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4:45 PM ET, October 10, 2008

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Christopher Buckley / The Daily Beast:
Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama  —  Welcome to The Daily Beast: A Q&A with Tina Brown  —  The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat.  —  Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Panic attacks: Voters unload at GOP rallies  —  The unmistakable momentum behind Barack Obama's campaign, combined with worry that John McCain is not doing enough to stop it, is ratcheting up fears and frustrations among conservatives.  —  And nowhere is this emotion on plainer display …
Pat Shellenbarger / MLive.com:
Former governor Milliken backs away from McCain  —  GRAND RAPIDS — He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party's nominee.  —  “He is not the McCain I endorsed,” said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday.
The Huffington Post:
Obama Called “Traitor” Again At McCain Rally  —  John McCain's rally on Friday once again inspired furious reactions from his supporters, with one woman screaming “traitor!” as McCain criticized Barack Obama's tax record.  —  “He promised higher taxes on electricity,” McCain charged at the event in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Wall Street Journal:
McCain Campaign Is at Odds Over Negative Attacks' Scope  —  Senator Says Faith Issue Puts Obama's Former Pastor off Limits  —  Top McCain campaign officials are grappling with how far to go with negative attacks on Sen. Barack Obama in the final weeks of what is turning into a come-from-behind effort.
Sarah Palin / The Huffington Post:
Former McCain Strategist Warns Against “Angry Mob”  —  John Weaver, John McCain's former top strategist, says the Republican candidate is making both a moral and a a tactical mistake by letting abusive hecklers have free rein at rallies: … Yesterday, McCain encouraged a questioner who ranted about …
Frank Schaeffer / Baltimore Sun:
McCain's attacks fuel dangerous hatred
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:   Republicans have no candidate
Marc Ambinder:
Is McCain Serious About Ayers? Evidence Says No.
Washington Post:
Anger Is Crowd's Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:   Anti-Obama Fury Spills Over Into Down-Ticket Contests: “Bomb Obama”
Cleveland Leader:
Barack Obama's Involvement with ACORN Unearthed, Missing Article Recovered  — Elections - Elections 2008 - News - Politics - Society - U.S. Politics - US News  —  While Barack Obama's connection with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has not gone entirely unreported, it has not been fully explained.
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Jeane MacIntosh / New York Post:
1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS  —  ‘ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS’  —  CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.
Hartford Courant:
High Court Grants Gay Marriage Rights  —  Beth Kerrigan and Jody Mock sat hunkered down in front of their computer in their West Hartford home Friday morning, sifting through the voluminous Supreme Court decision in their case seeking the right to marry as a same-sex couple.
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Waxy.org:
Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey  —  Like the rest of the world, I've been completely obsessed with the presidential election and nonstop news coverage.  My drug of choice?  Gabe Rivera's Memeorandum, the political sister site of Techmeme …
Barbara Slavin / Washington Times:
Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal  —  In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay  —  At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried …
Albert Bozzo / CNBC.com:
Radical Measures May Be In The Wings  —  As the financial crisis threatens to spiral out of control, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is prepared to take extraordinary steps through the extensive authority granted to him under emergency rescue legislation.  —  With the legislation's main mechanism …
Susan Schmidt / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Staff Slips Up With Muslim Outreach  —  The Obama campaign said it was a mistake for an outreach coordinator to join a meeting last month attended by leaders of two controversial Muslim groups as it seeks votes from large Muslim populations in swing states.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and YID With LID
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Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
The End Of American Capitalism?  —  The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is claiming another casualty: American-style capitalism.  —  Since the 1930s, U.S. banks were the flagships of American economic might, and emulation by other nations of the fiercely free-market financial system …
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The Corner:
Fear Itself  —  George Bush has probably had the hardest administration since Lincoln.
