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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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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 …
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” …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and JustOneMinute
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.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
McCain launches Ayers ad  —  John McCain's campaign released a new 90-second web ad Thursday on Barack Obama's relationship with 1960s radical William Ayers.  —  Ayers is referred to as a terrorist throughout the ad, as is his “friendship” with Obama.  —  “Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Major shock: Eavesdropping powers abused without oversight
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.
Discussion: TIME.com and The Other McCain
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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 …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE PROBLEM WITH POLLS.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
New York Times:
Administration Is Considering Cash Injections Into Banks  —  WASHINGTON — Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, the White House said on Thursday.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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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.
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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Two kinds of fraud  —  “Acorn” may not exactly be a household word …
Discussion: pandagon.net
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.
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Chris Orr / The New Republic:
Next Stop, Berkeley
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
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 …
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.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Birth Of Trig  —  For the record, two contemporary accounts: here and here from the local media of last April 18.  Despite all this publicity, the Palins didn't want their child to be included in the hospital website's list.  Privacy?  Oversight?  Accident?  Oh, and in response to some readers:
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
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
National Review:
Frank-Dodd 2008!  —  Here is what is wrong with McCain's new housing proposal: It can't improve on current law without rewarding an unacceptable amount of bad behavior.  —  Under the Frank-Dodd housing bill that was signed into law last summer, borrowers qualify for a federally subsidized workout …
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.
The Huffington Post:
Obama, McCain Transition Efforts Are Worlds Apart  —  As the 2008 campaign nears its conclusion, the presidential transition efforts of the two major candidates have become a study in contrasts: Sen. Barack Obama has organized an elaborate well-staffed network to prepare for his possible ascension …
Sharon Waxman / The Daily Beast:
At the Craps Tables With John McCain  —  Welcome to The Daily Beast: A Q&A with Tina Brown  —  How the Senator Lost it at a Puerto Rican Casino  —  For this entire presidential campaign, the media have been waiting for John McCain's famous temper to explode.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
In Manner, Obama Is Far From Clintonesque  —  CHICAGO — Though their politics have much in common, the man who aspires to be the next Democratic president could hardly seem more different than the last one in terms of temperament.  —  During the 1992 presidential race …
Discussion: The New Republic
Daily Mail:
Gardener ordered to take down barbed wire fence ‘in case thieves hurt themselves on it’ … A gardener has been ordered by council chiefs to remove three foot high barbed wire ringing his allotment - in case thieves scratch themselves climbing over it.  —  Bill Malcolm, 61 …
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 …
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Schmidt's Opening?  —  John Heilemann on how McCain lost his brand:
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Amy Schalet / Washington Post:
A Question for Sarah Palin
Discussion: The Corner and The Foundry
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama's Race May Be as Much a Plus as a Minus
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Bill Ayers: I've been saying for 40 years, you can't separate …
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