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Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
McCain on ‘Saturday Night Live’ — Live from New York, it was Senator John McCain, saying that he was thinking of some radically different strategies for the last three days of the presidential race. — “I thought I might try a strategy called the Reverse Maverick,” Mr. McCain told his interviewer.
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Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
McCain pokes fun at his campaign on ‘SNL’ — Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama — NEW YORK - Republican John McCain poked fun at his presidential campaign's financial shortcomings and his reputation as a political maverick in an appearance on NBC's “Saturday Night Live.”
Jennifer Agiesta / Washington Post:
WaPo-ABC Tracking: Nine Divided by 56 is... In a mere 56 hours, voters in Dixville Notch, NH will cast the first Election Day ballots of the 2008 contest, and in that time, John McCain will need to close a big gap among likely voters if he is to defeat Barack Obama.
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CBS News:
Poll: Early Voters Strongly Prefer Obama — CBS News Survey Shows Democratic Ticket With 19 Point Edge Among Early Voters, 13 Point Lead Among Likely Voters Overall — (CBS) With just three days left until Election Day, a new CBS News poll finds that the Democratic presidential ticket …
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
New Iowa Poll: Obama widens lead over McCain
New Iowa Poll: Obama widens lead over McCain
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Republicans try to use Oxford don to smear Barack Obama — The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama's ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to “prove” that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist.
Associated Press:
Guests for the Sunday TV news shows — By The Associated Press - 1 day ago — Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: — ___ — ABC's “This Week” — David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain. — ___
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Zombie / zomblog:
Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper — Zomblog has obtained an extremely rare copy of the first issue of Osawatomie, a newspaper published by the Weather Underground in 1975. Noteworthy passages are reproduced below, along with exact transcriptions.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE TOWN-HALL MYTH.... In an otherwise complimentary column, David Broder notes one of his biggest disappointments about Barack Obama's campaign. … This is, almost word for word, the argument that John McCain has made since August to explain why he felt it necessary to take his sleazy campaign tactics into the gutter.
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Dale Eisman / Virginian-Pilot:
Down to the wire, Va. still too close to call, poll shows — The earliest signs of who will be the next president might spring from Virginia and how undecided white voters such as John Morris and Sidney Blankenbeckler cast their ballots. — “I'm pretty disappointed in Republicans right now …
Washington Post:
Disclosure About Obama's Aunt May Have Violated Privacy Policy — The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether its privacy policy was violated after a news organization reported that an aunt of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is an illegal immigrant from Kenya, officials said yesterday.
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Associated Press:
Pentagon official: Iran will soon be able to attack Europe — The head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said Friday that Iran was not far from attaining the means to use missiles against all of Europe and against the US in five to six years, Israel Radio reported.
Peter J. Parisi / Washington Times:
Unasked questions for Obama — With just two days to go before the presidential election, an election the chattering class has flatly declared to be the most consequential of our lifetimes - or, some would have you believe, ever - Barack Obama is playing a sort-of prevent defense, waiting for the clock to run out.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Palin's Medical Records — Still AWOL. No explanation. Not even a gesture, which suggests to me that some in the McCain camp realize they'd rather release nothing than be implicated in anything that might hurt them after the election. Only ABC News' Kate Snow seems to care.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The single worst expression in American politics — Joe Biden, speaking yesterday at a rally in Ohio (h/t Jonathan Schwarz): … As I wrote a couple of weeks ago (see the last few paragraphs): if I could be granted one small political wish, it would be the permanent elimination of this widespread …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Palin camp responds to spoof: 'C'est la vie' — Sarah Palin's campaign issued an “mildly amused” response to having joined Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy in having been the victim of a prank by a pair of French-Canadian comedians who impersonated Sarkozy on a call with the Alaska governor.
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