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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
RNC appears to shell out $150K for Palin fashion — The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
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Pew Research Center:
Growing Doubts About McCain's Judgment, Age and Campaign Conduct — Obama's Lead Widens: 52%-38% — Barack Obama's lead over John McCain has steadily increased since mid-September, when the race was essentially even. Shortly after the first presidential debate on Sept. 26 …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Poll: Obama opens biggest lead over McCain — Dem leads rival by 10 points among registered voters in NBC/WSJ survey — WASHINGTON - With voters' increased confidence in his ability to serve as commander in chief, as well as a majority who now believe he would do a good job as president …
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Opens Double-Digit Lead — New Poll Shows McCain Ceding Ground on Taxes, Values; Palin Loses Shine — WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama has opened up a double-digit lead in the presidential race, with a growing number of voters saying they're now comfortable with the Democratic nominee's values …
Lewis Diuguid / Midwest Voices:
Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black — The “socialist” label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots. — J. Edgar Hoover …
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The Huffington Post:
McCain Accidentally Agrees: Western Pennsylvania Is Racist — Sen. John McCain offered, on Tuesday, what may go down as one of the more awkward moments of this campaign cycle, in which — speaking in Western Pennsylvania — he declared he 'couldn't agree more' with the sentiment …
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Associated Press:
AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
McCain's Camp Shaves Its Ad Targets — Democrats who monitor advertising spending now put at five the number of states where Senator John McCain is reducing his advertising - New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Colorado, Maine and Minnesota. — In essence, Mr. McCain's campaign has decided to spread …
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Rich Lowry / The Corner:
CNN's Rank Dishonesty — Watch this clip from a CNN interview with Sarah Palin (I'm assuming nothing of significance has been edited out by TPM). And then read the context of the quote from Byron's favorable story on how Palin governed from an issue ago: … I'm disgusted, but not surprised.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
INCOMPETENT, STUPID, UNQUALIFIED, CORRUPT, OR ALL OF THE ABOVE?
INCOMPETENT, STUPID, UNQUALIFIED, CORRUPT, OR ALL OF THE ABOVE?
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Terry McSweeney / KGO-TV:
Protestor tries to arrest Rove in SF — SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — There was major political theater involving President Bush's former chief of staff Karl Rove. A protestor tried to arrest Rove for treason Tuesday morning while he was speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association Convention, continuing in San Francisco.
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Desi / Greatscat!:
Another attempt to arrest the nation's most innocent man
Another attempt to arrest the nation's most innocent man
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CNN:
Transcript of Palin interview with CNN — (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin spoke Tuesday to CNN's Drew Griffin. It was her first interview with the network. Here is the transcript. — CNN: You seemed to be very much on your game. You get huge crowds.
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Byron York / The Corner:
Palin and CNN — A bit more on CNN's “quote” from National Review …
Palin and CNN — A bit more on CNN's “quote” from National Review …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama — CLOSING THE DEAL — A Roadmap for Campaign 2008's Homestretch — By Guy Benson (www.guybensonshow.com) and Mary Katharine Ham (www.weeklystandard.com) — Editor and Contributor, Ed Morrissey — WHO ARE WE?
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Ryan / Think Progress:
Palin Claims The Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The U.S. Senate’ — Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does …
Greg Hinz / Chicago Business:
Obama to media: pony up for election night access — (Crain's) — The best-funded political campaign in American history says news organizations will have to pay—in some cases almost $2,000 each—if they want to cover Barack Obama's election-night celebration in Chicago.
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Moe Lane / www.redstate.com:
And *this* is why we all did our happy dance when McCain picked Palin. — You're going to want to watch this one to the end. — Because this is what we wanted, and this is what we're going to be getting from here on in. — I guess that we know now why Biden took the day off …
New York Post:
ROOM DISSERVICE — THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too.
CNN:
Rendell ‘still a little nervous’ about Penn., asks Obama to return — (CNN) — Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has sent two separate memos to the Obama campaign in the past five days requesting that the Democratic Presidential candidate—as well as Hillary and Bill Clinton—return to campaign in Pennsylvania …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Police prepare for unrest — Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest. — Public safety officials said in interviews with The Hill that the election …
EW.com:
Lorne Michaels: How ‘SNL’ Got Sarah Palin — ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How incredibly fortunate was it that the election's breakout star also happens to look exactly like Tina? — LORNE MICHAELS: There was all that, and it's the first election with a star in a long time.
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Breitbart.tv:
WHILE MUCH OF MEDIA IGNORES, MSNBC AND NBC MISLEAD ON BIDEN AUDIO — In reporting on Joe Biden's controversial statements about the world “testing” a President Obama, both NBC and MSNBC played similar but milder audio of statements made by Biden in San Francisco on Saturday rather …
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