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12:30 PM ET, October 29, 2008

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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations  —  Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed.
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Scott / Power Line:
OBAMA SHRUGGED: THE WEBSITE
Discussion: Obama Shrugged, TBogg and The Corner
Mark Steyn / The Corner:   Holding All the Cards  —  On the grubby little racket …
Bill Dyer / Townhall.com:   Obama campaign's deliberate invitation to pre-paid credit-card fraud …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Conservatives plan secret post-election strategy session  —  Two days after next week's election, top conservatives will gather at the Virginia weekend home of one of the movement's most prominent members to begin a conversation about their role in the GOP and how best to revive a party …
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New York Times:
Win or Lose, Many See Palin as Future of Party  —  Whether the Republican presidential ticket wins or loses on Tuesday, a group of prominent conservatives are planning to meet the next day to discuss the way forward, and whatever the outcome, Gov. Sarah Palin will be high on the agenda.
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
GOP split over Palin's future role in the party
Discussion: New York Times and PrairiePundit
Africanpress / African Press International:
Obama's campaign manager offers 3 million dollars to API in connection with Michelle Obama tape to be aired by Fox News Network  —  Six hours after the release of information by API on the planned broadcast by Fox News Network of the Michelle Obama tape, in accordance with an agreement …
Discussion: Macsmind and GINA COBB
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
The man behind ‘fair and balanced’
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Dr. Sanity
Africanpress / African Press International:
The Michelle Obama tapes to be aired any day/time from now …
Discussion: GINA COBB and JammieWearingFool
a Times / Los Angeles Times:
McCain campaign accuses L.A. Times of ‘suppressing’ Obama video  —  The Times says its promise to a source prevents the paper from posting the video, which shows Barack Obama praising Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi at a 2003 banquet.  The story first appeared in April.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama donors get access to top advisers  —  Aides to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) scheduled pricey luncheons, roundtables, readings, V.I.P. receptions, dinners and policy dinners with campaign officials and advisers, offering donors a taste of his potential administration.
Wendy Button / The Daily Beast:
So Long, Democrats  —  How Obama and Palin Redefined Political Sex Appeal by Tina Brown  —  A speechwriter for Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on why she's voting McCain.  —  Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party.  Not anymore.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Accuracy Of Polls a Question In Itself  —  Could the polls be wrong?  —  Sen. John McCain and his allies say that they are.  The country, they say, could be headed to a 2008 version of the famous 1948 upset election, with McCain in the role of Harry S. Truman and Sen. Barack Obama as Thomas E. Dewey …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Obama Infomercial, a Closing Argument to the Everyman  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama will use his prime-time half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night to make what is effectively a closing argument to a national audience of millions.  At times he will speak directly into the camera …
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Obama infomercial: Smart politics or risky overkill?
Discussion: MSNBC and TIME.com
Anne Ryman / Arizona Republic:
Obama neck and neck with McCain in Arizona  —  Sen. John McCain's once-comfortable lead in Arizona has all but evaporated, according to a new poll that has the underdog Republican presidential candidate struggling in his own backyard.  —  With less than a week until Election Day …
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Consumers Feel the Next Crisis: It's Credit Cards  —  First came the mortgage crisis.  Now comes the credit card crisis.  —  After years of flooding Americans with credit card offers and sky-high credit lines, lenders are sharply curtailing both, just as an eroding economy squeezes consumers.
Associated Press:
AP EXCLUSIVE: Obama ahead or tied in 8 key states  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama, gunning for a national landslide, now leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is essentially tied with John McCain in two other Republican red states, according to new AP-GfK battleground polling.
Washington Post:
The Real Problem With Obama's Tax Plan  —  We've heard a lot this month about how Sen. Barack Obama's tax plans would affect Joe the Plumber — the Ohio man who recently asked the Democratic nominee whether Obama planned to raise his taxes.  Opponents of Obama seized on the incident to argue that his middle-class tax cuts are a scam.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Laying the Groundwork for the Backfire  —  Every time I read Ezra Klein pooh-pooing Barack Obama's domestic agenda, I feel a bit baffled.  He's running on a platform that promises universal preschool, dramatic cuts in carbon emissions and investments in clean energy infrastructure …
Campbell Brown / CNN:
Commentary: Obama breaks promise on campaign finance  —  Editor's note: Campbell Brown anchors CNN's “Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull” at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays.  She delivered this commentary during the “Cutting through the Bull” segment of Tuesday night's broadcast.
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Sen. Lieberman likely to lose his gavel in massive reshuffle being discussed  —  Democratic leaders are discussing a major reshuffling of Senate committee chairmanships, according to multiple sources, and the proposed changes include ousting Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) from his coveted chairmanship.
Discussion: www.redstate.com and Emptywheel
Boston Globe:
Obama on defense in Pa. as McCain senses an opening  —  CHESTER, Pa. - This is football country, so let's use a football analogy: In the closing days of the presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama has the ball and he's driving deep into opposing territory.  But John McCain is looking for a sack.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Sleepless in Tehran  —  I've always been dubious about Barack Obama's offer to negotiate with Iran — not because I didn't believe that it was the right strategy, but because I didn't believe we had enough leverage to succeed.  And negotiating in the Middle East without leverage is like playing baseball without a bat.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Commentary
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
ACORN: Legal Latino Voter, Illegally Targeted by the GOP, Speaks Out (VIDEO)  —  Nineteen year old Francisco Martinez appeared at a press conference this morning convened by ACORN to announce a new commercial and a series of law suits filed on behalf of voters illegally targeted to have their votes suppressed by right wing xenophobes.
Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
After Calling Social Security An ‘Absolute Disgrace,’ McCain Says Safety Nets Are ‘What America Is All About’  —  In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity last night, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed it was a “far-left liberal view that you need to take money from one group of Americans and give it to another.”
Discussion: Eschaton
Marc Ambinder:
The Obama Campaign Plays The Palin Card...  After two long months of itchy trigger fingers.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
 
 
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Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:
George Bush will soon be free to do what he wants
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Washington Post:
McCain and Palin Say Stevens Should Resign
Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:
Mass. Pol Accused of Stuffing Bra With Bribes
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Support Sought In Afghan Mission
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Ryan H. Sager / Reason:
The Rove Realignment  —  Have libertarians been driven out of the GOP?
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Did people who knew about secret, CIA-led coups use that information …
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's New Deal No Better Than Old One
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Sara Murray / Wall Street Journal:
New Voters Back Obama; Turnout Unsure
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JammieWearingFool:
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
McCain's Troubles Afflicting Other Races
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
‘A New Kind of Politics’? Good Luck With That.
Discussion: Townhall.com and Commentary
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