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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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New York Times:
Day's Campaigning Shows an Inverted Political Plane — ST. LOUIS — There was the feel of a political world turned upside down on Saturday as Senator John McCain found himself defending North Carolina and Virginia, while Senator Barack Obama was greeted by huge crowds in Missouri …
Carrie Budoff Brown / Ben Smith's Blogs:100,000 people — Barack Obama apparently attracted more people …
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
Julia Hoppock / Political Punch:McCain Adviser Says Northern Virginia Not “Real” Virginia
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:Michelle Bachmann gives voice to the right's darkest impulses
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:McCain adviser: Northern Va not the “real Virginia.”
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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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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.
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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The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin On SNL With Tina Fey, Weekend Update's Alaska Rap, Baldwin And Wahlberg (VIDEO) — Read More: Palin Alaska Rap, Palin SNL Rap, Palin Weekend Update, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Alec Baldwin On Snl, Sarah Palin Mark Wahlberg Snl, Sarah Palin On Snl, Sarah Palin Saturday Ngiht Live Video …
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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.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:Sarah Palin: ‘Hotter in person’ (Baldwin)
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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
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
What's So Awful About “Spreading the Wealth”? — It is hard to imagine we've heard the last of Barack Obama's interactions with William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. But lately John McCain seems much more interested in talking about another Obama encounter. It's the now infamous conversation …
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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:
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 …
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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