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Colin Powell endorses Obama — (CNN) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama, citing the Democrat's “ability to inspire” and the “inclusive nature of his campaign.” — “He has both style and substance.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Colin Powell endorses Obama — Saying the Democratic nominee could “not only electrify our country but electrify our world,” Colin Powell crossed party lines this morning and announced his support for Barack Obama. — Powell made his announcement on “Meet the Press.” He said he had no plans to campaign for Obama.
MSNBC:
Powell endorses Obama for president — Republican ex-secretary of state calls Democrat ‘transformational figure’ — WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for president on Sunday, criticizing his own Republican Party for what he called …
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John McCormick / The Swamp:
Barack Obama gets Colin Powell backing — Sen. Barack Obama's Democratic presidential bid has won the backing of former Secretary of State Colin Powell in a much anticipated endorsement from a Republican who has impressive foreign policy credentials. — The endorsement came during an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press.”
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Elisabeth Bumiller / The Caucus:
Powell Endorses Obama — Updated WASHINGTON—Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president on Sunday morning as a candidate who was reaching out in a “more diverse and inclusive way across our society” and offering a “calm, patient, intellectual, steady approach” to the nation's problems.
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Obama Raised Record $150 Million in September — The Obama campaign announced this morning that it had raised a record $150 million last month, and had added 632,000 new donors to its total. — The amount raised shattered the campaign's record from August.
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Obama raises record $150 million in September — DUNN, North Carolina (CNN) — Barack Obama's campaign announced Sunday the Democratic presidential candidate raised $150 million in donations in September, setting a new high water mark in campaign fundraising.
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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:
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
On ‘SNL,’ Fey as Palin, and Palin as Palin — Anyone tuning in to “Saturday Night Live” hoping to see side-by-side versions of Gov. Sarah Palin — the real thing and the Tina Fey version — would have been disappointed. — But Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee …
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The Huffington Post:Sarah Palin On SNL With Tina Fey, Weekend Update's Alaska Rap …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:Sarah Palin: ‘Hotter in person’ (Baldwin)
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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: Obama 47.8%, McCain 45.1% — McCain slowly gains on Obama — UTICA, New York - Republican John McCain continued a slow advance on Democrat Barack Obama in the race for President, moving back within three percentage points as the race begins to head down the stretch run …
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Houston Chronicle:
The Chronicle endorses Barack Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president of the United States — Rarely in our country's history has the electorate gone to the polls to choose a new president in such challenging times with more at stake for the nation.
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The Huffington Post:
The Palin Plunge: Voters Sour On McCain VP Pick — The more voters learn about Sarah Palin, the more wary they become. Once the focus of post-convention Republican euphoria, the Alaska Governor is now viewed as a serious liability to the McCain campaign. — As it stands, Palin's polling numbers …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Why I Blog — THE WORD blog is a conflation of two words: Web and log. It contains in its four letters a concise and accurate self-description: it is a log of thoughts and writing posted publicly on the World Wide Web. In the monosyllabic vernacular of the Internet, Web log soon became the word blog.
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Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
Three Trends and a Train Wreck — HOW did the world's financial system get into such a mess? It's tempting to blame specific politicians, decisions and laws (or the lack thereof), and leave it at that. — While it's certainly true that a great number of serious, identifiable mistakes have been made …
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