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8:50 AM ET, October 28, 2008

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Manu Raju / The Hill:
Sen. Ted Stevens guilty of felony charges  —  Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican in history and patriarch of Alaska politics, was found guilty of all seven felony charges for making false statements.  —  The verdict could spell the end of a 40-year Senate career for a man …
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The Directors / www.redstate.com:
Don't Vote For Ted Stevens For Senate or Don Young for House At Large in Alaska  —  Party Loyalty Has Its Limits … We stand at a perilous moment in American politics, with thereal possibility that the Democrats could get to 60 votes in the Senate.  This is no time for litmus tests of party loyalty, for abandoning our own.
Steven G. Calabresi / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's ‘Redistribution’ Constitution  —  The courts are poised for a takeover by the judicial left.  —  One of the great unappreciated stories of the past eight years is how thoroughly Senate Democrats thwarted efforts by President Bush to appoint judges to the lower federal courts.
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Michael Dobbs / Washington Post:
OBAMA'S REDISTRIBUTION ‘BOMBSHELL’  —  DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN. … WITH JUST OVER A WEEK TO GO UNTIL THE ELECTION, THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN IS STEPPING UP ITS EFFORTS TO PORTRAY BARACK OBAMA AS A CLOSET “SOCIALIST” BENT ON IMPLEMENTING A MAJOR REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN AMERICAN SOCIETY.
George Stephanopoulos / ABCNEWS:
Rift Cracks ‘Demoralized’ McCain Campaign  —  McCain Staffers Blame Palin's Lack of Readiness; Palin Loyalists Blame Over-Managing By McCain Handlers  —  The McCain campaign is definitely demoralized right now.  The blame game has begun.  —  There is no question that there is a rift …
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
A Right-Of-Center Blogger Poll On The Election  —  Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer questions about the election.  The following 76 blogs responded:  —  101 Dead Armadillos, The Absurd Report, David All Group, AtlanticBlog, Bad Example …
Elaine Lafferty / The Daily Beast:
Sarah Palin's a Brainiac  —  Exclusive: Former Ms. Magazine Editor-in-Chief: Palin's a Brainiac  —  The former editor in chief of Ms. magazine (and a Democrat) on what she learned on a campaign plane with the would-be VP.  —  It's difficult not to froth when one reads …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Barnes vs. Wallace
Discussion: Salon and Oliver Willis
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Farewell, Dean  —  My friend and colleague Dean Barnett died today, and the world is a much poorer place for it.  As anyone who listened to him on my radio show or read his work at Soxblog, here or at the Weekly Standard knows, and as everyone who had the great, great pleasure of knowing Dean will attest …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Dean Barnett, 1967-2008  —  It's my sad duty to report that our good friend and valued contributor Dean Barnett passed away today.  He was a remarkable man—principled, witty, and to all of us, a model of grace and courage.  We mourn his passing and cherish his memory.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Horrendous: Dean Barnett passes away
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama  —  Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Megyn Kelly, Obama spokesman go nuclear over Fox News and the redistribution tape  —  Time for the daily combative Kelly interview, featuring muppet-ish Obama spokestool Bill Burton in his recurring role.  The beauty of this clip is how it ties the day's two stories together in a bow.
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Oliver Willis:
Megyn Kelly Of Fox Loses It When Obama Campaign Calls Them On Bias
Discussion: RADAMISTO and ATTACKERMAN
Little Green Footballs:
Obama Compared America to Nazi Germany  —  The audio recording of Barack Obama espousing his socialist philosophy of “redistribution of wealth” is all over the Internet and Fox News today (although most other media outlets are ignoring it), but there's another disturbing section on that tape that has so far escaped notice.
Sean Quinn / FiveThirtyEight.com:
The Three Ashleys  —  In 2004, Ashley Faulkner looked into the camera and said of George W. Bush, “He's the most powerful man in the world, and all he wants to do is make sure I'm safe, that I'm OK.”  —  It was powerful.  It was an emotional, affirmative argument to vote for George W. Bush.
Reid Wilson / AZCT:
GOP concerned as polls show tight race in Arizona  —  A rash of new polls in Arizona shows a tightening presidential race, a situation that has even some Republican strategists seriously fretting the possibility that John McCain could lose his home state.  —  Polls taken for both parties …
National Review:
Rush's Blueprint  —  Last week, Tony Blankley published and Rush Limbaugh publicized what may prove one of the most important articles of 2008.  I don't mean that the article was good - very much the contrary.  But bad work can be even more important than good, if enough people can be got to believe it.
Julian Walker / Virginian-Pilot:
Phony flier says Virginians vote on different days  —  A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state election officials.  —  In fact, Election Day for voters of all political stripes remains Nov. 4.
John / Power Line:
DRINK DIET COKE!  —  Advertising Age reports that Pepsi-Cola is launching a new logo as part of a world-wide branding campaign.  Pepsico's Indra Nooyi, whom we wrote about here and elsewhere, and other top Pepsico executives explained the new look: … Here's the new Pepsi logo:
Discussion: AdAge and Alas, a blog
 
 
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Palin's Love Boats
The American Conservative:
The Right Choice? PDF
Discussion: Reason
Catrin Einhorn / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Rules Limiting Sex Offenders on Halloween
Discussion: TalkLeft
Jules Crittenden:
AndrogyNazi  —  Hey, is it just me or does that neo-Nazi …
John / Power Line:
BARACK OBAMA, REDISTRIBUTOR
Discussion: American Power
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
No pick in Third; Tinklenberg in Sixth
 Earlier Items: 
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Ensign: McCain makes Senate races more difficult
Sarah Talalay / Sun-Sentinel:
Wayne Huizenga wants to sell Dolphins before Barack Obama raises tax
Discussion: Don Surber
Borys Krawczeniuk / Scranton Times-Tribune:
Carbondale tilting toward Obama
Rasmussen Reports:
FOX/Rasmussen Swing State Polling - October 26, 2008
Marc Ambinder:
RNC Goes Up In Montana
Discussion: Left in the West
Jeffrey Goldberg:
The Jewish Extremists Behind “Obsession”
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for knowledge and learning.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Commentary
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Elise Morton / Associated Press:
Russia arrests two journalists, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, on “extremism” charges for allegedly working for a group founded by the late Alexei Navalny

 
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