Discussion: Wonkette and alicublog
Bob Gardinier / Albany Times Union:
Barack ‘Osama’ on Rensselaer County ballots  —  TROY — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's last name is spelled “Osama” on hundreds of absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensselaer County.  —  The misspelling, which elections officials on both sides of the aisle insist …
Discussion: Think Progress and Truthdig
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Coleman says he's going 100 percent positive  —  Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign announced Friday it is pulling all of its negative advertisements off the airwaves.  —  Coleman (R-Minn.) said he will pull all negative ads run against Democrat Al Franken and will urge all his supporters to do the same.
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colemanforsenate.com:
“Our Best Days are Yet to Come.” - Senator Norm Coleman
New York Post:
GOLLY, PALIN TO PLAY HERSELF ON ‘SNL’  —  SOCCER moms and Joe Sixpacks, listen up.  Get your beer, mooseburgers and caribou dips ready.  Sarah Palin is doing “Saturday Night Live.”  Not Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin doing “Saturday Night Live.”  But the Sarah Herself.  She has already OK'd it.
Discussion: Political Machine
Paul Krugman:
Not about the financial crisis  —  The crisis isn't the only scary thing going on.  Something very ugly is taking shape on the political scene: as McCain's chances fade, the crowds at his rallies are, by all accounts, increasingly gripped by insane rage.  It's not just a mob phenomenon …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
William C. Ibershof / New York Times:
Prosecuting Weathermen  —  To the Editor:  —  Re “Politics of Attack” (editorial, Oct. 8) and “Obama and '60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths” (front page, Oct. 4):  —  As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not mentioning the market  —  McCain didn't talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn't put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was asked about that on a conference call (about Acorn!) this afternoon.  —  “There's very little a candidate …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 51%, McCain 41%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama has a 51% to 41% lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report involving interviewing conducted Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights.  —  These results show little major change in the basic structure …
Discussion: Needlenose and MyDD
Jim Manzi / The Corner:
The Current Stock Market Decline...  ...should not freak you out, at least in and of itself.  This is a ferocious bear market, but, so far, it is an almost exact repeat of what happened after the collapse of the .com bubble about 5 years ago.  In fact, if we were to repeat that experience …
Marc Ambinder:
Senate Race Rankings: 57+ For Democrats  —  Every analyst does their own version of Senate race rankings.  They're easy to do and they draw traffic.  Mine are below.  The polls close in Kentucky at 6:00 pm ET, so we'll have a pretty good idea pretty early if Democrats will hit 60 Senate seats.
Ross Douthat:
Be Careful What You Wish For  —  Larison responds to my post on realignment, contingency, and why conservatives shouldn't necessary welcome the wilderness: … It's true that the election won't be won for McCain by conservatives who “come home” and turn out in '04-style numbers for him …
Discussion: Eunomia
New York Times:
Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records  —  Last December, someone using the name “Test Person,” from “Some Place, UT,” made a series of contributions, the largest being $764, to Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign totaling $2,410.07.  —  Someone identifying himself as …
 
 
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Garance Franke-Ruta / Washington Post:
McCain Seeks Reform of 401(k) Rules
Michael Pollan / New York Times:
Farmer in Chief  —  It may surprise you to learn that among …
Discussion: Gristmill
ABCNEWS:
President Bush Speaks on Ailing Economy
Discussion: Think Progress and NewsBusters.org
Wall Street Journal:
Dow Makes a Late Comeback
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and TIME.com
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Obama Maintains Lead Over McCain
Peter Robinson / The Corner:
The Booming of the Big Guns
Tom LoBianco / Washington Times:
Protesting nuns branded terrorists
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Attacks McCain-Palin For Stoking Fear and Anger At Rallies
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Megan McArdle:
In exchange . . .  One of the smarter ideas I've heard for trying …
Discussion: Kevin Drum
Steve Scherer / Bloomberg:
Berlusconi Says Leaders May Close World's Markets
Discussion: Gawker, Reason and Pat Dollard
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
GETTIN' UNDER HIS SKIN?
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
A Question of Barack Obama's Character