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5:25 AM ET, October 10, 2008

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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.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Hispanics turn cold shoulder to McCain  —  Despite championing immigration reform in 2007, John McCain is poised to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin that is well below President George W. Bush's 2004 performance.  —  Polls show Obama winning the broadest support from Latino voters …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
CNN:
McCain surrogate raises Obama's past drug use  —  (CNN) — A prominent surrogate for John McCain on Thursday raised Barack Obama's admitted cocaine use as a teenager and said the Illinois senator should speak candidly about it to the American people.  —  Speaking to Dennis Miller …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
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.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Pressing Ayers  —  McCain isn't putting any money behind …
Serge F. Kovaleski / New York Times:
In Dozens of Calls, Palins and Aides Pressed for Trooper's Removal  —  ANCHORAGE — The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one of his troopers, Michael Wooten.  This time, the director of Gov. Sarah Palin's Anchorage office was on the line.
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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Sensitive Palin ethics report kept secret, for now  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report that, when released Friday, could prove embarrassing to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama on Ayers: ‘I assumed that he had been rehabilitated’  —  In an interview with the sympathetic conservative talk radio host this afternoon, Obama offered the clearest explanation yet of how an extremely careful politician allowed himself anywhere near a former '60s radical who would become …
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Ross Douthat:
Ayers, McCain and the Dow
Discussion: Liberty Street
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:   A half-hour of prime time?  —  I'm starting to get the sense …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Moment of Truth  —  Last month, when the U.S. Treasury Department allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, I wrote that Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, was playing financial Russian roulette.  Sure enough, there was a bullet in that chamber: Lehman's failure caused the world financial crisis, already severe, to get much, much worse.
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New York Times:
Nations Weighing Global Approach as Chaos Spreads
Discussion: naked capitalism
Phil Izzo / Wall Street Journal:
Economists Expect U.S. Crisis to Deepen
Discussion: Hot Air, The Swamp and Econbrowser
Maggie Thurber / Thurber's Thoughts:
BREAKING: Federal Court says Ohio Secretary of State broke voter laws  —  A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.
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Michelle Malkin:
Judge rules Ohio Secretary of State violated federal election law …
Discussion: Palestra.net and Wizbang
Eric Pfanner / International Herald Tribune:
Iceland is all but officially bankrupt  —  REYKJAVIK: People go bankrupt all the time.  Companies do, too.  But countries?  —  Iceland was on the verge of doing exactly that on Thursday as the government shut down the stock market and seized control of its last major independent bank.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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Guardian:   Gordon Brown considers legal action against Iceland
Nouriel Roubini / Nouriel Roubini's Global …:
The world is at severe risk of a global systemic financial meltdown and a severe global depression  —  The US and advanced economies' financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in free fall, money markets have shut …
Washington Post:
Anger Is Crowd's Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally  —  There were shouts of “Nobama” and “Socialist” at the mention of the Democratic presidential nominee.  There were boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down as a media caravan moved through the crowd Thursday …
Discussion: BAGnewsNotes, Pajamas Media and TPMCafe
The Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
For Republicans, Another Blood Bath Looms on Horizon  —  I've seen this movie before, and I know how it ends.  Republican candidates from presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) down to Congressional hopefuls have less than four weeks to figure out how to avert a repeat of 2006.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Rothenberg Warns of GOP “Bloodbath”
Salon:
Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals  —  Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy.  “Her door was open,” says Chryson — and still is. … Video: Interview with former Alaskan Independence Party chairman Mark Chryson
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.
Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:
Who is Barack Obama?  Part II  —  Following the links on John Hinderaker's post on Obama's apparent affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America/New Party leads you to DSA newsletters that make several references to Obama between 1995—2004.  According to the newsletters:
Discussion: This ain't Hell …
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans  —  U.S. Officers' “Phone Sex” Intercepted, Recorded, Shared Across NSA Listening Post  —  US Soldier's ‘Phone Sex’ Intercepted, Shared  —  Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious …
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Keating to McCain in 1986: 'I'm yours til death do us part.'  —  The Washington Times reports that in 1986, John McCain wrote a note on House stationery to Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings and loan association who went to prison in the late 1980s.
Marc Ambinder:
Is John McCain's Homeowner Resurgence Plan legal?  —  Folks who are much more savvy on the specifics of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) wonder whether the government's $700 billion bailout/rescue program expressly prohibits what John McCain now says he wants to do …
Discussion: Political Radar and The RBC
 
 
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iowahawk:
ACORN Files Voting Rights Suit on Behalf of Imaginary-Americans
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
BIDEN TRIES SOME NEW LINES
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Bloomberg:
Asian Stocks Plunge as Credit Crisis Widens; Nikkei Tumbles
Discussion: naked capitalism
Marc Ambinder:
ACORN Rallies Its Troops
Discussion: Hot Air, The Crypt's Blogs and The RBC
Esquire:
Esquire Endorses Barack Obama for President
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