| 10/10/2008: | White House Memo: In Final Months in Office, Bush Is Burdened but Still Confident. Just as President Bush is convinced he did the right thing in Iraq, he is convinced he is doing the right thing on the economy. NYT. | #24 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Dear Old Golden Dog Days. During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: "We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious." Gail Collins. | |
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| 10/10/2008: | Op-Ed Columnist: The Mask Slips. The G.O.P. has done a great job masking the terrible consequences of much that it has stood for over the decades. Now the mask has slipped. As we survey the wreckage of the American economy and the real-life suffering associated with the financial crackup of 2008, it would be well for voters to draw upon the lessons of history and think more seriously about the consequences of the ballots they may cast in the future. Bob Herbert. | #18 |
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| 10/10/2008: | InsiderAdvantage: Obama Leads in Ohio. A new InsiderAdvantage poll in Georgia finds Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain, 49% to 44%. Political Wire. | #23 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Poll: Obama Opens Double-Digit Lead. With four weeks left in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama now leads John McCain by double digits, 52 percent to 41 percent among registered voters'a marked shift from the last Newsweek poll, conducted one month ago, when the two candidates were tied at 46 percent. Newsweek. | #12 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Today's Polls, 10/10. With 25 days to go until the election, Barack Obama is presently at his all-time highs in four of the six national tracking polls (Research 2000, Battleground, Hotline and Zogby) and is just one point off his high in Gallup. He has emerged with clear leads in both Florida and Ohio, where there are several polls out today. He is blowing McCain out in most polls of Pennsylvania and Michigan, and is making states like West Virgina and Georgia competitive. FiveThirtyEight. | #13 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Troopergate report released. After hours of deliberations, Alaska's legislative council voted unanimously to release the report of the investigation into Sarah Palin's firing of the state's public safety commissioner. Salon. | #20 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Panel: Palin 'unlawfully abused' authority. The panel of legislators investigating the "Troopergate" controversy in Palin's home state has concluded that the Alaska governor "unlawfully abused her authority" in the firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, per the AP. More: "The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor." MSNBC. | #17 |
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| 10/10/2008: | McCain Sticks Up For Obama At Rally. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States." CBS. | #16 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States." MPR. | #22 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Palin report to be released. Alaska state's Legislative Council just voted 12-0 to release most of an investigator's report into the July firing of state public safety commissioner Walt Monegan by Gov. Sarah Palin -- now the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee. USA Today. | #25 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Underground Whispering Campaign Could Undermine McCain. An e-mail circulating online that looks like a revealing personal account of a vacation taken with John McCain could undermine his image of an upright character since a lot of people appear to believe unverified information forwarded to them by their friends. Wired. | #5 |
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| 10/10/2008: | McCain booed after trying to calm anti-Obama crowd. The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is acting to tamp it down. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States." AP. | #15 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Paulson: U.S. will buy stock, too. Plan would no longer simply buy up troubled mortgage assets. Politico. | |
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| 10/10/2008: | McCain to Rally: Be Respectful. This afternoon in Minnesota, John McCain thanked the faithful for their enthusiasm and said that he would fight hard to win the presidency, but also asked his followers to be respectful of Senator Obama. Time. | |
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| 10/10/2008: | McCain Memo Attacks Obama on ACORN. A newly released memo from the McCain campaign strafes Obama for his connections to ACORN, the community organizing group that is under investigation in various locations around the country for incidents of alleged vote fraud. Time. | |
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| 10/10/2008: | As McCain Goes Negative, a GOP Senator Makes a Positive Turn. Falling behind in a sheaf of polls amid one of the nastiest campaigns in the country, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) announced today that he will unilaterally disarm: He will pull his negative advertising and urge his supporters to do the same. Washington Post. | #10 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Former governor Milliken backs away from McCain. "I saw what Bush and Cheney did. They came in with a (budget) surplus and a stable world, and look what's happened now. In eight short years they've taken one peaceful and prosperous world, and they've torn it into tatters." Grand Rapids Ne. | #6 |
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| 10/10/2008: | What happens when Obama is elected? It will be even worse than it was in the Clinton years. For sure there will be crazy accusations, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see some violence. Paul Krugman. | #1 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Gallup Daily: Obama 51%, McCain 41% Barack Obama has a 51% to 41% lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report involving interviewing conducted Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. Gallup. | #14 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Berlusconi Says Leaders May Close World's Markets. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said political leaders are discussing the idea of closing the world's financial markets while they "rewrite the rules of international finance." Bloomberg. | #8 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Better to Be... We are on the edge of some real serious craziness here and it would be nice if McCain did the right thing and told his more bloodthirsty supporters to go home and take a cold shower. Joe Klein. | #3 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Hate Fear and Ignorance. When a mainstream, Republican presidential advisor goes on national television and expresses concern that Republican voters might literally become violent in response to the Republican presidential ticket's rhetoric, it's safe to say we've reached a rather dramatic point. Washington Mont. | #4 |
