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4:25 PM ET, September 24, 2008

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Fox News:
McCain Suspends Campaign to Help With Bailout  —  John McCain announced that he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with bailout negotiations.  He urged his opponent Barack Obama to do the same.  —  The Arizona senator also asked …
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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
McCain: Scrap Friday Debate for Bailout; Obama Camp: ‘The Debate is On’  —  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos and Rick Klein report: Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said he would “suspend” his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill, a dramatic move designed to seize a powerful issue.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain's gambit  —  McCain suspends his campaign, and asks to postpone Friday's debate, to address the financial crisis.  —  Both candidates have been marginal players; McCain, though, seems to have the potential to make himself a major one, and his move is a mark, most of all, that he doesn't like the way this campaign is going.
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
McCain Asks To Postpone Friday Debate Due To Economic Crisis  —  NEW YORK — Republican John McCain said Wednesday he wants to delay Friday's debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama and temporarily put aside their partisan campaign to resolve the nation's financial crisis.
Discussion: I Am TRex
Drudge Report:
MCCAIN SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN TO FOCUS ON ECONOMY; WANTS DEBATE DELAY  —  MCCAIN: America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system.  We must pass legislation to address this crisis.  If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy.
Discussion: Townhall.com, Slog and Lonewacko
Washington Post:
McCain Calls for Debate Delay to Focus on Financial Crisis  —  NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee John McCain this afternoon said he would temporarily suspend his presidential campaign tomorrow to return to Washington and help reach agreement on a plan to solve the financial crisis on Wall Street …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain wants to delay Friday debate, focus on economic crisis  —  John McCain is calling for the first presidential debate, scheduled for Friday in Mississippi, to be delayed and urging Barack Obama to join him in Washington for a high-level meeting of congressional leaders to address the financial crisis.
CNN:
McCain to ‘suspend campaign,’ calls for first debate to be delayed  —  (CNN) — John McCain announced Wednesday he is suspending his campaign on Thursday morning and returning to Washington to work on the financial crisis.  He also called on the Commission on Presidential Debates to postpone …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:   McCain: Postpone debate for crisis
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Obama likely to keep debate as McCain seeks delay
Michelle Malkin:
Breaking: McCain suspends campaign over bailout, wants debate …
Discussion: The Other McCain
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Palin gets question, looks to McCain, demurs  —  This is what happens when campaigns let reporters into photo ops.  They get all uppity and ask questions.  —  From the pool report account of what happened after McCain and Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ASK A SILLY QUESTION.... John McCain and Sarah Palin met …
Discussion: Eunomia
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Sarah Palin: Depression fears
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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Washington Post:
Economic Fears Give Obama Clear Lead Over McCain in Poll
Gallup:   Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains 3-Point Edge
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 …
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Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
Pew Research: Missing Cell-Phone Onlys Matter
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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: Freakonomics and Portfolio
Arnold Kling / EconLog:
The Ignorance Behind the Paulson Plan  —  From The PBS News Hour on September 23: … Ludwig is one of the authors, along with Paul Volcker, of the op-ed that put the bailout proposal on the table in the first place.  —  I am sure that Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Eugene Ludwig …
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CNN:
McCain suspends campaign for ‘historic’ crisis
Discussion: The New Republic
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Thinking Outside Paulson's Box
Discussion: The New Republic and Econbrowser
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:
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Bill Clinton: Will respect Jewish holidays, then 'hustle up …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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
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Paul Krugman:   A $700 billion slap in the face
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
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 …
 
 
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Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
NBC/WSJ POLL: DOUBTS ABOUT PALIN
CNN:
Biden, Obama helped keep ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ alive
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