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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 …
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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 …
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Reid Wilson / The Politico:
Republicans out of Musgrave seat, too — Last week, Republicans were forced to make difficult financial decisions that impacted several of their top challengers. Today, those hard choices are impacting incumbents. — Multiple sources with knowledge of GOP spending decisions tell …
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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.
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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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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.
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 …
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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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
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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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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 …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
In New McCain Robocall, Rudy Giuliani Suggests Obama Opposes Jailing Murderers And Rapists — It was perhaps predictable that the task of recording the worst of McCain's robo-slime — the worst so far, at least — would fall to Rudy Giuliani. — Giuliani has recorded a new McCain robocall …
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TIME.com:
Tina Fey plays you sort of bubble-headed... Sarah: “That's funny. I play her bubble-headed too when I imitate her. — ...but you don't get to be governor without being smart. Do you think you're intellectual? — Sarah: Yehhh-sss. And you have to be up on not only current events …
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Washington Post:
Obama's $175,000 Donor? — There have been a smattering of incidents reported in which people have seen credit card charges surface suggesting they donated to Barack Obama when they did not. — Now comes the story of Mary T. Biskup, of Manchester, Missouri.