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08 Election Daily News Clips
October 3rd, 2008
*Candidate Tracking:*
***All times in Eastern Standard Time
12:45pm Palin: Attending a fundraiser in Dallas, TX
1:30pm McCain: Holding a town hall meeting at Colorado State University in
Pueblo, CO
*Tracking for this event
6:00pm Palin: Attending a fundraiser in San Antonio, TX
6:50pm BUSH: Attending a Hulshof for Governor dinner in St. Louis, MO
News Clips:
MCCAIN NEWS
*McCain touts Western senator values: In Colorado, the GOP candidate talks
about the economy and Iraq. (Denver Post 10/03/08)*
By Allison Sherry
Sen. John McCain is "guardedly confident" that the U.S. House of
Representatives will pass the $700 billion economic bailout package today,
noting that even though arm-twisting isn't his brand of politics, he's been
working the phones.
"I've never been any good at threatening people," the Arizona presidential
hopeful said in a Denver Post editorial board meeting Thursday. He said he
talked fellow Arizonan Rep. John Shadegg into changing his vote to a yes.
"Usually I like for things to stand on their own merit. In this case, I'm
calling them."
McCain called the current fiscal crisis the worst he's ever seen. The rescue
plan, though full of "pork" projects he usually decries, must pass because
the country is on the "verge of financial collapse," he said. "We have to
understand how serious it is."
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_10624062
*Take gloves off, McCain told: During a meeting in Denver, the candidate
vows he'll be tough at the next debate. (Denver Post 10/03/08)*
By Christopher N. Osher
Those who came by the hundreds for John McCain's town-hall meeting in Denver
on Thursday delivered the message that he should start getting tough with
the opposition.
With polls showing McCain's standing slipping in the presidential campaign,
one participant stood up and challenged McCain: "When are you going to take
the gloves off?"
The crowd jammed into a hall at the Sheraton Denver Hotel in downtown Denver
roared its approval.
"How about Tuesday night?" McCain answered, referring to his upcoming debate
with his Democratic rival, Barack Obama.
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_10622707
*McCain campaign writes off Michigan (AP 10/02/08)*
By LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain conceded
battleground Michigan to Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday, a major retreat
as he struggles to regain his footing in a campaign increasingly dominated
by economic issues.
In another sign of McCain's woes, his campaign signaled that it would
counter Obama's efforts in Indiana, a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat
since 1964. And, a New Hampshire survey showed the Republican trailing by
double digits.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MCCAIN?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-02-23-23-36
*McCain Moves out of Michigan: What It Means (WaPo blog 10/02/08)*
By Chris Cillizza
The news that John McCain's campaign is abandoning its efforts in Michigan
-- first reported by Jonathan Martin at Politico -- is the latest in a
series of negative developments for the Republican ticket over the last two
weeks.
Michigan was widely regarded by the campaigns of McCain and Barack Obama as
a central battleground -- perhaps the central battleground -- in the race
for 270 electoral votes. Although Democrats have dominated in both
presidential and other statewide contests in the Wolverine State over the
last few cycles (the Democratic nominee for president has carried Michigan
in each of the last four elections), Republicans believed that McCain was
the candidate to change that.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/10/mccain_moves_out_of_michigan_w.html
*McCain fate hangs on three states (Politcio bog 10/02/08)*
By: Mike Allen
ST. LOUIS — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) now must win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
or Minnesota in order to get enough electoral votes to win the presidency,
his campaign says.
Those were considered swing states in 2000 and 2004, but George W. Bush lost
them both times.
"Our ability to pick off one of those three states is where our fortunes are
largely held," a McCain official said. "These are states where Barack Obama
is on the defense."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14226.html
*McCain To Female Audience: This Crowd Is So Emotional (Huff Po 10/02/08)*
By Sam Stein
At a town hall meeting in Denver late Thursday night, McCain addressed the
predominantly female crowd (it was a women's town hall) with what was meant
to be a comedic aside.
