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12:00 PM ET, October 14, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Acorn  —  Community organizers, phony voters, and your tax dollars.  —  At the recent Emmy Awards, historian Laura Linney averred that America's Founders had been “community organizers” — like Barack Obama.  Too bad they aren't like that any more.
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Richard Danielson / St. Petersburg Times:
Vote drives defended, despite fake names  —  Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer, but Orange County elections officials rejected his application, which had an ACORN stamp on it.  —  Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer.
New York Post:
BOGUS VOTER BOOTED AMID PROBE OF ACORN  —  4,000 OF LEFT-WING GROUP'S SIGN-UPS ARE SHADY  —  By JEANE MacINTOSH in Cleveland and MAGGIE HABERMAN in New York  —  Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address …
Jim Hoft / Pajamas Media:
The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud  —  They register dead people.  But that's not all.  —  And you thought 2000 was bad.  —  This year's election is shaping up to be one of the most controversial in history.  Just this week, a federal judge ordered Ohio's top elections official …
Investor's Business Daily:
Obamacorn  —  Election '08: Barack Obama lies about his ACORN past …
Randyj / TIME.com:
McCain: Last Debate Will Probably Include Ayers  —  Speaking on St. Louis radio, the candidate says Obama's recent comments have “probably ensured” the former Weather Underground leader will come up in Wednesday's debate.  —  “I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised I didn't have the guts” to talk about Ayers last week.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:   McCain: Ayers will come up in debate
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:   McCain and the Raging Right
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Announces Plan to Buy Stakes in Largest Banks  —  Recipients Include Citi, Bank of America, Goldman; Government Pressures All to Accept Money as Part of Broadened Rescue Effort  —  WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush announced Tuesday morning that the U.S. government is taking stakes …
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Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Donors Resent Being Blamed by McCain  —  NEW YORK — Sen. John McCain badly needs the cash infusion and momentum from a Tuesday night fund-raiser in New York.  But the senator's recent demonizing of Wall Street made it tough to lure contributors, with Wall Street …
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
It's Wall Street's Turn to Bolster Confidence
Discussion: A Tiny Revolution
National Enquirer:
OBAMA SEX PERV SCANDAL  —  The ENQUIRER exclusively reports a “sex pervert” was Sen. Barack Obama's longtime mentor and “father figure”.  —  For seven years, the presidential candidate had a “father-son” relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, who has confessed to having sex with children …
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Anchorage Daily News:
Palin vindicated?  —  Governor offers Orwellian spin  —  Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.  —  She claims the report “vindicates” her.  She said that the investigation found “no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.”
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Associated Press:
Sen. Clinton says 2nd White House run is unlikely  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton puts the chances of her running for president again at near zero — slightly higher than the chances she gives for becoming Senate majority leader or a Supreme Court justice.
Discussion: TIME.com and Yahoo! News
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Greg Bluestein / Associated Press:
High court turns down Ga. death row inmate
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Agitator
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Worst Case Scenario  —  What an Obama administration and a heavily Democratic Congress would accomplish.  —  John McCain trails Barack Obama and shows no signs, at the moment anyway, of propelling himself into the lead.  Democrats lead in eight Senate seats currently held by Republicans and are close in three others.
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Wright 101  —  Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright's anti-Americanism  —  It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg.  Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright's sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama Widens Lead in Four Key States  —  Barack Obama widened his lead considerably over John McCain in four key battleground states during the past three weeks, providing further evidence that the economic crisis has greatly enhanced the Democrat's advantage with just 21 days left before Election Day.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe
David Brooks / New York Times:
Big Government Ahead  —  We're in the middle of a financial crisis, but most economists say there is a broader economic crisis still to come.  The unemployment rate will shoot upward.  Companies will go bankrupt.  Commercial real estate values will decline.  Credit card defaults will rise.
Wall Street Journal:
America Will Remain the Superpower  —  When the tide laps at Gulliver's waistline, it usually means the Lilliputians are already 10 feet under.  —  Constantinople fell to the Ottomans after two centuries of retreat and decline.  It took two world wars, a global depression and the onset of the Cold War to lay the British Empire low.
Discussion: Polimom Says
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
“Yep.  Every week. 11 oclock service.”  —  I am baffled why it is racist to inquire about the racist Rev. Wright when Obama himself not so long ago boasted of the value of his friendship with Wright, and sympathetic journalists saw the radical Wright as a sort of proof of Obama's leftwing fides.
Discussion: Moonbattery
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Confirmed: Obama Is Campaigning on Xbox 360!  —  Last week we noted unconfirmed sightings of an “Obama for President” billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise.  Today we're able to report that it is, in fact, an official advertisement placed by the senator's campaign team.
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Political Punch
 
 
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Closing a Deal in Pa.
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Sarah Palin heads for Indiana Friday; not a good sign for GOP
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