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| 10/10/2008: | McCain Campaign Is at Odds Over Negative Attacks' Scope. Sen. John McCain has allowed a series of increasingly harsh broadsides in new campaign ads and in speeches by his wife, Cindy, and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin. But the Arizona Republican has rejected pleas from some advisers to launch attacks focusing on Sen. Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. WSJ. | #9 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Neglecting Indiana could cost McCain. Why hasn't McCain made at least a pity stop in the land of basketball and fried tenderloins? For months, polls have shown our red state looking purple. Still, despite talk from McCain's Indiana team, months have passed without the Arizona senator stopping here -- or doing much of anything here. Indianapolis St. | #19 |
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| 10/10/2008: | The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right. For God's sake, McCain, stop it. For once in this campaign, put your country first. Andrew Sullivan. | #2 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Victory Within Grasp, Obama Faces A New Choice. Both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton promised either tax cuts or no new taxes and ended up reneging on their commitments. Bush lost in 1992 and Clinton lost his Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate in 1994. Conversely, Ronald Reagan, who was explicit in promoting his conservative agenda during the 1980 campaign, took office with the legitimate claim that he had a mandate to seek tax and domestic spending cuts. HuffPost. | #7 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Hoover vs. Roosevelt? Hoover saw Roosevelt as "his weakest and most vulnerable" foe and "did not respect him as a political rival." McCain conveys unmistakably that he feels the same way about "that one" running against him. E. J. Dionne. | #11 |
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| 10/10/2008: | Stock markets plunge as pressure increases for a worldwide strategy to tackle the crisis. Wall Street was in full panic mode yesterday as a wave of fear washed over investors, who could not hit the sell button fast enough during the last hours of trading. It marked the seventh consecutive day of losses on Wall Street as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 679 points, or 7.3 percent, closing below 9,000 for the first time since 2003. This means all the gains from the last bull market have been effectively wiped out. The New York Times points ot it was the "busiest day in New York Stock Exchange history" and the Wall Street Journal notes that the 11th largest plunge in the history of the Dow "put the stock market either in, or nearly in, a crash." Slate. | #21 |
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| 10/9/2008: | Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in ethics probe. Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing. USA Today. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Sarah Palin's radical right-wing mentors. Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. "Her door was open," says Chryson -- and still is. Salon. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Moment of Truth. Why do we need international cooperation? Because we have a globalized financial system in which a crisis that began with a bubble in Florida condos and California McMansions has caused monetary catastrophe in Iceland. We're all in this together, and need a shared solution. Paul Krugman. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Financial Crisis: Who is going to bail out the euro? The US has guaranteed the $3.5 trillion money market funds. It has nationalised the $5.3 trillion pillars of the mortgage market, Fannie and Freddie. The Fed is accepting any junk as collateral at its lending window. This week it went the whole hog after panic hit the $1.6 trillion market for commercial paper. It is now offering loans without any security at all. The US government has become a bank. Yes, this is US socialism. What is the alternative? Telegraph. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Consequences of Cindy McCain's Drug Abuse Were More Complex Than She Has Portrayed. Her misuse of painkillers prompted an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors that put her in legal jeopardy. A doctor with McCain's medical charity who supplied her with prescriptions for the drugs lost his license and never practiced again. The charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, eventually had to be closed in the wake of the controversy. Her husband was forced to admit publicly that he was absent much of the time she was having problems and was not aware of them. Washington Post. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | In Dozens of Calls, Palins Pressed for Trooper's Removal. Ms. Palin has denied that anyone told Mr. Monegan to dismiss Mr. Wooten, or that the commissioner's ouster had anything to do with the trooper. But an examination of the case, based on interviews with Mr. Monegan and several top aides, indicates that, to a far greater degree than was previously known, the governor, her husband and her administration pressed the commissioner and his staff to get Mr. Wooten off the force, though without directly ordering it. NYT. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | McCain and his female Sancho Panza. Time was, the Baltimore Orioles' manager was Earl Weaver, a short, irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, as he frequently was, would shout at an umpire, "Are you going to get any better or is this it?" With, mercifully, only one debate to go, that is the question about John McCain's campaign. George Will. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | 'Rednecks for Obama' want to bridge yawning culture gap. Tony Viessman, 74, and Les Spencer, 60, got politically active last year when it occurred to them there must be other lower income, rural, beer-drinking, gun-loving, NASCAR race enthusiasts fed up with business as usual in Washington. AFP. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | McCain's absence vexes Nevada backers. Concern grew last week after McCain canceled a Nevada visit. A new Reno Gazette-Journal poll showed McCain trailing by 7 percentage points, with Democratic challenger Sen. Barack Obama competing in traditional Republican strongholds here. Las Vegas Sun. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Alaska: State with a long history of take and give. Alaska is awash in billions of surplus dollars from the current high oil prices and a tax hike on the oil industry, but it remains at the forefront of states feeding at the federal trough. AP. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | New polls show Obama in control. Barack Obama continues to hold significant leads over John McCain, a fresh round of state and national polls out Thursday suggest, in what is unwelcome news for the Republican presidential nominee as Election Day inches closer and closer. CNN. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Looking ahead: Report on Palin & commissioner's firing due Friday. A report from an investigator charged by the Alaska state legislature to look into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the state's public safety commissioner is due for release. USA Today. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Dow plunges more than 678 to fall below 9,000. Stocks plunged in the final hour of trading Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 675 points, or more than 7 percent, to its lowest level in five years after a major credit ratings agency said it was considering cutting its rating on General Motors Corp. AP. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Why You Don't Bluff. There's been some discussion about whether John McCain's announcement last week that he was pulling out of Michigan was some kind of stunt. Well, Rasmussen has the first polling out of the state since that announcement, and it gives Barack Obama a 16 point lead. This is a state that, as recently as a month ago, looked like it might be the most important swing state in the nation. FiveThirtyEight. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Gallup Daily: Obama 52%, McCain 41% The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report shows Barack Obama maintaining a 52% to 41% lead over John McCain, unchanged from Wednesday's report. Gallup. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | McCain Excites Crowds With Criticism of Obama. Senator John McCain devoted most of two campaign appearances on Wednesday to lusty attacks on Senator Barack Obama and gave less attention, and offered very few specifics, to the growing economic woes of American voters. NYT. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Obama, McCain Transition Efforts Are Worlds Apart. As the 2008 campaign nears its conclusion, the presidential transition efforts of the two major candidates have become a study in contrasts: Sen. Barack Obama has organized an elaborate well-staffed network to prepare for his possible ascension to the White House, while Sen. John McCain has all but put off such work until after the election. HuffPost. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Todd Palin campaigned years for firing trooper. Todd Palin talked with over a dozen state officials, many of them repeatedly, in his crusade to get a state trooper fired whom he considered to be a bad cop, a dishonest person and a threat to the Palin family, according to his sworn statement given Wednesday to a legislative investigator. ADN. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | Dem strategists see landslide in the making. Four large states McCain once seemed well-positioned to win -- Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida -- have in recent weeks shifted toward Obama. If Obama were to win those four states -- a scenario that would represent a remarkable turn of events -- he would likely surpass 350 electoral votes. Politico. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | 60 proof. Everyone is talking big gains for the Democrats in Congress now, even Republicans, who fear a massive Democratic wave is coming. Politico. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | U.S. May Take Ownership Stake in Banks. Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials. NYT. | |
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| 10/9/2008: | North Korea ready to fire more missiles: report. North Korea has deployed more than 10 missiles on its west coast for what appears to be an imminent launch, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday, two days after the North fired two short-range missiles into the Yellow Sea. Reuters. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | U.S. May Take Ownership Stake in Banks. The Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many U.S. banks to try to restore confidence, according to government officials. NYT. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | What To Look For Next. We have yet to see the Carnegies, McCormicks, and Rockefellers of China, India, Russia, and the Middle East emerge as capitalists on a global scale. But with prime assets like I mentioned above on sale at bargain basement prices, it's just a matter of time until we will. Fred Wilson. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control" Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time. Alternet. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | McCain-Palin Take on the Badger State. The GOP ticket is set to attend a joint town hall meeting in Waukesha Thursday afternoon. Later, the two will split up, with Palin heading toward Ohio for an evening rally and McCain staying put in Wisconsin. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Obama Aims TV Ads at Younger Voters. The Democratic campaign has made an ad buy on channels associated with MTV networks. NYT. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Obama to McCain: "Say It To My Face" Said Obama: "I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn't willing to say it to my face. But I guess we've got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate." Political Wire. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Today's Polls, 10/8. We are now projecting Obama to win the election 90.5 percent of the time, with an average of 346.8 electoral votes, and a 5.4-point margin in the national popular vote.