"My friends, I've had hundreds of town hall meetings around this country for
many, many years and I've got to say, thanks to you and to you and to you
this is one of the more impactful and emotional town hall meetings I've ever
had. Maybe it's because it's a women's town hall."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/02/mccain-to-female-audience_n_131423.html
*McCain "Emotional" Because of "Women's" Town Hall? (The Atlantic blog
10/02/08)*
By Marc Ambinder
Sen. John McCain could have meant a lot of things here, but if his campaign
wants to play the sexism card after the debate, they're going to have a
tougher time once Democrats get hold of this video. Here's McCain, speaking
in Denver, just one hour ago:
My friends, I've had hundreds of town hall meetings around this country
for many, many years and I've got to say, thanks to you and to you and to
you this is one of the more impactful and emotional town hall meetings I've
ever had. Maybe it's because a women's town hall.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/mccain_emotional_because_of_wo.php
*McCain's Nosedive: Short-Term Tactics, Long-Term Problems (Time Magazine:
Printed 10/01/08)*
By James Carney and Michael Scherer / Washington
With both national and battleground state polls showing John McCain losing
ground against Barack Obama in recent weeks, the Republican presidential
nominee is getting a lot of unsolicited advice from inside his own party.
Some party professionals around the country are publicly calling on McCain
to try to change the subject from the nation's faltering economy by becoming
much more aggressive in his attacks against Obama. Go after the Illinois
senator on his ties to his controversial former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
some urge, or his associations with convicted Chicago real estate developer
Tony Rezko or former 60s radical Bill Ayers.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1846413,00.html
*UFCW vs. McCain, Wal-Mart (Politico blog 10/02/08)*
By Ben Smith
The United Food and Commercial Workers union is up, it says, in nine states
with an ad attacking McCain for opposing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,
which would have made it easier to sue for sex discrimination, and which the
union says would have improved the lot of women working at Wal-Mart.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/UFCW_vs_McCain_WalMart.html?showall
PALIN NEWS
*Courting Middle-Class Voters: Palin and Biden State Cases for Changing
Washington, Repairing Economy (WaPo 10/03/08)*
By Robert Barnes and Juliet Eilperin
From the opening moments of their highly anticipated 90-minute debate, each
portrayed themselves as a voice for middle America and attempted to make the
case that their ticketmates are best prepared to bring change to Washington
and the nation.
Palin, the first female governor of Alaska, referred to "average,
middle-class families like mine," and in her first answer, suggested that
the proper place to take the temperature of Americans' concerns about the
economy would be at a Saturday morning soccer game.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100202252.html?hpid=topnews
*Palin stands her ground in debate with Biden (McClatchy Newspaper 10/03/08)
*
By David Lightman
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin painted herself as a plain-spoken
middle-class champion while Joe Biden blended a common touch with deep
experience, as the two vice presidential nominees clashed over Iraq, the
economy and other key issues in Thursday's debate.
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/544296.html
*Palin and Biden Are Cordial but Pointed (NYT 10/03/08)*
By PATRICK HEALY
Gov. Sarah Palin used a steady grin, folksy manner and carefully scripted
talking points to punch politely and persist politically at the
vice-presidential debate on Thursday night, turning in a performance that
her rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., sought to undermine with cordially
delivered but pointed criticism.
If the issues and positions were familiar to many viewers — on taxes and the
economy, energy and oil, gay marriage, Iraq and Afghanistan — it was Ms.
Palin's debut in a nationally televised debate that made for unusual
theater. And Ms. Palin, a former small-town mayor, was unlike any running
mate in recent memory, using phrases like "heck of a lot" and "Main
Streeters like me" to appeal to working-class and middle-class voters who
feel abandoned by Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/us/politics/03debate.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
*Sarah Palin didn't lose debate debut; but Joe Biden didn't quite win (NY
Daily News 10/03/08)*
BY MICHAEL SAUL in St. Louis and DAVID SALTONSTALL in New York
Sarah Palin, the GOP's self-proclaimed "pit bull in lipstick," threw off her
muzzle in Thursday night's highly anticipated vice presidential debate and
took more than a few chomps out of rival Joe Biden and Democratic
presidential nominee Barack Obama.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/02/2008-10-02_sarah_palin_didnt_lose_debate_debut_but_.html
*Biden, Palin Clash on Taxes, Iraq in Sharp-Edged Debate (WSJ 10/03/08)*
By LAURA MECKLER and CHRISTOPHER COOPER
Gov. Palin was more fluent on issues than she has been in televised
interviews, throwing out facts, figures and names of foreign leaders with
ease. She echoed her running mate's talking points, and didn't make the
glaring mistakes that many had anticipated. But her citing of facts
sometimes came across as rote, she twice misstated the name of the top
American general in Afghanistan, and she was chided at times for not
sticking to the subject at hand.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122296343189798679.html#articleTabs=article
*Joe, and Sarah Six-Pack (WaPo 10/03/08)*
By Dana Milbank
But when Palin took the stage with Biden last night for what may have been
the most public IQ test ever administered, she had no problem meeting the
exceptionally low expectations. She had talking points adequate to fill the
90 seconds on the various topics Ifill tossed her way, and often forced
Biden to defend Barack Obama.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204250.html?hpid=topnews
*Sarah Palin may have helped herself in debate, but not McCain (LA Times
10/03/08)*
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Her steady peformance in the VP nominee showdown with Joe Biden seems
unlikely to turn the momentum of a campaign that lately has been in Obama's
favor.
Sarah Palin entered the vice presidential debate in St. Louis tonight facing
an electorate increasingly dubious about her readiness for the
second-highest office in the nation.
With a relatively steady performance, the Alaska governor may have helped
arrest voters' declining confidence in her candidacy since John McCain first
put her on the Republican ticket five weeks ago.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-assess3-2008oct03,0,2949181.story
*Biden wins the debate, but Palin regains lost ground (Anchorage Daily News
10/03/08)*
Gov. Sarah Palin's job in the vice presidential debate Thursday night in St.
Louis was to assure the nation that she's qualified to be vice president,
and if need be, step in as president.
She didn't close the deal, but she showed herself to be poised and
confident, still given to generalities but with a better command of her
issues.
http://www.adn.com/opinion/campaigncommentary/story/544355.html
*In Debate, Republican Ticket Survives One Test (NYT 10/03/08)*
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
It was not a tipping point for the embattled Republican presidential ticket,
the bad night that many Republicans had feared. But neither did it
constitute the turning point the McCain campaign was looking for after a
weeks-long stretch in which Senator Barack Obama seemed to be gaining the
upper hand in the race. Even if he no longer has to be on the defensive
about Ms. Palin, Mr. McCain still faces a tough environment with barely a
month until the election, as he acknowledged hours before the debate by
effectively pulling his campaign out of Michigan, a Democratic state where
Mr. McCain's advisers had once been optimistic of victory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/us/politics/03assess.html?hp
*Analysis: Stakes high, Palin tops expectations (AP 10/03/08)*
By LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While both vice presidential candidates achieved their
goals Thursday night, the stakes were much higher and the bar was much lower
for Sarah Palin. So, in the contest of low expectations, Palin won.
Joe Biden's task was to attack. Palin's was to attack, connect and stick to
her folksy script.
If nothing else, the first-term Alaska governor got past her raft of
nonsensical and meandering answers in evening news interviews with Katie
Couric and Charlie Gibson, the spoofs by "Saturday Night Live" and the
mockery of late-night comics.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEBATE_ANALYSIS?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-03-00-00-38
*Candidates Hit Their Marks (WSJ 10/03/08)*
By GERALD F. SEIB
The vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden turned out to
be a tug of war between opposites, pitting not just woman versus man, but
outsider versus insider, freshness versus experience, and simplicity versus
details.
And what voters took away from the encounter in St. Louis -- who they
thought won or lost the encounter -- probably depended a great deal on what
they expected coming into it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122299946971501079.html?mod=article-outset-box#articleTabs=article
*Folksy Palin, disciplined Biden get the job done (AP 10/03/08)*
By JOCELYN NOVECK
NEW YORK (AP) -- Even before she reached the podium, the first words out of
Sarah Palin's mouth set the tone for her debate night: "Hey, can I call ya
Joe?"
It was an unabashedly, one might even say relentlessly folksy and down-home
Palin that greeted Americans Thursday night, with phrases like "Doggone it,"
"You guys," "Darn right" and, one she must have been saving 'til the end,
"Say it ain't so, Joe!" You became "ya," change was "comin'" and a class of
third-graders even got a "shout-out" from the Alaska governor.
