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1:30 PM ET, August 20, 2008

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John Whitesides / Reuters:
Poll shows McCain in 5-point lead over Obama  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: McCain Makes a Move, Takes 5-Point Lead Over Obama  —  Obama loses ground among Dems, women, Catholics & even younger voters  —  UTICA, New York - As Russian tanks rolled into the Republic of Georgia and the presidential candidates met over the weekend in the first joint issues forum …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Obama's Ads in Key States Go on Attack  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama has started a sustained and hard-hitting advertising campaign against Senator John McCain in states that will be vital this fall, painting Mr. McCain in a series of commercials as disconnected from the economic struggles of the middle class.
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Good News For Obama  —  Let me preface my remarks by saying that I am a firm believer that the national polling really does not matter until after the second convention.  When both candidates have chosen their VP and held their conventions, then I think we will really get a good idea of how the candidates are stacking up.
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
McCain winning in new poll, follows trend
Nick Pisa / Telegraph:
Barack Obama's ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya  —  Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.  —  The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
What Did We Expect?  —  If the conflict in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin.  The silver medal for bone-headed recklessness would go to Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the bronze medal …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Risk of the Zinger
Discussion: The RBC
Mikhail Gorbachev / New York Times:
Russia Never Wanted a War
Discussion: Salon, The Moderate Voice and Truthdig
Sergey Lavrov / Wall Street Journal:
America Must Choose Between Georgia and Russia
Discussion: QandO and Right Wing News
National Enquirer:
JOHN EDWARDS BLOCKBUSTER NEW EXPOSE!  —  The NATIONAL ENQUIRER's exclusive ongoing investigation uncovers shocking new revelations about The John Edwards Scandal!  —  The day prior to Edwards bombshell admission to an affair on ABC's Nightline, Rielle Hunter and her 6 month old daughter …
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Sen. Joe Lieberman to speak at GOP convention  —  WASHINGTON - Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention, an official said.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Giuliani to give keynote at GOP convention  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention next month.  —  First lady Laura Bush, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain's former Republican rivals will speak as well.
Discussion: Firedoglake
Borys Krawczeniuk / The Times-Tribune:
Local Clinton backers, McCain adviser meet  —  A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Two Against The One  —  In the dead of night in a small hideaway office in the deserted Capitol, a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal.  —  They grin at each other as they lift their celebratory shots of brutally cold Stolichnaya.
Michael Moore:
“Caroline: Pull a Cheney!”  An Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy (head of the Obama VP search team) from Michael Moore  —  We've never met, so I hope you don't find this letter too presumptuous or inappropriate.  As its contents involve the public's business, I am sending this to you via the public on the Internet.
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
McCain scores a bump from Saddleback  —  He clashed with their leaders in his 2000 campaign.  He struggled to gain their votes during the 2008 primaries.  And he still doesn't spend much time talking about the issues they consider most important.  —  But after Saturday night's televised forum …
Discussion: New York Times, QandO and God-o-Meter
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Brooks: McCain is an Unprincipled Sellout  —  I'm not sure I've ever really understood the progressive blogosphere convention that everything David Brooks writes must be read in the most ungenerous way possible.  Certainly, though, if you apply that method to Brooks' column from yesterday …
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Obama's Wide Web  —  From YouTube to Text Messaging, Candidate's Team Connects to Voters  —  Amid the cramped, crowded cubicles inside Sen. Barack Obama's campaign headquarters here, sandals are as ubiquitous as iPods.  Two young guys in shorts and T-shirts throw a football around.
Discussion: MyDD and Jack & Jill Politics
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Conservative Group Finds Networks Positive on Obama  —  It's no secret that Barack Obama has gotten awfully good coverage from the media in this campaign, and plenty of it.  —  Now the conservative Media Research Center says the imbalance is far greater than anyone imagined.
 
 
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Geraghty: Just Words That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget
Discussion: The Corner, Betsy's Page and QandO
Amanda / Think Progress:
Right-Wing Vets For Freedom Attacks Hagel's Military Service …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Pocketbook Issue  —  A Pay Case That Obama Needs to Woo Women
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
BASHING SOROS.  —  Jesse makes fun of it here, but the Right's success …
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
Court Rejects E.P.A. Limits on Emissions Rules
Lucy Cockcroft / Telegraph:
Liars are exposed by blinking
Discussion: Don Surber
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Obama Adviser Offers Some Advice to Damascus
Discussion: Hot Air and www.redstate.com
Robert Arena / AMERICAblog News:
Why people should be worried about the polls
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
NBC News Correspondent Named Anchor of New Public Television Newscast
Discussion: TVNewser
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Obama's Invesco sell-out an “underground fundraiser”
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Denver's homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats
ABCNEWS:
Head-Faker-in-Chief?
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Citizens' U.S. Border Crossings Tracked
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Candidates' Abortion Views Not So Simple
Tim Montgomerie / America in the World's …:
A World Without The American Soldier
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