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5:05 AM ET, October 23, 2008

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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 …
Discussion: MyDD, Althouse and AMERICAblog News
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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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
House Republicans Bow to Political Reality  —  Storm clouds are gathering for House Republicans.  Photo by J. Scott Applewhite of the Associated Press  —  With only 13 days left before the November election, the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee is coming to grips …
Discussion: MyDD
Reid Wilson / The Politico:
Republicans out of Musgrave seat, too
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Reid Wilson / The Politico:
NRCC abandons Bachmann
Discussion: Townhall.com, Salon and Hotline On Call
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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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
Sarah Palin's Personal Shopper  —  M  —  ove over Carson Kressley.  A new celebrity shopper has emerged!  —  The attention from Jeanne Cummings's much-talked-about Politico story has naturally focused on the $150,000 in luxury clothing purchased for Sarah Palin at Neiman Marcus, Sak's Fifth Avenue, and Barney's.
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.
Discussion: New York Times and Swampland
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Tax Expert: Palin Has to Declare Clothes
Discussion: Bloomberg and Wonkette
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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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.”
Discussion: VetVoice
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
IN NBC INTERVIEW, PALIN HITS OBAMA
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 …
Think Progress:
Matthews Rips Palin: Somebody Needs To ‘Give Her A Copy Of The Constitution To Read’  —  Earlier this week, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat down for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado.  As ThinkProgress first reported, in response to a question about “[w]hat does the Vice President do …
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Making (and Remaking) of McCain  —  On the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 24, John McCain convened a meeting in his suite at the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan.  Among the handful of campaign officials in attendance were McCain's chief campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt …
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Mike Murphy / Swampland:   Zing the Bling...  I saw the RNC statement on Gov. Palin's $150 …
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 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 …
Discussion: The Agonist
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.
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” …
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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.
Discussion: Swing State Project and Daily Kos
 
 
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New York Times:
Sorry, I Can't Find Your Name
Discussion: Scripting News
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
S&P: We Knew Nothing! Nothing!
Discussion: Angry Bear
Amar C. Bakshi / Washington Post:
How W.Va. Democrats Came to Terms with Obama's Rise
Megan McArdle:
Libertarianism is dead . . . vive le libertarianism!
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Early voting in Evansville
 Earlier Items: 
Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
McCain refuses to say whether he would support Iraq security agreement.»
Discussion: Democrats.com
Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
Andy Is So Right . . . Again
Discussion: Kevin Drum
Charles Mahtesian / The Politico:
McCain's path to victory through Pa.
Discussion: The New Republic and Hot Air
TIME.com:
Tina Fey plays you sort of bubble-headed...
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Poll: Obama Holds Leads in Key States; McCain Attacks Not Swaying Voters
Discussion: Donklephant and TalkLeft
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
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