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Marc Ambinder:
Palin In 2012: The Argument — There's a suspicion in some McCain loyalist precincts that Gov. Sarah Palin is beginning to play the Republican base against John McCain — McCain won't let her campaign in Michigan...McCain won't let her bring up Jeremiah Wright... McCain doesn't like her terrorist pal talks....
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Woman Attacked At ATM, Assailant Carves Letter Into Her Face — Woman Robbed, Attacked With Knife At Bloomfield ATM — PITTSBURGH — A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said. — Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
MEDIA REFUSING TO REPORT, INSISTS CONTRIBUTIONS ARE REAL— DESPITE OCT. 9 NYT REPORT NOTING FICTITIOUS CONTRIBUTORS — Bumped; Sticky. Will remain top story for an hour. Updates linked at post's end. Fresh posts follow this one. — Mark Steyn cautions, though: Stop donating just to test it out.
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Scott / Power Line:
WHO IS JOHN GALT? — We've previously noted the gusher of illegal campaign contributions flowing into the Obama campaign from contributors such as “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will.” More recently, incidents have been reported in which people have seen credit card charges surface suggesting they donated to Barack Obama when they did not.
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: McCain lambastes Bush years — ‘We just let things get completely out of hand’ — NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: — ABOARD THE STRAIGHT TALK AIR — Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare …
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Bloomberg:
Greenspan Concedes to ‘Flaw’ in His Market Ideology — Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami” has engulfed financial markets and conceded that his free-market ideology shunning regulation was flawed.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation — Facing a firing line of questions from Washington lawmakers, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman once considered the infallible maestro of the financial system, admitted on Thursday that he “made a mistake” in trusting that free markets …
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Ross Clark / Times of London:
Far-right Austrian leader sacked for revealing gay affair with Jörg Haider — The successor of the Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider was dismissed yesterday after he revealed a “special” relationship “far beyond” friendship with his former mentor.
Joe Klein / Swampland:
The Full Obama Interview — Q] I want to ask you some questions about the way you make decisions and then some questions about issues. To me the signal decision of this election was the way you chose your vice-president and the way he chose his. You are known for deliberation and being a rational decision-maker.
RADAR:
NYT'S UNFORGETTABLE HIRE: BONO — Like Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter before him, New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal sees something special in a certain teensy Gaelic man who refuses to remove his sunglasses. That's right, the Timesman announced last night …
Associated Press:
Poll: Obama edges ahead of McCain in Montana — Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. — By MATT GOURAS Asscoiated Press Writer HELENA, Mont. (AP) A new poll shows that Democrat Barack Obama could be edging ahead of Republican John McCain in Montana. — Obama is at 44 percent and John …
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Riehl World View
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Has Modest Lead Among Likely Voters — Size of margin four or six points depending on turnout assumptions — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows Barack Obama running ahead of John McCain among likely voters — 50% to 46% using the “traditional” …
The Caucus:
Wardrobe Mysteries Linger — About that wardrobe ... There are still aspects of the Republican National Committee's shopping sprees on behalf of Gov. Sarah Palin and her family that are murky. — Some of the fashion experts consulted Wednesday, for instance, about the $150,000 in purchases …
Michelle Malkin:
Breaking: New poll shows Russell over Murtha, 48-35 — A Pennsylvania source has just leaked me brand spanking new poll data showing GOP upstart Bill Russell leading John Murtha among over 800 probable voters by 48-35. — This comes on top of the Susquehanna poll showing Murtha ahead …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Someone Put On His Thinking Cap — From a reader: … Update: Hey, enraged lefty blog minions emailing me with all this name-calling b.s.: A) Calm down, I was being sarcastic not serious. B) What are you people so furious about? That your candidate will continue to get more fraudulent donations?
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Turning the Page from Campaign Finance Fraud . . . What is the deal with Obama's birth certificate and citizenship status? — Pamela Gellers at Atlas Shrugs raises some apparent shenanigans with the birth certificate the Obama campaign previously produced.
