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11:40 PM ET, October 13, 2008

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ABCNEWS:
Congressman's $121,000 Payoff to Alleged Mistress  —  Tim Mahoney Elected to Remove ‘Ethical Cloud’ of His Disgraced Predecessor, Mark Foley  —  West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress …
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The Politico:
Scandal engulfs Florida Democrat  —  The Democrat who replaced disgraced Florida Rep. Mark Foley — running on a pledge to restore dignity to the office — now faces a jaw-dropping election-year sex scandal of his own.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is calling for an ethics committee probe …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Set to Buy Preferred Stock in Nine Top Banks  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is set to buy preferred equity stakes in nine top financial institutions as part of its new comprehensive plan to tackle the credit crisis, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Investing $250 Billion in Banks  —  WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department, in its boldest move yet, is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to invest up to $250 billion in large and small banks, according to officials.  The United States is also expected to guarantee new debt issued …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and EconLog
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Obama's C*nt: Supporter's Vile T-Shirt Prominently Displayed on Barack Obama's Own Website  —  Ben Smith wrote: … Supporting Obama?  I'll say!  —  Here's the Number Two google hit for Rhiannon Volpe (um, yeah, and I'm Max Howitzer):  —  This s**t is on Obama's own website.  —  How charming.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Little Green Footballs:
Ugly Misogyny at the Official Obama Blog Site  —  The media keep hammering away at the “ugly incidents” at McCain-Palin rallies, but oddly they fail to notice stuff like this at the official Barack Obama blog site: Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need |  Rhiannon-Marie Volpe.
CNN:
McCain calls Lewis remarks ‘outrageous’  —  (CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were “so disturbing” that they “stopped me in my tracks.”  —  Lewis, a Georgia representative and veteran of the civil rights movement, on Saturday compared the feeling …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and TIME.com
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Tucker Carlson / The Daily Beast:   Bring Back Rev. Wright  —  Why won't the McCain campaign attack …
Katie Escherich / ABCNEWS:
Biden on Negative Tone: 'You Don't Want to Encourage Fringe People'
Discussion: American Power and TIME.com
Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
Congressman says McCain sowing ‘seeds of hatred’
Washington Wire:
McCain's Monday Campaigning Leaves Some Puzzled  —  Elizabeth Holmes reports from Wilmington, N.C., on the presidential race.  —  Several things about John McCain's Monday caused some head scratching, including the tease of some new economic policies to a town hall meeting with no Q&A.
Discussion: New York Times and Spin Cycle
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Marc Ambinder:
McCain Will Focus On Economy Tomorrow
Discussion: The New Republic
David Frum:
I Get So Weary of This ...  From the Corner today:  —  Respectfully Disagreeing [Kathryn Jean Lopez]  —  David Frum was on CBS this morning and expressed his view that the choice of Sarah Palin was a mistake.  He complained that it was a play to the base that hurts people like Coleman …
Faiz / Think Progress:
McCain campaign attacks Bill Kristol: 'He's bought into the Obama campaign's party line.'  —  Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol said John McCain's campaign has really become “a pathetic campaign.”  In his New York Times op-ed this morning, Kristol went further, suggesting that McCain should …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Republican activists off-message at McCain rallies (cont)  —  An AFP shot from this morning in Virginia Beach.  —  I'm told in Ricmond, where Palin is now, the signs only accuse Obama of being a communist and Marxist.
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John McCain 2008:
Remarks By John McCain in Virginia Beach, VA
Discussion: BAGnewsNotes and The Caucus
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
RICO ACTION TO BE FILED AGAINST ACORN TOMORROW MORNING NOTE MAJOR WALK-BACK OF ORIGINAL STORY  —  Major, Tentative Walk-Back: The “US Attorney” part has been deleted from the headline.  Not bait and switch; just can't stand by that at the moment.  —  Damnit.  In all likelihood this is not as great as first reported.
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Fox News:
Cleveland Election Officials Launch Probe of ACORN
Holly Rosenkrantz / Bloomberg:
Nobel Prize to Arch-Critic Krugman Is Blow to Bush  —  Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush, whose approval ratings are at historic lows as the U.S. veers toward a recession or worse, got yet another thumb in the eye when one of his most vociferous critics was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Say Anything
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The New Republic:
Nobel Prize for Krugman, the Real World Economist!
Discussion: The Corner and Hotline On Call
New York Times:
Obama Details Plan to Aid Victims of Fiscal Crisis  —  TOLEDO, Ohio — Senator Barack Obama proposed new steps on Monday to address the economic crisis, calling for temporary but costly new programs to help employers, automakers, homeowners, the unemployed, and state and local governments.
Discussion: American Street and TIME.com
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Rasmussen Reports:
FOX/Rasmussen Swing State Polling - October 12, 2008  —  Overview  —  Fox News/Rasmussen Reports polling this week in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia shows a very stable race whose underlying dynamic strongly favors Barack Obama over John McCain.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Post/ABC Poll: McCain's Structural Problems  —  Photo by Mary Altaffer of the Associated Press  —  The new Washington Post/ABC News national poll puts John McCain behind Barack Obama by 10 points — his biggest deficit in the survey since the general election began in June.
Washington Post:
A New Wrinkle (or Unwrinkle) in the Campaign: The Biden Brow  —  Joe Biden looks . . . different.  —  Something about his eyes, which seem smaller, and his forehead, which seems smoother.  Compared with images from last year, he seems better rested — yet also, strangely, a little sleepier.
Discussion: Don Surber
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
AN OBAMA PANIC?  —  MARKETS FEAR HIS POLICIES  —  Barack Obama has re mained cool and confident amid the financial melt down, even as John McCain at times has been embarrassing, lurching from one proposal to the next.  But while the polls are reflecting Obama's steady hand, the markets haven't.
Discussion: The Big Picture and The Raw Story
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Great Moments In Right-Wing Punditry  —  Via the comments, this gem from the Powerline on 8 August 2005: … John Hinderaker, in peak form.  —  Considering my recent past (at least up until mid 2005), I am not really in a position to get all high and mighty, but after being staggeringly wrong …
Amanda Scott / Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
Senator Obama's Economic Rescue Plan for the Middle Class  —  Senator Obama delivered a major economic policy address to lay out his economic rescue plan for the middle class in Toledo, Ohio this afternoon.  —  He unveiled his Economic Rescue Plan for The Middle Class.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Speech: There's One Word On Everyone's Mind, And It's Spelled J-O-B-S
Discussion: TalkLeft and MyDD
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over  —  WASHINGTON — Howard Wolfson, the generally pessimistic Democratic consultant who was a senior adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, wrote an item on his blog at The New Republic the other day, declaring without qualification that Senator Barack Obama would defeat Senator John McCain.
 
 
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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Hank Williams Jr. Serenades McCain, Palin
Discussion: Top of the Ticket and Wonkette
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law
The Trail / Washington Post:
Questioning Obama  —  For the past two weeks, the focus …
Discussion: The New Republic and TIME.com
Carl Bernstein / The Huffington Post:
Ayers and the McCain-G. Gordon Liddy Symbiosis
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
MEAT IS NOT CHEAP.  —  I already posted on the general outlines …
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Howard Stern Conducts an Experiment with Some, Um, “Low-Information” Obama Voters
Tim Eberly / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
One in three recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have criminal records
The Huffington Post:
Tina Fey On Sarah Palin: “If She Wins...I'm Leaving Earth”