of the New York Times below: — Note from me: I am told we have this letter independently - see below.
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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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New York Times:
Day's Campaigning Shows an Inverted Political Plane — While John McCain was defending such traditional bastions as North Carolina and Virginia, Barack Obama was in Missouri, once considered safe for the Republicans.
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Elwyn Tinklenberg / Daily Kos:
(Update 4) Kossacks, Thank You and Michele Bachmann, $488,127.30 raised! — The last few hours have been nothing short of astounding. Since Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared on MSNBC's Hardball earlier tonight, there's been a deluge of support unlike anything we have seen. — Kossacks:
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.
The Huffington Post:
Obama Launches Own ‘Joe The Plumber’ Robocall — Barack Obama's campaign is trotting out its own “Joe the Plumber” to counteract efforts by John McCain to make inroads on the white working class vote. — A reader in Colorado sends over word that the state Democratic Party and the Obama camp …
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Marc Ambinder
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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John / Power Line:
SARAH DOES SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — It's a mistake, I'm afraid. It's not that I lack confidence in Governor Palin; I don't. But I think it's almost always a mistake to visit an enemy's home turf without a clear understanding that you are among enemies. — The Saturday Night Live people are Democrats.
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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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Los Angeles Times:
Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans — “I am not a Republican,” insisted Karen Ashcraft, 47, a pet clinic manager from Ventura who said she was duped by a signature gatherer into joining the GOP. “I certainly . . . won't sign anything in front of a grocery store ever again.”