Megan McArdle:
Quiet in the peanut gallery — Matt Taibbi shreds Byron York into little tiny pieces … I love Matt Taibbi's work. I just wish that when he has no idea what he is talking about, he would shut the hell up, rather than making an awkward public. Of course, in this exchange he looks …
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Sara Just / Political Radar:
Hasselbeck to Campaign for Palin — ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: The McCain-Palin campaign's efforts to reach women is about to get a celebrity boost: Elisabeth Hasselbeck is set to join Gov. Sarah Palin on the campaign trail. — “The View” co-host said Thursday the McCain campaign contacted …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
NRSC ad assumes Obama win — The underlying premise of this new ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee: Obama's going to win. — The ad, on behalf of Senator Elizabeth Dole, urges a vote against challenger Kay Hagan as the last bulwark against complete Democratic control:
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
AM Polls Show Surprisingly Large Leads for Obama — New polling this morning from the Big Ten polling consortium and Quinnipiac University present a view of what the world might look like if Barack Obama wins in a landslide. — The Big Ten polls have Obama ahead by double digits in ten Midwestern states …
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Rex Nutting / MarketWatch:
Weekly jobless claims rise 15,000 to 478,000 — Trend in continuing unemployment benefits highest in five years — WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Jobless claims moved higher last week, pointing the way to an increase in the nation's unemployment rate, economists said Thursday.
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PageOneQ:
GOP Mailer discovered: Democrat has ‘radical homosexual’ agenda, will force Boy Scouts to accept gays — A new anti-gay offensive has been launched against Democratic North Carolina state senator and U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan. Campaign literature produced by the North Carolina Republican Party …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
McCain Shifting His Ad Spending From Kerry States To Bush States, A New Analysis Finds — In another sign that John McCain is on the defensive as time runs out, the McCain campaign is shifting its ad money out of blue tossup states and into red tossups and even traditionally red states, according to ad maven Evan Tracey.
Matt / Think Progress:
Gingrich: SNL's Palin skits are ‘slander’ ‘worthy of a lawsuit.’ — Bashing the “elite” media as usual on Fox News last night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich claimed that Saturday Night Live's skits mocking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were “vicious” and a “total distortion of who Governor Palin is.”
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The Trail / Washington Post:
Polls Show McCain Leaning Into a Headwind — A big batch of battleground polls came out early Thursday and brought almost universally bad news for John McCain. The Republican nominee's path to the presidency is now extremely precarious and may depend on something unexpected taking control …
Manu Raju / The Hill:
Jury reports ‘violent outbursts’ in Stevens case — The jury foreman in Sen. Ted Stevens's criminal case has asked Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to dismiss one juror because of her “violent outbursts,” temporarily delaying deliberations in the Alaska Republican's corruption case.
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Sarah Palin: My Wedding Hope for Bristol — Now that Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter has celebrated her 18th birthday, the GOP vice-presidential candidate says she's hoping Bristol and fiancé Levi Johnston - who are expecting a baby in December - will tie the knot well before the date next summer the young couple had been eyeing.
James Pethokoukis / US News:
Money & Business — Home > Money & Business > Capital Commerce > Would Obama, Dems Kill 401(k) Plans? — Would Obama, Dems Kill 401(k) Plans? — I hate to use the “S” word, but the American government would never do something as, well, socialist as seize private pension funds, right?
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Finally, Someone Asked Her — We now know what Gov. Palin thinks about immigration, and the results are not good (h/t Auster): … Now, it was obvious, as McCain's running mate, she had to toe the McCain line. But which McCain line? After the campaign's near-death experience …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Palin Denounces Negotiations Without Preconditions, Supports Negotiations Without Preconditions — One of the virtues of Sarah Palin being badly underbriefed about national security issues, is that she has to rely on common sense to bluff her way through questions, and she keeps accidentally straying from conservative dogma.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DEFINING ‘ELITE’.... It's a little jarring to hear John McCain and Sarah Palin complain about “elites.” We are, after all, talking about two wealthy and powerful Republican politicians. And yet, complain they do. — In the second part of his interview with the members of the Republican ticket …
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