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6:10 PM ET, October 9, 2008

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Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
BIDEN: SAY IT TO HIS FACE  —  From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli  —  ST. JOSEPH, MO - Joe Biden echoed the campaign's response to continued Republican efforts to highlight Obama's past associations, adding a personal touch to the idea that McCain wasn't willing to make the attacks in person.
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VIDEO: The McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio  —  UPDATE - THANK KOS & WONKETTE & DIGG!!  Please donate to keep my camera charged and the gas tank filled for more Ohio fun!  —  It's no wonder that the slightest incitement from Sarah Palin or John McCain will turn one of their rallies into a lynch mob.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
McCain Goes There  —  Waukesha, Wisconsin — In response to a broad question about how Barack Obama “got here” — presumably got his lead — John McCain didn't name Bill Ayers but spoke of him directly.  McCain said “We don't care about an old washed up terrorist and his wife” …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Rage in the Town of Bethlehem  —  BETHLEHEM, Pa. Now, it's personal.  —  John McCain and Sarah Palin were backstage, and Lehigh County GOP Chairman Bill Platt was warming up the crowd of 6,000 at a rally here for the Republican ticket.  —  “Think about how you'll feel on November 5 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
McCain goes full frontal on Obama-Ayers connection  —  Team McCain has a new ad out this morning called “Ayers”, a comprehensive attack on Obama on his relationship with former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers.  This isn't just a suggestive 30-second spot.
Frank James / The Swamp:
McCain ad pushes ‘risky’ Obama theme
On Politics:
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll signals that debate boosted Obama, not McCain  —  Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama convinced many more viewers to think more favorably of him during Tuesday night's presidential debate than did his Republican opponent, John McCain, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll signals.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 52%, McCain 41%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report shows Barack Obama maintaining a 52% to 41% lead over John McCain, unchanged from Wednesday's report.  —  These results, based on Oct. 6-8 polling, include one day of interviewing …
Discussion: Comments from Left Field and MyDD
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE PROBLEM WITH POLLS.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Obama to McCain: Why won't you say it to my face?
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
States' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal  —  Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.
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Ryan Grim / The Crypt's Blogs:
Boehner escalates war on ACORN
Discussion: Hot Air
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
QUESTIONER: ‘I ACTUALLY DID’ KNOW FANNIE  —  From NBC's Michael Levine  —  I tried to get in touch via Facebook with Oliver Clark, the man who McCain said probably didn't know what Fannie Mae was before the financial crisis (at Tuesday's debate).  Apparently others have done the same.
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Dem strategists see landslide in the making  —  Three weeks of historic economic upheaval has done more than just tilt a handful of once-reliably Republican states in Barack Obama's direction.  Democratic strategists are now optimistic that the ongoing crisis could lead to a landslide Obama victory.
Phil Izzo / Wall Street Journal:
Economists Expect U.S. Crisis to Deepen  —  The U.S. economy has sunk into a recession and government action is critical to stem the damage, according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.  —  “We're in the middle of a very dark tunnel,” said Brian Fabbri of BNP Paribas …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Unravel’  —  A new Obama ad, airing (at least) in Florida, paints an alarming picture of McCain's health care plan, warning that it could cause viewers to lose their health care.  —  The campaign hasn't released the ad, or other attacks on McCain's plan, but the Republican National Committee caught …
Discussion: The Hill and Real Clear Politics
George F. Will / Washington Post:
McCain in a Bear Market  —  Time was, the Baltimore Orioles' manager was Earl Weaver, a short, irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, as he frequently was, would shout at an umpire, “Are you going to get any better or is this it?”  With, mercifully, only one debate to go, that is the question about John McCain's campaign.
Bill White / Anchorage Daily News:
Todd Palin campaigned years to get trooper fired  —  SWORN STATEMENT: He says he wanted to protect his family.  —  bwhite@adn.com  —  Todd Palin talked with over a dozen state officials, many of them repeatedly, in his crusade to get a state trooper fired whom he considered to be a bad cop …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Pressing Ayers  —  McCain isn't putting any money behind an Ayers ad at the moment, but he is still pressing the issue, Amie Parnes reports from his Wisconsin town hall.  —  There, a man asked how Obama came to be where he is, but didn't mention Ayers.  —  “Everyone here is just tickled …
Rich Lowry / The Corner:
Most Left-Wing Ever?  —  I was just chatting this over with Jonah.  If Obama is elected, won't we have our most left-wing government ever?  Obama is to the left of FDR and LBJ, Democrats who existed in a different world, prior to the cultural revolution in the Democratic party.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Whiskey Fire
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Supreme Court won't block Troopergate inquiry  —  The Alaska Supreme Court today rejected an attempt by a group of six Republican legislators to shut down the Legislature's investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin.  —  The ruling means that Steve Branchflower, the investigator hired by the Legislative Council …
Discussion: Mudflats
The Huffington Post:
McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama “A Guy Of The Street,” Raises Drug Use  —  Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a McCain campaign co-chairman, edged up to an explicitly racial attack on Barack Obama on Thursday, describing the Illinois Senator as a “guy of the street” before raising his youthful drug use.
Discussion: Hot Air and TIME.com
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“He's Got The Bloodlines”  —  McCain-Palin supporters at a Palin rally tell us what they think of the “terrorist” running for president.  More accusations from McCain supporters in Pennsylvania that Obama is a “commie faggot” and a Muslim terrorist here.
Discussion: Salon, Reason and The New Republic
Matt / Think Progress:
The Bridge To Nowhere Lie Returns: McCain Claims Palin ‘Stood Up Against’ The Project  —  After the talking point was thoroughly debunked, the McCain campaign slowly backed away from the claim that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said “thank but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Obama as “terrorist”  —  A sad video taken by an Obama backer outside a McCain visit yesterday in Ohio featuring Republicans saying Obama is “a terrorist,” among other things.  —  Party activists of the sort who show up at rallies always tend to be more partisan, but it's difficult to imagine …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE PROSPECT OF 60.... Periodically over the last few months …
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Andrew Roth / Club for Growth:
Obama vs. S&P 500  —  A friend of mine who works in the finance industry sent this to me:
Discussion: The Corner
Daniel Nichanian / The Atlantic Online:
McCain's Armenia Problem
Discussion: Eunomia and The RBC
Satyam / Think Progress:
Keating to McCain in 1986: 'I'm yours til death do us part.'
Discussion: Washington Times
Caleb Hellerman / CNN:
Poll: Half concerned McCain wouldn't finish term
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Third Party Groundswell
Tim Paradis / Associated Press:
Dow plunges more than 678 to fall below 9,000
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
And McCain Is An Honorable Man I
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Daily Mail:
Gardener ordered to take down barbed wire fence 'in case thieves …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
In Manner, Obama Is Far From Clintonesque
Discussion: The New Republic
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Senate Projections, 10/9  —  Democrats continue to make gains …
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