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10:50 AM ET, October 25, 2008

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Washington Post:
New Poll Finds Stark Reversal on Perceptions of Palin  —  While top-of-the-ticket rivals John McCain and Barack Obama both remain broadly popular heading into their Election Day showdown, public perceptions of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin have fallen dramatically since …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Jim Salter / Associated Press:
Goalie injured after tripping on Palin carpet  —  ST. LOUIS (AP)—Blues goalie Manny Legace left after one period Friday night with a hip injury that occurred when he slipped on the carpet placed on the ice for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
McCain Versus the Juggernaut  —  We stand with him.  —  It's always darkest before it goes totally black.  This is one of John McCain's favorite remarks, ascribed (apocryphally, it seems) to Chairman Mao.  Well, with 10 days to go before the election, it's getting pretty dark out there.
Discussion: Commentary and Oliver Willis
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Randy Ludlow / The Columbus Dispatch:
Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber  —  Investigators trying to determine whether access was illegal  —  “State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
THE WOLF ON OBAMA'S MISTRESS  —  I speak with Blackfive's own Wolf, who earns his Pulp Fiction moniker with more on Vera Baker, the mistress Michelle Obama exiled to Martinique.  We will have pictures and more info on Monday, also it looks like one of the major news outlets is going to move on the story.
Ben / Think Progress:
Memo To Palin: Fruit Fly Research Has Led To Advances In Understanding Autism  —  This morning, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) gave her first policy speech urging the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), “a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.”
Discussion: John McCain 2008 and Wonk Room
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PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
Sarah Palin: Ignorant and anti-science
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
So When Will Banks Give Loans?  —  “Chase recently received $25 billion in federal funding.  What effect will that have on the business side and will it change our strategic lending policy?”  —  It was Oct. 17, just four days after JPMorgan Chase's chief executive, Jamie Dimon …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of “Carved B” Story Before Facts Were Known  —  John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts …
Michael S. Malone / Pajamas Media:
Editing Their Way to Oblivion: Journalism Sacrificed For Power and Pensions  —  The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous game.  With its readers, with the Constitution, and with its own fate.  —  The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Palin allies report rising campaign tension  —  Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics.  —  Four Republicans close to Palin …
Discussion: TIME.com and The Plank
Patricia Leigh Brown / New York Times:
As Yard Sales Boom, Sentiment Is First Thing to Go  —  MANTECA, Calif. — As the classified ads put it, everything must go.  Socks.  Christmas ornaments.  Microwave ovens.  Three-year-old Marita Duarte's tricycle was sold by her mother, Beatriz, to a stranger for $3 even as her daughter was riding it.
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
The Obama/Ayers/Khalidi Connection  —  I just caught up with an interview by one of my favorite guys, Hugh Hewitt, of another of my favorite guys, Stanley Kurtz.  (It's on Hugh's Townhall blog, which always has plenty of required reading.)  —  Stanley, of course, has done singularly vital investigative work …
Discussion: Fight the Smears and Jihad Watch
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Faiz / Think Progress:
McCain's brother drops out of campaign, apologizes for 911 call.»  —  Joe McCain, the brother of John McCain, “said Friday he'll withdraw from campaign activities after calling 911 to complain about traffic.”  McCain called 911 in Alexandria, VA, and “used an expletive to the operator and hung up.”
Discussion: Associated Press and The Dish Rag
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Early-voting trends appear to favor Barack Obama  —  Voters who weigh in before election day usually lean Republican.  This time, Democrats dominate in several key states, and some GOP areas see more black voters than usual.  —  Reporting from Washington — Record numbers of voters across …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Administration to Bypass Reporting Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security.  —  The August 2007 law requires the agency's chief privacy officer …
Discussion: The Heretik
Kevin Burke / National Review:
The Palin Trig-ger  —  Some of the very personal and often uncharitable criticism of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her family may have a relationship to the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion of an unborn child.
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
The Obama Department of Peace & Non-Violence  —  Kathryn & Jay, At least we know what will become of that 25 percent of the Defense budget Barney Frank want to slash from the protection of Americans.  —  The DC Examiner reminds us that already proposed in the House (HR 808) is the creation of a new …
New York Times:
Some Hedge Funds Argue Against Proposals to Modify Mortgages  —  Washington is pushing measures to help hard-pressed homeowners, but some Wall Street investors are pushing back.  —  Hedge funds are fighting proposals to ease the terms of home mortgages, arguing that such a move would hurt their investments.
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs and Freakonomics
 
 
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Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Palintology will dominate the post-mortems
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Joe Dwinell / Boston Herald:
Kerry defends ‘Depends’ crack
Juan Forero / Washington Post:
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
While McCain Looked Away, Florida Shifted
Discussion: The Buzz
Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
A Note on the Polls  —  I've received several emails from people asking about the polls.
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Kathleen Parker / National Review:
Tragic Flaw  —  My husband called it first.  Then, a brilliant …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
VP candidate kept from media and no crowd questions. …
Discussion: USS Neverdock and protein wisdom
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Polls: White support for Obama at historic level
Discussion: unbossed.com
Richard Lewis / The Huffington Post:
And Larry David Thinks He's Frightened?
Discussion: Preemptive Karma
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Poll: Obama up in Ohio, tied in Florida
Discussion: The New Republic
Richard Rahn / Washington Times:
You lose, Soros wins
Discussion: Townhall.com