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9:00 AM ET, October 15, 2008

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New York Times:
Poll Says McCain Hurts His Bid by Using Attacks  —  The McCain campaign's recent angry tone and sharply personal attacks on Senator Barack Obama appear to have backfired and tarnished Senator John McCain more than their intended target, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll has found.
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CBS News:
Poll: Obama Opens 14-Point Lead On McCain  —  CBS News/New York Times Survey Shows Major Swing Among Independents, Suggests McCain's Strategy May Be Hurting Him  —  (CBS) Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Rush Limbaugh Says Angry Blacks Are In 30 Year Plot To Train Black Children as Militants  —  As we are witnessing, the conservative movement is in shambles now and the only thing they can do is spew racist hatred out into the world and hope it sticks to their audience in droves.
Spectator:
Pinch Yourself  —  The contrast between, on the one hand, the huge amount of material about Obama's radical associations that has been published in on-line journals and in a few brave newspapers, and on the other the refusal by big media to address it and to vilify those who do, becomes more astounding by the day.
Discussion: Sadly, No! and YID With LID
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Michael Luo / The Caucus:
Clinton Supporters Aid Palin  —  Gov. Sarah Palin met with a group of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's former supporters Tuesday evening at a special fund-raising reception organized for them on behalf of the Republican ticket.  —  The reception, which organizers said brought in more than $500,000 …
Discussion: Don Surber and Political Machine
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
An Unwitting Assist From the Hockey Mom  —  PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13 The Hillary voter has come home.  —  It wasn't primarily the work of Hillary Clinton, though by her count she has made more than 50 public appearances for Barack Obama.  Nor was it the work of Obama, who has kept Clinton and her advisers at arm's length.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Who's in control of McCain's campaign?
Norma Greenaway / National Post:
Conservatives win a second, stronger minority; ‘Our support base is stronger,’ Harper says  —  As of 1:55 a.m. ET, the Conservative party was leading or elected in 143 seats  —  Conservatives 143; Liberals 77; Bloc 49; NDP 37; Ind 2; Green 0  —  OTTAWA — Stephen Harper's Conservatives returned …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and Hot Air
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Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction:
Canada Votes 2008  —  UPDATED BELOW.  —  For reasons related …
Campbell Clark / Globe and Mail:
Harper heads for stronger minority
Darke Blog:
BREAKING: 6th Circuit reverses on TRO (devastation, humiliation for Jennifer Brunner)  —  A 3-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a temporary restraining order which would effectively make Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner follow the law - and do her job - in preventing election fraud.
Discussion: Hot Air and www.redstate.com
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:   Federal court: Ohio must check voter registrations
Cincinnati.com:   Court casts doubt on Ohio voter rolls
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos  —  The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials …
Discussion: Guardian, Balkinization and Hullabaloo
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
National Review Boots Buckley Son For Obama Boost  —  Christopher Buckley knew he was venturing into treacherous territory when he endorsed Barack Obama: “It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive.  They'd cut off my allowance,” he wrote.  —  The penalty turned out to be more severe.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 10/14  —  Perhaps the CBS poll that shows Barack Obama with a 14-point lead among likely voters (12 points when third-party candidates are included) is a modest outlier.  But if so, John McCain has more and more outliers that he has to explain away these days.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
CBS/NYT Poll Preempt
Africanpress / African Press International:
Shocking development: Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic; she asks”, on a direct telephone to API.  —  Accusing API of colluding with American internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband …
Discussion: HillBuzz, Gateway Pundit and td blog
John Berman / ABCNEWS:
Will the Bradley Effect Be Obama's Downfall?  —  Worries Rise That Questions of Race Overstate Obama's 10-Point Lead  —  With the economic crisis center stage, Barack Obama has solidified his lead, pulling ahead of John McCain by 10 points among likely voters, 53-43 percent, in a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Discussion: The Corner and The Other McCain
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Paul West / Baltimore Sun:
McCain's brother blasts campaign strategy  —  In e-mail statement, he calls on top aides to “Let John McCain be John McCain”  —  WASHINGTON - Frustrations inside John McCain's camp boiled over on the eve of Wednesday night's presidential debate as the candidate's brother unleashed …
Michelle Malkin:
Voter fraud alert: Houseful of out-of-state Obama activists registered as Ohio voters, received absentee ballots
Discussion: The Other McCain
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ambushed By History  —  For all their talk about respecting the constraints of reality, conservatives generally hold to the “great man” theory of history.  It is leftists who embrace economic determinism.  Conservatives read biographies of Winston Churchill and wait in constant expectation for the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Obama drowning out McCain in TV ads  —  In the first three weeks of September, Barack Obama ran 1,342 television commercials in the Washington media market that reaches heavily populated and contested Northern Virginia.  —  According to The Nielsen Company, in the same period and market …
Techdirt:
McCain Campaign Sends Letter To YouTube Defending Fair Use  —  from the what-the...?  dept  —  This is impressive, and somewhat unexpected.  It's rather rare to see politicians (other than maginal ones, at least) showing any sort of recognition of fair use.
 
 
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Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
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iowahawk:
A Vote For Obama is a Vote For Civility
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Hot Air
Michael Shedlock / Mish's Global Economic …:
Essence of the “Rescue” Plan
Discussion: Portfolio and Buck Naked Politics
Robert George / thepublicdiscourse.com:
Obama's Abortion Extremism
Discussion: The Corner and www.redstate.com
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
In Support of Bill Ayers
Discussion: Pajamas Media and pw
Ian Welsh / Firedoglake:
Obamanomics  —  Is Obama the New FDR?  —  At this point it's clear …
Discussion: BeyondChron and Hullabaloo
 Earlier Items: 
Matt / Think Progress:
McCain Tries To Blame Financial Crisis On Democratic Takeover Of Congress In 2007
Tommy McCall / New York Times:
Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
The Georgia surge continues
Discussion: MyDD
The Huffington Post:
McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort