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1:20 PM ET, October 20, 2008

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Kate Barrett / Political Radar:
Biden to Supporters: “Gird Your Loins”, For the Next President “It's Like Cleaning Augean Stables”  —  ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Safety in Numbers?  Poll-Driven Press Goes Out on a Limb  —  The network maps are bathed in blue, the pundits contemplating a landslide, the conservative columnists preparing for the indignities of an Obama administration.  —  With the numbers breaking Barack Obama's way …
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Miller Gets Fox News Slot, Holds No Grudges About ‘NYT’ Exit  —  NEW YORK Three years after her difficult departure from The New York Times, Judith Miller says she still misses some of the people she worked with and the “excitement of the newsroom.”  She also says the Times remains “indispensable.”
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Obama-Ayers “Fact Check”
The Moderate Voice:
The Excrescence Of Right-Wing GOP Hate  —  The racist and xenophobic bile that has flowed from the right-wing Republican base and spokesmouths like Rush Limbaugh has been unprecedented in this campaign season, and it was easy to predict that the moment Colin Powell endorsed Barack …
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William Kristol / New York Times:
Here the People Rule  —  According to the silver-penned Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal over the weekend, “In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics.”  —  Leave aside Noonan's negative judgment on Sarah Palin's candidacy, a judgment I don't share.
Mwilliams / Mark Williams:
EXCLUSIVE: .22 Gunshot, paint balls fired at McCain / Palin Straight Talk Express  —  (Sunday, October 19 - Filed by Mark Williams in Raton, New Mexico with the Stop Obama Tour) We learned at this morning's Stop Obama Rally here that the McCain/Palin Straight Talk Express came through town yesterday.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Blair Levin / New York Times:
What Bradley Effect?  —  WITH only two weeks to go before the election, talk has turned to the Bradley effect.  The phenomenon is named for Tom Bradley, the African-American mayor of Los Angeles, who lost the 1982 California governor's race even though exit polls predicted he'd defeat his Republican opponent, George Deukmejian.
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Karen Tumulty / Swampland:
The Bradley Effect Reconsidered
Washington Post:
Is Capitalism Dead?  —  IS THIS the end of American capitalism?  As financial panic spread across the globe and governments scrambled to contain the damage, reality seemed to announce the doom of U.S.-style free markets and President Bush's ideology.  But this is wrong in two ways.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Bachmann Lies, Denies She Ever Called Barack Obama's Views ‘Anti-American’  —  After right-wing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared on MSNBC's Hardball on Friday and called for a McCarthyite investigation into the “anti-American views” of members of Congress, she has come under a withering storm of criticism.
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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Becomes Increasingly Accessible To The National Media  —  From CBS News' Scott Conroy:  —  (COLORADO SPRINGS) It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane …
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Jon Stewart to Sarah Palin: ‘[Expletive] You.’  —  Speaking to a college audience in Boston, Mass. Friday, “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart used his stand-up routine to respond to Sarah Palin's comments about “pro-America” parts of the country, shedding the profanity restrictions that govern his Comedy Central show.
Byron York / National Review:
John McCain and an Army of Joes  —  Woodbridge, Va. — Tito Munoz was ready to rock when John McCain showed here up at the Connaughton Community Plaza in Woodbridge, Virginia Saturday afternoon.  Dressed in a yellow hard hat covered with McCain-Palin stickers, wearing an orange high-visibility vest …
Wall Street Journal:
How to Read the Constitution  —  The following is an excerpt from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute last Thursday:  —  When John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country …
Discussion: Althouse
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Carbon Ultimatum  —  The coming offer you won't be able to refuse.  —  Liberals pretend that only President Bush is preventing the U.S. from adopting some global warming “solution.”  But occasionally their mask slips.  As Barack Obama's energy adviser has now made clear …
Jeffrey Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Pollution Credits Let Dumps Double Dip  —  Landfills Find New Revenue in Trading System Meant to Curb Greenhouse Emissions  —  CAPE MAY COUNTY, N.J. — America's garbage dumps are reaping a windfall from the fight against global warming.  But their payday might not be doing much to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Real Plumbers of Ohio  —  Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery.  By exploiting America's divisions — divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions — he was able to reinvent the Republican brand.
Discussion: Corrente and DownWithTyranny!
Kenneth R. Timmerman / NewsMax.com:
Obama's Secret Campaign Cash: Has $63 Million Flowed from Foreign Sources?  —  As Barack Obama reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September, bringing his total to more than $600 million, new questions have arisen about the source of his amazing funding.
Jim Butler / theeagle.com:
Barack Obama is the better choice for our president  —  In the past 50 years, The Eagle has never recommended a Democrat for president.  We made no recommendations in 1960 and 1964 — when Texas' own Lyndon B. Johnson was on the Democratic ticket — nor did we in 1968 …
Los Angeles Times:
McCain's old voter-fraud saw  —  His attack on ACORN undercuts real efforts to improve the system.  —  John McCain committed a malicious misrepresentation in the last presidential debate when he claimed that ACORN, the liberal activist group, “is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Mark Schmitt / American Prospect:
Populism Without Pitchforks  —  Obama's inclusive, quiet tone has given liberals a new language of ethics.  —  All Democratic presidential campaigns, whether desperate or confident, in good times or bad, turn populist at the end.  Barack Obama's is a little different.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
 
 
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USA Today:
GM-Chrysler push for quick deal
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: TWO WEEKS OUT  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray …
Ali / Think Progress:
McCain Lies Again, Repeats False Claim He 'Received The Highest Honor …
Discussion: VetVoice
Africanpress / African Press International:
Important Update: US Law firm enters into agreement to represent API …
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Cross-examination of Stevens begins again
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
Frank James / The Swamp:
Bernanke backs new fiscal stimulus
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Gore to host live webcast for Obama camp tonight
Discussion: TIME.com
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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Wallow in the Mire  —  Re Joe the Plumber, if I hear another …
Jeffrey Ressner / The Politico:
Palin-Fey meeting nabs best ‘SNL’ ratings in 14 years
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
McCain has $47 million to spend in October
Discussion: Bloomberg and TIME.com
Michelle Malkin:
What happened when they “spread the wealth” in Zimbabwe
Discussion: Hot Air and The Other McCain
Howard Wolfson / The New Republic:
The End of Nixonland  —  Rick Perlstein's Nixonland brilliantly covers …
Discussion: Newsweek and Newsweek Blogs
The New / The Caucus:
Early Voting, a Rundown
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
Turning Indiana blue
 

 
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