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2:30 PM ET, October 10, 2008

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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 …
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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.
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.
Marc Ambinder:
Is McCain Serious About Ayers?  Evidence Says No.  —  Is John McCain really serious about questioning Barack Obama's association with William Ayers?  —  The evidence suggests he is not.  —  To truly drive Ayers into the public conversation, to trick what they consider an irredeemably biased press corps …
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 …
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Republicans have no candidate
Discussion: protein wisdom
Frank Schaeffer / Baltimore Sun:
McCain's attacks fuel dangerous hatred
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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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.
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.
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 …
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
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 De Grauwe / Financial Times:
Temporary full state ownership is only solution  —  The essence of what banks do in normal times is to borrow short and lend long.  In doing so, they transform short-term assets into long ones, thereby creating credit and liquidity.  Put differently, by borrowing short and lending long …
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Main Street's Rescue
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Ross Douthat
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 …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe  —  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On the eve of a report on a legislative panel's abuse-of-power investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report clearing her of any wrongdoing.
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Anchorage Daily News:
Troopergate findings are due today
Discussion: TPMMuckraker, The Swamp and The Caucus
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 …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Class War Before Palin  —  Modern conservatism began as a movement of dissident intellectuals.  Richard Weaver wrote a book called, “Ideas Have Consequences.”  Russell Kirk placed Edmund Burke in an American context.  William F. Buckley famously said he'd rather be governed …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Dodd and Countrywide  —  The Senator should take the witness stand.  —  Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld was under oath Monday when he was grilled on Capitol Hill about his role in the current financial meltdown.  But if Members really want to understand the credit mania, they should also call Chris Dodd.
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 …
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
 
 
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Gallup Daily: Obama 51%, McCain 41%
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Tom LoBianco / Washington Times:
Protesting nuns branded terrorists
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Megan McArdle:
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Tim Paradis / Associated Press:
Dow down 527 as stocks extend devastating decline
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
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Ballots cast in Houston using dead voters' names
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The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right
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Pollster: Don't believe the Dem hype
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