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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 …
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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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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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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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 11/1 — This is beginning to look like a five-state election. Those states are Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada. Essentially all relevant electoral scenarios involve some combination of these five states. — I should caution that by far the most likely scenario …
Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:
Cases Against Detainees Have Thinned — Algerians' Habeas Corpus Hearings Will Begin With Fewer and Lesser Charges — The six Algerians were scooped up in Bosnia and shuttled to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in early 2002. Days later, President Bush proclaimed in his State …
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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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Palin Contradicts The McCain Campaign Again: Promises McCain Will Balance Budget In First Term — At a rally in York, Pennsylvania yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to declare that she and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would “balance the federal budget by the end of our first term.”
The Buzz:
Listen to Chris Rock at Tampa Obama rally — TAMPA — (Listen here ) Comedian Chris Rock took the stage this afternoon and told a crowd of more than 1,000 at a College Hill little league field to go vote for Sen. Barack Obama. Voters should choose a candidate they can relate to, who can see they're poor and understand, he said.
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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
The Obama tax hike: You may be pre-approved! — The Obama middle-class limbo dance descends further. First, it was $250,000. Then $200,000. Just a couple of days ago, Joe Biden reduced it to $150,000. And now... For the second time in a week, a prominent Democrat …