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1:30 PM ET, September 17, 2008

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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition  —  A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace …
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
McCain has 2 faces: Washington in- and outsider  —  VIENNA, Ohio (AP) — John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song.  —  Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the capital city.  Draw out and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways.
Discussion: The Raw Story and Brian Beutler
Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:
McCain invokes FDR to boost autoworkers
Marc Ambinder:
What The Heck Is AIG, Part II?
MoJoBlog:
McCain Attacks Wall Street Greed …
Discussion: The Raw Story and Latest Politics
New York Times:
Mr. McCain and the Economy  —  John McCain spent Monday claiming …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Mark Preston / CNN:
Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Rothschilds Against Elitism  —  Irony truly is dead as Lynn Forester de Rothschild endorses John McCain on anti-elitism grounds: … On an unrelated note, the stakes have rarely been higher in an election for extremely rich people than they are in this one.
Associated Press:   Top Clinton fundraiser backing McCain, not Obama
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Clinton blindsided by scheduled event with Palin  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled an appearance at a New York rally next week after organizers blindsided her by inviting Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, aides to the senator said Tuesday.
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Fox News:
Clinton Cancels Rally Appearance After Learning Palin Invited  —  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton has pulled out of an appearance at a New York rally next week to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because she doesn't want to be seen alongside Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a …
Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
As Palin Joins Planned Protest Against Iran, Clinton Cancels
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Romney contradicts Fiorina  —  (CNN) - Mitt Romney and Carly Fiorina, two high-profile supporters of Sen. John McCain, may just have to agree to disagree.  —  On Tuesday, Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said that neither McCain nor his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is capable …
Discussion: Guardian and Townhall.com
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
McCain campaign stumbles through day
Discussion: Firedoglake and DownWithTyranny!
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain BlackBerry Easily Connects With Gore Internet
Faiz / Think Progress:
McCain reportedly ‘furious’ …
Amir Taheri / New York Post:
OBAMA OBJECTS  —  BUT THE EVIDENCE SAYS I'M RIGHT  —  IN Monday's Post, I discussed how Barack Obama, during his July trip, had asked Iraqi leaders not to finalize an agreement vital to the future of US forces in Iraq - and how the effect of such a delay would be to postpone the departure …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA GAMBLES ON LENGTHY ECONOMIC AD.... Audiences have grown accustomed to certain kinds of political advertising.  The new spot from the Obama campaign is a little something different.  —  The spot is two minutes long, making it four times as long as the typical campaign ad.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Can Obama really pull it off?  —  Can Barack Obama actually blow this thing?  Can he actually lose in November?  —  We have a deeply troubled economy, an unpopular war, a very unpopular president and a historic reluctance on the part of the American people to elect the same party to the White House three terms in a row.
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Does Obama Support the AIG Bailout?  —  Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., this morning released a statement about the US government's rescue of AIG.  —  “The fact that we have reached a point where the Federal Reserve felt it had to take this unprecedented step with the American Insurance Group …
David Alexander / Tales from the Trail:
Financial gloom doesn't halt glitzy Obama fundraiser  —  So what does Barack Obama do after a hard day of defending the common man during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?  —  Throw a $28,500-a-head fundraising dinner, of course.  —  Followed by a $2,500 …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
McCain Mocks Obama's Fundraiser with Streisand
Discussion: Balloon Juice and World-O-Crap
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Drudge-ology 101: McCain, Obama and Media Bias  —  Yesterday was a typical recent day on the Drudge Report — the single most influential source for how the presidential campaign is covered in the country.  —  In the banner headline spot for most of the day was a picture …
Anne Sutton / Associated Press:
McCain campaign clamps down on questions in Alaska  —  JUNEAU, Alaska - GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska's governor to John McCain's political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
True Whoppers  —  Economists are not generally known for their lyrical phrasing.  But the other day, one told me something about the election that has stuck with me: He cautioned against succumbing to the “symmetry of sin.”  —  This unexpected snippet of political poetry …
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Two Minute Ad  —  This seems like a big gamble:  —  Will people watch for two minutes?  How much will it cost?  Where will it play?  How long will it play.  —  One thing is for sure, because it deals with substance and not lipstick or other bulls**t, it will not get played for free repeatedly on the cable channels.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll suggests McCain's support softening as race stays tied  —  WASHINGTON — John McCain and Barack Obama remained neck and neck seven weeks before Election Day, but there's been some softening of the support for McCain and his running mate, a new Ipsos/McClatchy poll has found.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Raises $11 Million in Hollywood  —  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Senator Barack Obama stood beneath the stars - surrounded by the ones from Hollywood - and tried to soothe the concerns of worrying Democrats here on Tuesday as he held the biggest fund-raising night of his campaign.
New York Post:
SARAH HAS SECRET STYLE TEAM  —  HOCKEY mom Sarah Palin not only wore lipstick to the Republican National Convention, the vice-presidential candidate wore a shantung silk Valentino jacket worth $2,500.  —  Insiders tell Page Six Palin has a secretive circle of stylists who dress her for events.
 
 
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
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