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| 10/8/2008: | David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party" Brooks predicted an Obama victory by nine points, and said that although he found Obama to be "a very mediocre senator," he was is surrounded by what Brooks called "by far the most impressive people in the Democratic party." HuffPost. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | McCain calls voters 'fellow prisoners' "You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt the federal government has run up and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office. Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent." The Swamp. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | The fatal flaw in McCain's mortgage plan. Untangling the mess created by mortgage-backed securities and their derivatives will be complicated and very, very expensive. Salon. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Gallup Daily: Obama's Lead Over McCain Expands to 11. Barack Obama holds an 11-point lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report, 52% to 41%. This is the Obama's highest level of support to date, and also represents his largest lead of the campaign. Gallup. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | McCain plan would buy bad homeowner mortgages. John McCain's proposal to buy up bad home mortgages would use nearly half the $700 billion from the recent Wall Street bailout package to assist Americans directly, instead of indirectly by rescuing the nation's financial markets. AP. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Biden Supporter Makes Biden-Like Gaffe. Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric "ugly" and "mildly dangerous," and expressing shock that the Alaska Governor did not interrupt recent rallies when supporters shouted hateful attacks about Barack Obama, including "treason!" and "kill him!" ABC. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Biden: Palin Must Condemn Supporters' Hateful Obama Attacks. Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric "ugly" and "mildly dangerous," and expressing shock that the Alaska Governor did not interrupt recent rallies when supporters shouted hateful attacks about Barack Obama, including "treason!" and "kill him!" HuffPost. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Voter Intimidation Efforts In Philadelphia. Last week, fliers went up in predominantly African-American neighborhoods of Philadelphia warning that people with outstanding warrants or unpaid parking tickets could be arrested if they show up at the polls. NPR. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Biden: Palin's attacks 'malarkey' Sen. Joe Biden said Wednesday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has gone "way too far" in her attacks against Barack Obama. Politico. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Stephanopoulos: Why No Ayers Attack? One thing we didn't hear in last night's debate was John McCain launch the kind of personal attacks against Barack Obama that his campaign has been telegraphing would come. ABC. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | WI Poll: Obama +10. A new Rasmussen poll in Wisconsin shows Obama leading by 10 points, a jump of 8 points since the last poll was taken three weeks ago. Time. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | They Liked Him, They Really Liked Him. Greenberg's assessment of the evening is a partisan one, but a plausible explanation for the lop-sided response. "McCain is just not wearing well with intense exposure," he says. "But Obama wears very well." Time. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Debate leaves undecided voters unimpressed. Last night's debate was a town hall-style forum, and that means some of the questions came from the audience, which was made up of undecided voters. MPR. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | "David Duke Report" Says Violence Against Obama Would Be "Catastrophic" The October 2008 issue of The David Duke Report implicitly asks its readers for peaceful acceptance, should Barack Obama be elected president. Ballot Access. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | Fed joins in worldwide rate cut. The Federal Reserve, working in coordination with other central banks worldwide, enacted an emergency interest rate cut on Wednesday. CNN. | |
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| 10/8/2008: | McCain ad says Obama is 'not presidential' The presidential campaign of Republican John McCain just released a TV ad that reminds voters Democrat Barack Obama was rated the "most liberal" member of the Senate by The National Journal last year. USA Today. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | This town hall didn't help John McCain. The struggling Republican looked as cranky and erratic as he does in harsh Obama ads. Salon. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Editorial: Politics of Attack. Ninety minutes of forced cordiality during the debate did not erase the dismal ugliness of Senator John McCain's campaign in recent weeks. NYT. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | CBS Poll: Uncommitted Voters Say Obama Won Debate. After the debate, 68 percent of uncommitted voters said that they think Obama will make the right decisions on the economy, compared to 55 percent who said that before the debate. Fewer thought McCain would do so -- 48 percent after the debate, and 41 percent before. CBS. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | CNN Poll: Obama won the night. Fifty-four percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released 30 minutes after the end of the debate say that Obama did the best job Tuesday night, with 30 percent saying McCain performed better. CNN. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Obama 51%, McCain 42% Heading Into Debate. Frank Newport reports from Nashville, Tenn., on where the race stands going into the town hall-style debate. Gallup. