Obama may lead Democratic landslide  —  McPain.  —  Barack Obama is beating John McCain in Iowa by a whopping 17 percentage points, according to the Iowa Poll published in today's Register.  —  Obama gets 54 percent of the vote, while McCain captures 37 percent among likely voters, according to the survey.

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.

EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO— Obama Promises San Francisco Audience He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry!!  —  OBAMA TOLD A SAN FRANCISCO AUDIENCE THAT HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY!!!  —  ATTN: Coal states Virginia , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Indiana, guess what Obama told San Francisco about you?

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

In the '08 Horse Race, the Cart Pulls Ahead  —  “IT'S OVER,” wrote Charles M. Blow on the Op-Ed page of The Times 15 days ago.  “I've studied the polls and the electoral map for months, and I no longer believe that John McCain can win.”  Blow allowed as how a serious mistake by Barack Obama …

Obama keeps his lead in Ohio  —  After an unprecedented campaign that seemed to break a record for breaking records, Barack Obama stands on the threshold of history — if his poll numbers hold up.  —  The final Dispatch Poll shows the Illinois Democrat with a 6-point lead in Ohio …

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.

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.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner  —  AND so: just how far have we come?  —  As a rough gauge last week, I watched a movie I hadn't seen since it came out when I was a teenager in 1967.  Back then “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner” was Hollywood's idea of a stirring call for racial justice.

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.

Obama Turns Endorsement Into Attack  —  Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Pueblo, Colorado.  —  A high-level endorsement usually gives a presidential candidate a boost...unless the endorsement comes from Dick Cheney.  —  Barack Obama seized on the unpopular sitting vice president's backing …