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12:50 PM ET, October 5, 2008

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama clinches on Rove map  —  With 30 days until Nov. 4, Karl Rove projects that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) would get at least 273 electoral votes - three more than are needed to win - if the presidential election were held today.  —  But Rove warns that this race is “susceptible to rapid changes …
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Bob Von Sternberg / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Poll: Obama leaps ahead of McCain  —  The Democrat's lead in the state is tied to the economy, the debate and new party strength.  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opened up a commanding lead in Minnesota over Republican John McCain, according to a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll.
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Kevin Duchschere / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Franken bypasses Coleman as voters react to attack ads
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Matthew Archbold / Creative Minority Report:
Hilarious Example of Media Bias  —  You've got to watch this video.  CNN's Soledad O' Brien ran a focus group of self declared Republicans, Democrats and undecideds during the Palin/Biden debate.  —  Soledad asked them immediately after the debate, “How many thought Joe Biden won the debate tonight?”
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain  —  SARAH PALIN'S post-Couric/Fey comeback at last week's vice presidential debate was a turning point in the campaign.  But if she “won,” as her indulgent partisans and press claque would have it, the loser was not Joe Biden.  It was her running mate.
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Frank talk of Obama and race in Virginia  —  As Obama supporters push to win the dead-even battleground state, they are talking directly about race, betting that the best way to put neighbors at ease is to open up.  —  WHITEWOOD, VA. — The isolated towns of Virginia's Appalachian coal region …
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RACE BAITING BY MCCAIN CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL IN VIRGINIA  —  The LA Times scoops the Virginia media with this column from the McCain campaign's official Buchanan County representative.  —  You need to read this column to believe it.  In “humor” he accuses Obama of wanting to paint the White House black …
CNN:
Fact Check: Is Obama ‘palling around with terrorists’?  —  Get the facts!  —  The Facts: In making the charge at a fund-raising event in Englewood, Colorado, and a rally in Carson, California, Palin was referring at least in part to William Ayers, a 1960s radical.
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Matt / Think Progress:
Ifill: Palin ‘blew me off’ during the debate.  —  During the vice presidential debate on Thursday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced that she “may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear.”  In fact, “On at least 10 occasions, Palin gave answers that were nonspecific …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: Obama to preempt McCain assault  —  Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.  —  Obama officials call it political jujitsu - turning the attacks back on the attacker.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Palin, on Offensive, Attacks Obama's Ties to '60s Radical  —  Gov. Sarah Palin seized on a report about Barack Obama's relationship with a former 1960s radical to accuse him of “palling around with terrorists.”
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Obama's ‘Good Will’ Hunting  —  From the magazine issue dated Oct 13, 2008  —  The Obama campaign has shattered all fund-raising records, raking in $458 million so far, with about half the bounty coming from donors who contribute $200 or less.  Aides say that's an illustration of a truly democratic campaign.
Glenn Greenwaldd / Salon:
Porn producer invokes the Bush/Yoo defense — unsuccessfully  —  On Friday in Tampa, Florida, Paul F. Little was sentenced by a federal judge to 3 years and 10 months in a federal prison after being convicted of the grave and terrible crime of distributing pornography “over the Internet and through the mail” …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Sarah's Pompom Palaver  —  I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous.  —  There's W.'s gummy grammar, of course, like the classic, “Is our children learning?”  And covering the first Bush White …
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