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Cindy McCain says Obama running 'dirtiest campaign' ever. Cindy McCain lashed out at Barack Obama Tuesday, telling a Tennessee newspaper the Illinois senator has waged the "dirtiest campaign in American history." CNN. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Pre-whupping McCain's arse. The Obama team is firing on all cylinders right now. Salon. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Confronting Racism Against Obama. A pretty amazing speech by the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka. To see a white union man take on racism this way is very moving. Something truly profound could happen in this election, if we want it to. Andrew Sullivan. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Commentary: America's $53 trillion debt problem. The nation's real tab, on the other hand, amounted to $53 trillion as of the end of the last fiscal year. That was the sum of our public debt; accrued civilian and military retirement benefits; unfunded, promised Social Security and Medicare benefits; and other financial obligations -- all according to the government's most recent financial statement of September 30, 2007. CNN. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists. If Sarah Palin wasn't a secessionist, then why was she palling around with them? Jed Report. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Despite fighting words, few expect punches. While both sides arrived in Nashville in a brawling mood -- aides to both candidates say that tonight's town-hall style debate is no place to throw a punch. Politico. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | The Palins' Un-American Activities. Imagine if the Obamas had hooked up with a violently anti-American group in league with the government of Iran. Salon. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Man shot three times by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt. A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt. Daily Mail. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Gallup Daily: 9-Point Obama Lead Ties Campaign High. Obama has now held a statistically significant lead since Sept. 24-26 polling and has not trailed McCain since Sept. 13-15, roughly coinciding with the intensification of the financial crisis. Gallup. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Polls: Obama +2 in FL, +15 in PA. Florida A new Mason-Dixon poll in Florida shows Obama leading by 2 points (Oct. 4-6, 625 RV, MoE +/- 4%), the same marginal lead he held in an NBC News/Mason-Dixon poll last month. Time. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | MN Poll: Obama +14. A new poll from Minnesota Public Radio/University of MN -- Humphrey Institute shows Obama leaping to a 14-point lead. Time. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | The Chicago Way. My pals over at the Corner are very excited by the last-minute attempt to transform Bill Ayers into the Willie Horton of 2008. Well, good luck David Frum. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | How John McCain Went From Maverick to Crank. "Lipstick on a pig and sex ed were the last straw for some of McCain's old hands and media allies. And because of this cynicism, he didn't get the benefit of the doubt for his 'suspension,' and it was treated as the stunt it was." New York. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Household winter heat costs to rise 15 percent. Average household heating fuel costs this winter will be 15 percent higher than last year, with heating oil and natural gas users taking the biggest hit due to more expensive crude oil and colder weather than last winter, the government's top energy forecasting agency said Tuesday. Reuters. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | The Fed's bold move. The Federal Reserve today announced a new program to help the battered market for short-term business loans -- taking its closest step yet to lending directly to businesses. The program addresses commercial paper, a form of short-term funding that is crucial to many businesses operations. Stocks opened higher today after the Fed's announcement. CNN. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Palin faking her accent? You betcha. Check out this video montage of the Alaska governor turning her accent on and off. Salon. | |
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| 10/7/2008: | Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame. Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy." Washington Post. | |
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| 10/6/2008: | As Lehman Collapsed, Execs Were Rewarded, Failed Bank's Managers Received Bonuses While Pleading For Federal Aid, Documents Reveal. Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress was told Monday. CBS. | |
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| 10/6/2008: | FEC Queries McCain Campaign on 'Excessive Contributions' The FEC sent a letter to Sen. John McCain's campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about "contributions that appear to exceed the limits." Washington Post. | |
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| 10/6/2008: | Stocks Approach a Grim Milestone. At long last, stocks now seem to be (somewhat) sanely valued, which vastly increases the odds that they will rise over the long term -- and younger investors will get some of the same healthy returns that older investors experienced in the 1980s and 1990s. NYT. | |
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| 10/6/2008: | Fox/Rasmussen: Obama Opens Lead in Florida. A new Fox News/Rasmussen poll in Florida shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain, 52% to 45%. Just last week the race was tied at 47% each. Political Wire. | |
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