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3:10 PM ET, October 14, 2008

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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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama's Ayers ad  —  Here's the audio of Obama's new radio spot responding to attacks on his relationship to Bill Ayers.  It's a version of his television spot accusing McCain of using “smears” to avoid talking about the economy, but — unlike the TV spot — mentions Ayers by name and discusses him at some length:
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
McCain: If I Bring Up Ayers At Debate, It Will Be Obama's Fault  —  In an interview that John McCain gave to local radio in St. Louis, McCain says that he was “astonished” to hear Barack Obama say recently that he was reluctant to bring up Ayers to Obama's face, and promises that he'll raise the subject at tomorrow's debate.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Republicans Who Fund Bill Ayers  —  I think Obama's relatively weak but nonetheless real interactions with William Ayers are a legitimate campaign issue.  But Obama's best response, after telling the facts of the relationship, is to point out who else supported him.
Discussion: Cafe Talk Aggregator and marbury
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
McCain and the Raging Right
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.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Error Rates  —  I find that an awful lot of problems are caused …
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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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 …
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Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Happy October...Surprise!
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DEMANDING A DOUBLE STANDARD.... The Washington Post's Dan Balz had an online item yesterday that was so odd, I read it a couple of times, just to make sure I wasn't misinterpreting his point.  —  As Balz sees is, John McCain is very likely to lose on Nov. 4, so “the real focus now ought to be on Barack Obama.”
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Angling for a Cocktail Party Invitation
Discussion: Julian Sanchez and Eschaton
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.
New York Post:
THE O JESSE KNOWS  —  JACKSON ON OBAMA'S AMERICA  —  EVIAN, FRANCE  —  PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week.  —  He promised “fundamental changes” …
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: Don Surber and Polimom Says
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.
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, MyDD and Economix
Real Debate Wisconsin:
Racine schools hand out textbook with 15 page Obama love-fest...  This comes from the mother of a Racine Unified School District 8th grader.  She has asked to keep her name out of this but frankly I can't add much to what she has said here but I do have one question.
The Huffington Post:
Bush Strategist: McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick  —  Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.
Associated Press:
Hillary Clinton says a second 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.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
‘Fraud’ vs. ‘Suppression’  —  The campaigns are sparring today over voter fraud and voter suppression, with the McCain camp demanding that David Plouffe respond to a letter proposing cooperation against “voter fraud” and the Obama campaign saying he already wrote back (after the jump) in a letter that raises fears about “suppression.”
Scranton Times-Tribune:
Complete coverage: Scranton welcomes Palin  —  STAFF REPORT  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is making her first Scranton appearence today at Riverfront Sports Complex.  She has taken the stage and was joined by her husband Todd and country singer Lee Greenwood.
Maxim Lott / Fox News:
First Time FBI Calls Case an ‘Honor Killing’  —  Almost a year after two teenage girls were found dead — allegedly executed by their father — in the back seat of a taxicab in Texas, the FBI is saying for the first time that the case may have been an “honor killing.”
Bloomberg:
Icelanders Sink Under Foreign-Currency Loans as Krona Plunges  —  Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Karl Karlsson, a Reykjavik taxi driver, has canceled his winter vacation.  The money he saved is being eaten up by his car loan payment, which has jumped more than 20 percent since June.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Monty Python Could Have Written This”
Mark J. Konkol / Chicago Sun Times:
Early voting gets off to a record start
Discussion: TalkLeft
Paul West / The Swamp:
McCain's brother: Let McCain be McCain
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Report Says Acclaimed Czech Writer Informed on a Supposed Spy
Discussion: Reason, Brian Beutler and Gawker
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Race Steady With Obama Leading by 9
Discussion: MyDD and TPM Election Central
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
TV Newsers Who Fawned Over Foley Sex Scandal Ignore Mahoney
Marc Ambinder:
Warmonger and Palin-Mocker v. Terrorist
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Senate Projections, 10/14  —  The Democrats appear to have nearly …
Discussion: Left in the West
Greg Bluestein / Associated Press:
High court turns down Ga. death row inmate
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and TalkLeft
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Sarah Palin heads for Indiana Friday; not a good sign for GOP
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Worst Case Scenario
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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