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2:45 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.
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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.
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Obama Raised $66 Million in August
Discussion: The Raw Story
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:
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Ginger Adams Otis / New York Post:
MAC HATER HAS A LOUSY ‘IMAGE’  —  MAG FOTOG IN DIRTY TRICK TO TURN POL ‘EVIL’  —  Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed “hard-core Dem,” deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Lib Photographer Admits Making McCain Look Sinister for Mag Cover
Discussion: PDNPulse and Wake up America
John Griffin / Political Punch:
Why Doesn't McCain Use a Computer?  —  Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. introduced a new TV ad his week that paints Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as out of touch for being, when it comes to technology, shall we say a touch “old-school.”  —  “1982, John McCain goes to Washington,” the narrator says.
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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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: Washington Monthly and Don Surber
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Where is the debate over the Bush Doctrine?  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)  —  Before it became clear that Sarah Palin had never heard of it, nobody — including the presidential candidates themselves — ever had difficulty answering questions about what they believed about the Bush Doctrine …
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Cliff May / The Corner:
The Bush Doctrine and the Palin Performance
New York Times:
Lehman's Fate Is in Doubt as Barclays Pulls Out of Talks  —  Unable to find a savior, the troubled investment bank Lehman Brothers appeared headed toward bankruptcy on Sunday, in what would be one of the biggest failures in Wall Street history.  —  The fate of Lehman hung in the balance …
Discussion: The Swamp and the talking dog
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?
 
 
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Offshore Drilling Is Coming to a Vote
Joan Lowy / Associated Press:
Forum sells ‘Obama Waffles’ with racial stereotype
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Live From New York, It's Sarah (Tiny Fey) Palin!
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
PALIN'S ‘BRIDGE TO NOWHERE’ LINE RETURNS
Editor and Publisher:
Newspapers Deliver Millions of ‘Terror’ DVDs to Subscribers — In ‘Swing States’
Discussion: The Raw Story
Steve Chapman / Chicago Tribune:
To McCain, the truth is expendable
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Obama opens double-digit lead
William Yardley / New York Times:
Active Role for Palin's Husband in Alaska Government
Discussion: TIME.com
 Earlier Items: 
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bering Straight Talk
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
Solomon Moore / New York Times:
States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts
Cernig / Crooks and Liars:
Palin's ‘Nowhere Project’ still using federal funds
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Larisa Alexandrovna / At-Largely:
White Power: The Republican Base
Discussion: TheZoo and The Raw Story
Cass Sunstein / Boston Globe:
The fate of Roe v. Wade and choice
Washington Post:
Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama