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1:35 PM ET, October 28, 2008

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Pew Research Center:
McCain Support Continues Downward Spiral  —  Obama Leads by 19 Among Those Who Have Already Voted  —  Barack Obama leads John McCain by a 52% to 36% margin in Pew's latest nationwide survey of 1,325 registered voters.  This is the fourth consecutive survey that has found support for the Republican candidate edging down.
Tami Luhby / CNNMoney.com:
Election: Your health insurance at stake  —  McCain and Obama have vastly different views on the future of employer-sponsored health insurance.  Either one could bring big change.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Both presidential candidates want to turn employer-sponsored health insurance on its head.
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CAMPAIGNS SAY SILLY THINGS ABOUT HEALTH CARE.  —  First up, Doug Holtz-Eakin explaining why his candidate's health care plan won't lead to an exodus of young folks from the system: … Oops.  This is what we call a Kinsleyan gaffe: He shouldn't have said it because it's oh-so-true.
Discussion: www.redstate.com and Kevin Drum
Jason Rosenbaum / The Huffington Post:
McCain Campaign: Our Health Plan Doesn't Work  —  Another admission from the McCain campaign that their health care plan is nothing more than a bunch of right-wing platitudes thrown together without any real serious thought as to how to solve the health care crisis.  From CNN: … Got that?
Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Sources: Sarkozy views Obama stance on Iran as ‘utterly immature’  —  French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's positions on Iran, according to reports that have reached Israel's government.  —  Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Sarkozy: Obama an empty suit on foreign policy
Discussion: www.redstate.com
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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Michelle Malkin:
Obama cultists cry wolf: “N-word” yelled at Palin rally! Not.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Is Sarah Palin preparing for 2012?
Mike Allen / The Politico:
7 days — One week out — Republicans expect to be crushed in historic landslide: buy emergency time in Montana and West Virginia  —  GM seeks Treasury $$$ ... GOP blame game now reaches down to state parties - Al Hunt is in Obama's gym pool at this moment — Michelle Obama shops J. Crew online …
The Politico:
Why McCain is getting hosed in the press  —  Politico political editor Charles Mahtesian was e-mailing the other day with a Republican lobbyist who signed off with a plea that sounded more like a taunt: “Keep it balanced.”  —  A reader e-mailed us with the same sentiment in different language.
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.
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.
Discussion: Achenblog
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Danielle Crittenden / The Huffington Post:   T'Aint “Elitist” to Be Anti-Palin
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Social conservatives fight for control of Republican Party  —  The right flank is positioning to change the GOP's leadership and direction — even if John McCain wins the presidency.  Some moderates fear such a shift would alienate more voters.  —  Reporting from Washington …
Discussion: Kevin Drum and Bark Bark Woof Woof
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE GOP'S FACTIONAL WARFARE.... Time will tell the extent …
Discussion: Eschaton
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
McCain was frank, garrulous and accessible — and then he wasn't  —  John McCain talks to the media, including Los Angeles Times reporter Maeve Reston, right foreground with tape recorder, at a rally in Ohio in February.  Early on, McCain artfully created a sense of intimacy with the reporters who traveled with him.
Discussion: The Heretik and Wonkette
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:   TIRE SWINGING: A LOVE STORY
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Watch as the press corps battles its performance anxiety!  —  With the election just a week away and Barack Obama pulling away from John McCain, tiny tendrils of trepidation are starting to drift over the liberal members of the commentariat and the political press corps.
Paul Bond / Reuters:
Hollywood insiders rip MSNBC, defend Palin  —  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Palin's Love Boats  —  Until two cruise ships steamed up to Alaska two summers ago, the record for the silliest statement by a journalist had been held by Lincoln Steffens, in his time a famous American radical.  Sent in 1919 to see how Russia was doing under the communists …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
McCain says Stevens should step down  —  GOP presidential candidate John McCain, already fighting a political environment hostile to Republicans, said Tuesday morning that Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) should resign from the Senate.  —  Stevens was convicted on seven felony counts of failing to disclose gifts …
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Byron York / The Corner:
Obama's Moving Tax Threshold: $250,000?  $200,000?  $150,000?  What Next?  —  One of the things I've seen at Republican rallies is that people just don't believe Barack Obama when he says he'll raise taxes only on those who make more than $250,000 a year.
Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
Legal War Rooms Prep for Election Battle  —  Political Aides Passing the Baton to Legal Teams Which Will Handle Election Issues  —  With the election merely days away, exhausted political aides are rounding their last laps and preparing to pass the baton to a fresher, less sleep-deprived team: the lawyers.
Christopher Edley Jr / Washington Post:
A Voting Rights Disaster?  —  Suppose in your neighborhood there are 600 registered voters per machine, while across town there are only 120 per machine.  (That's a 5 to 1 disparity, which is what exists in some places in Virginia today.)  On Election Day, your line wraps around the block …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and ACSBlog
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Reid eyes Byrd ouster  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is quietly preparing to ease 90-year-old Sen. Robert C. Byrd from his perch as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Democratic insiders tell Politico.  —  Reid has not yet discussed his plans with Byrd.
Discussion: Don Surber and Campaign Silo
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why McCain Lost Me  —  Yesterday, while reading the latest polling data on John McCain, Sarah Palin and their appeal — or growing lack of it — to “ independent women voters” it suddenly dawned on me: I am one of these elusive independent female voters, and I have the credentials to prove it.
 
 
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Mike Glover / Associated Press:
McCain says pundits being fooled, promises victory
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Ohio man accused of shooting teen over McCain sign
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Jonathan Stein / MoJoBlog:
What's Missing from GOP.com?
Discussion: Campaign Silo
Steve Bousquet / St. Petersburg Times:
12,165 now on Florida's ‘no match’ vote list
Discussion: Facing South and MSNBC
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Sort of Soviet?  —  Et tu, MSNBC?  —  Willie Geist …
Discussion: Hot Air
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Obama gets a different kind of chilly reception
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Max Cleland / The Huffington Post:
Georgia On My Mind  —  Six years ago this week, I was campaigning …
Discussion: Seeing the Forest
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
What Would ‘Tightening’ Look Like?  —  There is a lot of discussion …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Swampland
Martin Markovits / The Huffington Post:
Tipping the Scales — Up to 10,000 Registrations Deemed Incomplete in Colorado
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Journalists Name 44th President
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Parsing the (Tracking) Poll: Are We A Center-Right Country?
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
Election 2008: Objective journalism the loser
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