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10:40 AM ET, September 14, 2008

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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.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama raises $66 million in August  —  Senator 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 and Hot Air
CNN:
Obama aide: McCain camp ‘sleaziest’ in modern history
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.
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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New York Times:
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes  —  WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.  —  So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate …
Tom Smith / The Right Coast:
First report from Alaska back to the NY Times Tom Smith  —  First report from Alaska back to the NY Times  —  You have to check this out.  It looks like the reporters the NY Times sent up to Alaska to dig up what they could on Palin have sent back their first missive.  I would say the great Klondike strike, it ain't.
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?
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 …
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.
Discussion: RADAMISTO
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 …
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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.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin
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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 and TheZoo
Cernig / Crooks and Liars:
McCain's Economist: We Need Tax Increases  —  Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and current chief McCain economic advisor tells Fortune columnist Matt Miller in a forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, that the next President is simply going to have to raise taxes.
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Scott Lanman / Bloomberg:
Greenspan Says McCain Tax Plan Needs Corresponding Budget Cuts
Discussion: The Swamp
Cliff May / The Corner:
The Bush Doctrine and the Palin Performance  —  I think Charles Krauthammer makes a persuasive case that Charlie Gibson's understanding of the Bush Doctrine is wafer thin.  I also think Rich is correct to say that Palin's answer demonstrates that she has a lot of material to master over the weeks ahead …
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Barack Obama under fire for ignoring advice on how to beat John McCain  —  Barack Obama and his senior advisers are under fire for ignoring the advice of Democratic senators and governors who are concerned that they do not know how to beat John McCain.  —  The Democratic presidential candidate's slump …
 
 
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Strip of Iraq ‘on the Verge of Exploding’
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Agence France Presse:
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Brian C. Mooney / Boston Globe:
Fueled by oil taxes, Alaska spending soared under Palin
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Wall St. Goliath Teeters Amid Fear of Wider Crisis
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Battlegrounds: Florida, Pennsylvania breaking for McCain?
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Biden prepares for more prominent role in campaign
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Are YOU ready to be President?  —  If Charlie Gibson asked …
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