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1:10 PM ET, September 14, 2008

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama raises $66 million in August  —  Sen. Barack Obama raised $66 million in the month of August, making it his best month ever and the best in American political history, an aide said Sunday morning.  —  Obama is releasing that number after suggestions that his fundraising was failing to meet expectations.
Discussion: The Swamp, The Corner and Hot Air
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Bob Von Sternberg / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Poll: Obama, McCain are dead even in state  —  With 51 days before Election Day, Barack Obama and John McCain are tied with 45 percent support, raising the stakes in the campaign.  —  Minnesota has become a battleground in a presidential campaign that has dramatically tightened nationwide.
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin Cut Own Duties, Left Trail of Bad Blood  —  WASILLA, Alaska — On Sept. 24, 2001, Mayor Sarah Palin and the City Council held their first meeting after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  The council condemned the attacks and approved a $5,000 gift to a disaster relief fund.
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Out-Takes: Behind The Atlantic's McCain Cover  —  “Some of my artwork has been pretty anti-Bush, so maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me.”  - Jill Greenberg  —  The Atlantic Monthly's current cover by Beverly Hills photographer Jill Greenberg looks like this:
Discussion: Macsmind, Doug Ross and Sister Toldjah
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Lib Photographer Admits Making McCain Look Sinister for Mag Cover  —  Media watchers are well-aware that it's not only words that can be used to spread propaganda, but oftentimes it's the pictures involved in the articles.  —  For months, people around the country have been noticing …
Discussion: PDNPulse and Wake up America
Akmuckraker / Mudflats:
‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE!  —  I attended the Welcome Home rally for Sarah Palin this morning.  Hooo.  It was an experience.  About a thousand (maybe) hard-core Palin supporters showed up to hear her speak at the new Dena'ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage.
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink  —  This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press.  Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout.  —  A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Making America Stupid  —  Imagine for a minute that attending the Republican convention in St. Paul, sitting in a skybox overlooking the convention floor, were observers from Russia, Iran and Venezuela.  And imagine for a minute what these observers would have been doing when Rudy Giuliani led …
Discussion: Don Surber and Washington Monthly
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket  —  WITH all due deference to lipstick, let's advance the story.  A week ago the question was: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?  The question today: What kind of president would Sarah Palin be?
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Obama ad takes heat for McCain cyber shot  —  Insensitivity to war injuries cited  —  WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama's campaign came under fire from conservative bloggers yesterday for a new political ad criticizing his 72-year-old opponent, John McCain, for not using computers.
Discussion: Commentary
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bering Straight Talk  —  I've been in Alaska only a week, but I'm already feeling ever so much smarter about Russia.  —  I can't quite see it from my hotel window, but, hey, I know it's out there somewhere, beyond all the stuffed bears and cruise ships and glaciers and oil derricks.
Matt / Think Progress:
Rove: 'You can't trust the fact-check organizations.'  —  This week, non-partisan fact-checking organizations like PolitiFact and FactCheck.org  —  have called Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) out for lies in his attack ads against Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).  But on Fox News Sunday today …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Washington Post:
Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama  —  A new group financed by a Texas billionaire and organized by some of the same political operatives and donors behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry in 2004 plans to begin running television ads …
Discussion: Bang the Drum and TIME.com
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Is This It?  Really?  —  The New York Times does the all-so predictable Sarah Palin bill of indictment for its Sunday front page.  It certainly sounds compelling in the paragraph called the “nut graf”: … But what is so remarkable is how little there is in the page after page of minutiae thrown against the wall by the Times.
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Christopher Sherman / Associated Press:
It's race against time to save Ike stalwarts  —  GALVESTON, Texas - Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to save those who spent a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines.
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Gateway Pundit:
Palimania Spreads— 10,000 Show Up For 3,500 Seats in Carson City  —  Governor Sarah Palin bid farewell to Alaska today...  Then it was off to Nevada for one of her first solo campaign appearances.  —  The People of Nevada Were Psyched to see Sarah—  A swarm of Palin fans hoping …
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Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
Palin sticks to the familiar in first solo outing
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 
 
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Mona Charen / The Corner:
For C-SPAN viewers  —  I appeared on Washington Journal …
Discussion: Campaign Silo
Melinda Newman / PopEater:
Pink: Sarah Palin ‘Hates Women’
Media Matters for America:
Over five-day period, Fox News provided far more campaign stump …
Discussion: News Hounds and Eschaton
Ben Adler / The Politico:
Ohio secretary of state prevents vote caging
Discussion: TheZoo
Donald Luskin / Washington Post:
Quit Doling Out That Bad-Economy Line
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Solomon Moore / New York Times:
States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts
Discussion: TalkLeft
Cernig / Crooks and Liars:
Palin's ‘Nowhere Project’ still using federal funds
Larisa Alexandrovna / At-Largely:
White Power: The Republican Base
Discussion: TheZoo and The Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Cass Sunstein / Boston Globe:
The fate of Roe v. Wade and choice
Cliff May / The Corner:
The Bush Doctrine and the Palin Performance
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Strip of Iraq ‘on the Verge of Exploding’
Agence France Presse:
Obama tones it down as Hurricane Ike looms
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Brian C. Mooney / Boston Globe:
Fueled by oil taxes, Alaska spending soared under Palin
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Wall St. Goliath Teeters Amid Fear of Wider Crisis
Discussion: The Agonist
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Another Twist in Case of Dead Anthrax Suspect
Jules Crittenden:
I Knew When I Married Her ...  ... she was hot and smart.