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The Huffington Post:
Chuck Todd On McCain-Palin: No Chemistry, No Trust, Possibly No Chance — Commenting on a new joint interview with John McCain and Sarah Palin, NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd described the Republican ticket as lacking cohesion, chemistry, and (he hinted) trust.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OFF THE RAILS — MSNBC just ran what we can only call an extraordinary interview with NBC News' Chuck Todd and Brian Williams. They were discussing the interview NBC just did with John McCain and Sarah Palin. We'll have the video shortly. But what really stood out was the candidness …
The Huffington Post:
GOP Pulling Its Ads From Bachmann's Race, Media Buyers Say — Five days after Rep. Michele Bachmann went on a McCarthy-esque rant suggesting Barack Obama was unpatriotic and urging the major newspapers of the country to investigate anti-American sentiment in Congress, the national Republican political parties are running for cover.
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New York Times:
$150,000 Wardrobe for Palin May Alter Tailor-Made Image — Sarah Palin's wardrobe joined the ranks of symbolic political excess on Wednesday, alongside John McCain's multiple houses and John Edwards's $400 haircut, as Republicans expressed fear that weeks of tailoring Ms. Palin as an average …
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
GOP donors critical of Palin's pricey threads — The Republican National Committee's $150,000 investment in Sarah Palin's wardrobe has prompted some teeth gnashing among the party's big donors about its political sensibility and a feisty debate among campaign finance specialists about its legality.
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:Sarah Palin's Personal Shopper
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zombietime:
William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire — William Ayers is a communist. But don't take my word for it. He said so himself: — And not some nicey-nice peace-and-love kind of communist. Through his group the Weather Underground, Ayers was planning to “seize power” …
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Stephanie Bernhard / CNN:
3,000 professors sign to support Ayers — Editor's Note: Stephanie Bernhard is a writer for the Brown Daily Herald, the leading news source for Brown University. This article was brought to CNN.com by UWIRE, the leading provider of student-generated content.
Journalism.org:
WINNING THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN — How the Press Reported the 2008 General Election — The media coverage of the race for president has not so much cast Barack Obama in a favorable light as it has portrayed John McCain in a substantially negative one, according to a new study of the media since …
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Sky News:
John McCain POW Footage Released — Footage of John McCain being interviewed as a bedridden prisoner during the Vietnam War has been released by the French national archive. — The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Palin stumped when asked to explain her preconditions for meeting foreign leaders.» — Gov. Sarah Palin has attacked Sen. Barack Obama for being “so off base in his proclamation that he would meet with some of these leaders around our world who would seek to destroy America and that, and without preconditions being met.”
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Paul Bedard / US News:
GOP “Death List” Predicts Democratic Blowout in the House — Voter displeasure with the war and economy, coupled with Sen. Barack Obama's popularity, has the House GOP running for cover. Even though polls have shown that Americans don't like congressional Democrats any more …
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Nitya / Political Radar:
Palin Says Vice President “In Charge Of” Senate — ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala and Z. Byron Wolf Report: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said in a local interview that the vice president is “in charge of” the U.S. Senate and “can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes” …
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New York Times:
Struggling to Keep Up as the Crisis Raced On — “I feel like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Who are these guys that just keep coming?” — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. — It was the weekend of Sept. 13, and the moment Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had feared …
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Marc Ambinder:
The AP/GFK Poll: Evangelical Surge? — Curious... 44% of the likely voter sample in the AP/GFK-Roper poll — Matt Drudge's “shocker” of the day, which has Obama up by one — are self-identified evangelicals. That's about double the weighted average that pollsters generally assume. — Al;s
New York Post:
BIDEN'S BUNGLES: A BLATANT BIAS — Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate prompted a small wave of warnings about Biden's propensity for gaffes. But no one imagined even in a worse-case scenario such a spectacular bomb as telling donors Sunday to “gird your loins” …
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
How the Seattle Times Is Trying to Take Out Darcy Burner — Emily Heffter at the Seattle Times just published a story falsely alleging that Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree in economics aren't true. The story is literally made up out of whole cloth.
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