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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 …
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Major shock: Eavesdropping powers abused without oversight
Discussion: Think Progress
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and Donklephant
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
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.
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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.
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Jon Swift:
Let McCain Be McCain  —  In this week's lackluster debate …
Discussion: American Street
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 …
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:
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 …
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama's Race May Be as Much a Plus as a Minus  —  Not much different from the impact of McCain's race  —  PRINCETON, NJ — While 6% of voters say they are less likely to vote for Barack Obama because of his race, 9% say they are more likely to vote for him, making the impact of his race …
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.
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 …
Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
News Flash: The Media Back Obama  —  Its activist role has been the single constant in this eternal election.  —  Both time and events have dimmed those defining moments that early on revealed the difference between the two presidential aspirants.  Not only did the financial crisis arrive but so …
Discussion: Townhall.com and PoliGazette
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.
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.
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 …
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
French Writer Wins Nobel Prize  —  PARIS — The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, a cosmopolitan and prolific French novelist, children's author and essayist regarded by many French readers and critics as one of the country's greatest living writers.
Discussion: Guardian and The American Scene
 
 
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