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2:20 PM ET, September 24, 2008

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Michael Goldfarb / JohnMcCain.com:
A Partisan Paper of Record  —  Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization.  Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain camp attacks Times, doesn't deny report  —  The Mccain camp has a 698-word statement out in response to today's story that Rick Davis's firm, Davis Manafort, was paid a consulting fee of $15,000 a month starting in 2005, and ending last month.  —  The statement from McCain aide Michael Goldfarb begins:
Lynn Sweet:
John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis skips lunch with reporters
Discussion: TPM Election Central and Salon
Washington Post:
Economic Fears Give Obama Clear Lead Over McCain in Poll  —  Turmoil in the financial industry and growing pessimism about the economy have altered the shape of the presidential race, giving Democratic nominee Barack Obama the first clear lead of the general-election campaign over Republican John McCain …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
McCain Campaign Disputes Post Poll  —  By Charles Dharapak — Associated Press  —  On the heels of a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that showed Barack Obama leading John McCain 52 percent to 43 percent nationally, the Arizona senator's campaign convened a conference call today insisting that the survey was an “outlier”.
William H. Gross / Washington Post:
How Main Street Will Profit  —  Capitalism is a delicate balance between production and finance.  Today, our seemingly guaranteed living standard is threatened, much like it has been in previous recessions or, some would say, the Depression.  Finance has run amok because of oversecuritization …
Marc Ambinder:
ABC/Post Poll Suggests Gains For Obama
Discussion: Townhall.com
University of Chicago GSB Faculty Redirect Page:
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate:  —  As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Paulson to deal with the financial crisis.  We are well aware of the difficulty …
Discussion: Portfolio and Freakonomics
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Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
Pew Research: Missing Cell-Phone Onlys Matter  —  Few in the field of survey research have examined the problem of cell phones and surveys as closely over the last four years as Scott Keeter and his colleagues at the Pew Research Center.  They conducted one of the first large-scale political surveys …
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Scott Keeter / PewResearch.org:
Cell Phones and the 2008 Vote: An Update  —  Current polling in the 2008 presidential election shows a very tight race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.  In part because of the strong support Obama is attracting among younger voters, and as the number of Americans …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Intrade Betting is Suspicious  —  There's something funny going on over at Intrade with respect to the pricing of the Obama and McCain contracts.  —  Right now, Obama is trading at 52.3 points.  That is, Intrade implies that he has a 52.3 percent chance to become the next President.
Discussion: The RBC and Concurring Opinions
Marisa Katz / Washington Post:
Palin on Thin Ice  —  With today's kerfuffle over the media being kept away from Sarah Palin's meetings with foreign leaders — like there was a risk she'd answer their shouted questions?  — I've been mulling over Colby's post about the Hannity-Palin “100 percent pure infomercial” interview.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Even FOX Rebels Against Palin Media Shutout
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Pinpoint Attacks Focus on Obama  —  STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Hundreds of times in the past three weeks, cable television viewers here have been the exclusive audience for two of the roughest advertisements of the political season.  —  One links Senator Barack Obama to the former mayor of Detroit …
IPS Inter Press Service:
POLITICS: Neo-cons, Ex-Israeli Diplomats Push Islamophobic Video  —  A group of hard-line U.S. neo-conservatives and former Israeli diplomats, among others, are behind the mass distribution, ahead of the November U.S. presidential election, of a controversial DVD that critics have denounced as Islamophobic.
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Thomas Frank / Wall Street Journal:
It's Judgment Day for McCain  —  Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to “find out what went wrong” on Wall Street.  It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s.
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
NBC/WSJ POLL: DOUBTS ABOUT PALIN  —  From NBC's Mark Murray  —  The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll will be released at 6:30 pm ET, but here's an early look at one set of numbers:  —  Forty-nine percent say that Palin is unqualified to be president if the need arises, compared with 40 percent who say she's qualified.
New York Times:
Anxious Depositors Withdraw Cash From Asian Bank  —  HONG KONG — Throngs of depositors lined up outside the headquarters and branches of the Bank of East Asia here on Wednesday to withdraw their money, underlining widespread anxiety in Asia that Wall Street's recent difficulties might spread across the Pacific.
Discussion: Eunomia
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Bill Clinton cites Jewish holidays to explain delay in campaigning  —  File this one under Ya Can't Make It Up.  —  Call me crazy, but there may some Christian areas of the country that he could stump in for Obama before, after or doing the high holidays.  —  From WJC's interview with Larry King tonight:
Discussion: Townhall.com and Dean's World
Michael Mechanic / MoJoBlog:
On Iraq's Northern Front, Echoes of Georgia?  —  The following post is from occasional contributor Douglas Macgregor, an independent military strategist, retired Army colonel, and author of Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century.
WNBC:
PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk  —  VERMONT — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk …
Amanda Scott / Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
Senator Biden: National Security Speech  —  Senator Biden just finished a major foreign policy speech at the Rotunda of the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.  He addressed the issues of Iraq and Afganistan and how Barack will focus on rebuilding our alliances, partnerships and international institutions.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Lee Speigel / Political Punch:
Oh, That Joe!  (No. 17 in a Series) — First Thing We Do, Let's Retain All the Lawyers  —  “I think we're going to be up very late counting votes,” Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., told a kettle of lawyers Tuesday night at a fundraiser for the Democratic Victory Fund hosted by the American Association …
CNN:
Trooper probe now ‘confidential,’ Palin aides say  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — Republican campaign officials indicated they are done answering questions about an investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner Tuesday, citing a request by a state investigator.
CNN:
Biden, Obama helped keep ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ alive  —  CNN Special Investigations Unit  —  DEWEY BEACH, Delaware (CNN) — Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous …
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
North Korea Bars Inspectors From Nuclear Plant  —  PARIS — North Korea has barred international inspectors from a nuclear reprocessing plant that produces weapons-grade plutonium and intends to restart activity there in a week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday.
Paul Krugman:
The trust problem  —  Andrew Leonard has an interesting theory about what Paulson and Bernanke may be thinking — namely, that mortgage-related securities are wildly underpriced, and that the Treasury can create a market that will lead to major upward revaluations, and we'll all live happily thereafter.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Corrente
Alaska Politics / Alaska_Politics's blog:
Ivan Moore: Palin remains popular but not like before  —  From David Hulen in Anchorage -  —  Anchorage pollster/consultant Ivan Moore has a new poll out from 500 likely Alaska voters.  While Gov. Palin's popularity remains very high - 68 percent overall give her a positive rating …
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Where is the Credit Crunch?  —  Back in February I pointed out that despite all the talk of a credit crunch commercial and industrial loans were at an all-time high and increasing.  At the time, Paul Krugman and others responded that this was just temporary as firms drew on previously existing lines of credit.
 
 
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid: McCain to support bailout
Marc Ambinder:
Bailout Questions  —  So where did the $700 billion number come from?
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
Democrats concede, will end offshore drilling ban
Discussion: The Huffington Post
NPR:
Shifting Battleground  —  Since the polling team last surveyed …
Discussion: The Swamp
Michael J. Totten:
The Scorching of Georgia
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
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