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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
Pfotenhauer Insults Virginians: ‘Real Virginia’ Is Only Where McCain Is Winning
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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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 …
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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 …
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:
See-Dubya / Michelle Malkin:
Oh, these are the people in your neighborhood... Ex-guest blogger See-dubya here: — Hey, I'm a retired blogger now, and the best thing about retirement is that, rather than keeping up with the news, I get the chance to just settle back and read books now and then.
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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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Dissecting Cindy McCain's private world
Dissecting Cindy McCain's private world
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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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Jules Crittenden, American Power, The New Republic, JammieWearingFool, Associated Press and alicublog
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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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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.
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:
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 …
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.
Stephen Majors / Cincinnati.com:
Deters subpoenas voter records — Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who serves as John McCain's Southwest Ohio campaign chairman, has requested personal information for some individuals who registered and immediately cast a ballot during a weeklong period that ended earlier this month.
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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