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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.
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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.
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 …
David Frum:
Obama in the Corner  —  Let me say at the outset:  —  I'll be voting for John McCain on November 4.  —  I'll be voting for the man who was right about the surge, who holds clear-eyed views about terrorism and America's enemies, who has fought for leaner government over 20 years …
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Black Congressmen Declare Racism In Palin's Rhetoric  —  ‘Racism Is Alive, Well’ Says Democrat Ed Towns; Greg Meeks: ‘Racial’  —  Barack Obama.  —  As the McCain campaign ratchets up the intensity of its attacks on Barack Obama, some black elected officials are calling the tactics desperate, unseemly and racist.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
McCain launches Ayers ad
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Shakesville
Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
NUTS!  —  HOW ACORN GOT ME INTO VOTE SCAM  —  CLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino's pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they'd already signed up.
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Rob / Say Anything:
More Voter Registration Shenanigans: Indianapolis Has 105% …
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Inside Account of US Eavesdropping on Americans  —  US Officer's “Phone Sex” Intercepted, Recorded, Shared Across NSA Listening Post  —  Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped …
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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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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.
Bill White / Anchorage Daily News:
Todd Palin campaigned years for firing trooper  —  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 …
Ryan / Think Progress:
McCain calls for Obama to retract ‘air-raiding’ comment, despite making identical comments in 2000.  —  In August 2007, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) remarked that the war in Afghanistan “requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.”
Discussion: Spin Cycle
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Fox News:
Exclusive: Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin on ‘Hannity & Colmes’
Discussion: Washington Post
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
National Rifle Association endorses McCain  —  WASHINGTON - The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions.  —  NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre …
Amy Schalet / Washington Post:
A Question for Sarah Palin  —  Sarah Palin faced a variety of questions at last week's debate, but not the one I would have asked: “Should public school students be taught that contraception and condoms can prevent unintended pregnancy and disease?”  —  Palin has referred to her teenage …
Discussion: The Corner and The Foundry
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BAITING MCCAIN.... One almost gets the sense that Barack Obama wants John McCain to confront him directly with some of these guilt-by-association attacks.  ABC's Charlie Gibson sat down with Obama yesterday, and asked whether he was surprised that McCain didn't go in this direction during Tuesday's debate.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Schmidt's Opening?  —  John Heilemann on how McCain lost his brand: … I don't buy this any more.  I've come to the sad conclusion that McCain's brand was just that.  His real core is about power and ambition, divorced, when necessary, from principle or patriotism.
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
From Outsider To Politician  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. The taunting began as soon as Barack Obama joined the Illinois Senate in January 1997.  He had expected to face some skepticism as a political neophyte, but not such outright hostility.  For the first few months of his career as a lawmaker …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Corrente and MSNBC
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CAN DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY GET TO 60 IN THE SENATE?  —  It's gotten a bit less attention than the shifting momentum at the presidential level, but in the last few weeks, the outlook for Democrats in the Senate has brightened considerably.  With Norm Coleman now a likely loser …
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.
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Bill Ayers: I've been saying for 40 years, you can't separate “the concept of progressive education from the concept of politics and political change”  —  Reader John Rylanders points Cornerites to this very interesting October 2006 interview of Bill Ayers in Revolution (the self-styled …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
McCain Campaign Tries To See Glass as Half Full  —  Behind in Polls, Republican Needs Momentum  —  It was a late night for John McCain's campaign — a post-debate repast of karaoke until the wee hours of the rain-soaked morning.  They sang neither in celebration nor to drown their sorrows.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Soviet document shows Biden sold out human-rights concerns  —  According to internal Soviet Union documents from the SALT-2 negotiations in 1979, Joe Biden effectively told Soviet negotiators not to worry about American rhetoric about human-rights concerns.  In fact, Biden also told the Soviets …
 
 
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