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Drudge Report:
PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE — NY POST, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, WASHINGTON TIMES TOLD TO GET OUT... ALL 3 ENDORSED MCCAIN — The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states …
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Washington Times:
Washington Times kicked off Obama plane for finale — The Washington Times, which has covered the Barack Obama campaign from the start, was kicked off the Democrat's campaign plane for the final 72 hours of the race. — The Obama campaign informed the newspaper Thursday evening of its decision …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Off the plane — Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Drudge's report that two right-leaning papers, the Washington Times and the New York Post, have lost their seats on the Obama plane, along with the Dallas Morning News. — “We're trying to reach as many swing voters that we can and unfortunately …
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Fox News:
Three Reporters From McCain-Endorsing Newspapers Removed From Obama's Plane — Reporters from three newspapers that endorsed John McCain have been told that they can't travel aboard Barack Obama's plane in the final days leading before Election Day. — FOXNews.com — Friday, 2008-31-305
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Palin Fears Media Threaten Her First Amendment Rights — ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by …
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CNN:
Former Reagan adviser endorses Obama — (CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday. — Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official - Colin Powell - in his decision.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
When Consumers Capitulate — The long-feared capitulation of American consumers has arrived. According to Thursday's G.D.P. report, real consumer spending fell at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the third quarter; real spending on durable goods (stuff like cars and TVs) fell at an annual rate of 14 percent.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The 99 Percent Solution — Barack Obama says that frequently differences in judicial philosophy aren't going to matter because in “ninety-nine percent of cases [because] the Constitution is actually going to be clear. Ninety-nine percent of the cases, a statute or congressional intent is going to be clear.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama's Lead Widens Some on All Bases — Advances to 8-point lead among “traditional likely voters” — PRINCETON, NJ — The political landscape could be improving for Barack Obama in the waning days of the campaign. Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 28-30 shows …
Kos / Daily Kos:
AZ-Pres: Neck and neck, and check out 2010 — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 10/28-30. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines) … I can't believe we may actually win Arizona. And I have a bonus treat for you guys: … Janet Napolitano is Arizona's governor, currently serving her second term.
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Boehner bashes Justice Dept. for not doing enough on voter fraud — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is slamming the Justice Department for not doing enough in response to GOP complaints of potential voter fraud. — In a letter today to Attorney General Michael Mukasey …
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Washington Post:
An ‘Idiot Wind’ — John McCain's latest attempt to link Barack Obama to extremism — WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi.
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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Senate race in final leg — THE PUSH: Stevens insists he's not guilty while Begich envisions a different future. — scockerham@adn.com — With just four days before the election and Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens insisting he's not a felon, the U.S. Senate race is white hot.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Who's Got The Momentum? — In the last 96 hours of any election, both parties seek to cast themselves and their candidate as the ones closing strong with a wind at their back. — This presidential election is no different, as already today the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain have each held a …
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Obama's New Attack on Those Who Don't Want Higher Taxes: ‘Selfishness’ — On the stump this week, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has pushed back against Sen. John McCain's description of his tax policies. — “The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Runaway Train — The race, the case, a hope for grace. — The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes: — He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years …
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The Huffington Post:
Eagleburger Blisters Palin: “Of Course” She's Not Ready — A former Republican Secretary of State and one of John McCain's most prominent supporters offered a stunningly frank and remarkably bleak assessment of Sarah Palin's capacity to handle the presidency should such a scenario arise.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Richardson strays — Speaking with great confidence, Bill Richardson defines “middle class” in Obama's plan as people making $120,000 and under. — He's right, of course, that those people would get a tax cut — but Obama holds harmless families whose income is up to $250,000.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain: ‘Or’ — McCain on Palin. — post comment | … Inspirational? To whom? — what a sad pathetic remorseful and embarrassing endorsement. He doesn't even believe that and I'm sure if he had the chance to do it over again he would stay far away from Palin as possible. — So says Rudy.
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Campaign Silo
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Mortgage Plan May Irk Those It Doesn't Help — As the Treasury Department prepares a $40 billion program to help delinquent homeowners avoid foreclosure, it confronts a difficult challenge: not making the plan too tempting to people like Todd Lawrence. — An airline pilot who lives outside Norwich …
Ethan Porter / The New Republic:
Rashid Who? — Why the Jews finally came home to Obama — By late last spring, concerns about Jews deserting the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, had reached a fever pitch. Writing in his popular blog for Politico, Ben Smith declared that Obama had a “Jewish problem.”
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
As Mark Steyn says: McCain — faute de mieux — Yes, sports fans, I do know all about how the International Republican Institute, while McCain was chairing it (which he apparently still does), gave goo-gobs of money to a Rashid Khalidi founded Center for Palestine Research and Studies …
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