And whether viewers loved or hated it - a result likely to split down party
lines - it was clear this was a much more comfortable candidate than the one
who faced CBS News' Katie Couric in those painful interviews.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEBATE_IMAGE?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-03-01-13-59
*Early thoughts: No train wreck (MSNBC Fist Read 10/02/08)*
From NBC's Chuck Todd
As many said going in, this debate was about one person, Sarah Palin. And
for those tuning in wondering if we'd see a train wreck between Palin's
inexperience and Joe Biden's verbosity. Well, a train wreck it wasn't.
Palin started strong and proved to be a folksy cliché machine, which
probably came across as extremely charming. She lit up the screen at times
with her smile and occasional winks.
She proved extremely adept at avoiding questions or topics she didn't want
to answer, which is the big difference in her fairly smooth performance
tonight and her near-disastrous performances in those one-on-one interviews.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/02/1484464.aspx
*Fighting On (Hotline blog 10/02/08) *
By JENNIFER SKALKA
Sarah Palin delivered a more-than-solid, shockingly-fluid performance
tonight. From Iraq to global warming to taxes to Israel, she seemed to have
a greater grasp of the facts - or at least her ticket topper's standard
views - than she has in prior interviews.
Did she stop the bleeding? Yes. Likely.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/10/fighting_on.html#comments
*Excerpts/Grades for Halperin's Veep Debate Report Cards (Time blog
10/02/08)*
Mark Halperin's grades:
Palin: B
Biden: B
http://thepage.time.com/halperins-grades-for-the-veep-debate/
*Judge refuses to block Alaska Troopergate probe (AP 10/02/08)*
By MATT VOLZ
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An Alaska judge on Thursday refused to block a
state investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she
fired her public safety commissioner this summer.
Judge Peter Michalski threw out the lawsuit filed by five Republican state
legislators who said the investigation had been tainted by partisan politics
and was being manipulated to damage Palin shortly before the Nov. 4
presidential election.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_TROOPERGATE?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-02-23-57-49
*Alaskans cringe after month of listening to Palin (AP 10/02/08)*
By MATT VOLZ
Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Alaskans' two-year honeymoon with Gov. Sarah Palin
may have ended around the time the Republican vice presidential candidate
started saying that she told Congress "thanks but no thanks" on the Bridge
to Nowhere.
The line brought cheers on the campaign trail but drew winces back home
among those who knew Palin had supported the $400 million Ketchikan bridge
and only turned against it after Washington backed off its financing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_el_pr/palin_the_cringe_factor
OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS
*Hockey Mom on Thin Ice (WaPo 10/03/08)*
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
As for McCain, he found himself in a political hole and threw the dice with
Palin. At the time of her selection, voters were often compared with
"American Idol" watchers who put personality and stage presence above
everything else. But it turns out that Americans take the presidency very
seriously. And surviving 90 minutes on a stage with Biden did not transform
Palin into a plausible president.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203046.html
*The Palin Rebound (NYT 10/03/08)*
By DAVID BROOKS
When nervous, Palin has a tendency to over-enunciate her words like a
graduate of the George W. Bush School of Oratory, but Thursday night she
spoke like a normal person. It took her about 15 seconds to define her
persona — the straight-talking mom from regular America — and it was
immediately clear that the night would be filled with tales of soccer moms,
hockey moms, Joe Sixpacks, main-streeters, "you betchas" and "darn rights."
Somewhere in heaven Norman Rockwell is smiling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/opinion/03brooks.html?ref=opinion
*The VP Debate: Sarah the Speedy (WaPo online 10/03/08)*
By Harold Meyerson
She spoke almost as fast as Joe Biden. She smiled. She responded to any
question that required real-time thinking by ignoring it and dredging up a
canned answer from the McCain campaign's canned-answer pool. She resurrected
the phrase "doggone it," and others like it, for public consideration:
Should we revive it? Put it on our currency? "In God We Trust, Doggone It?"
And for all this, Sarah Palin was rewarded Thursday Night with a resounding
vote of Most Improved.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/the_vp_debate_sarah_the_speedy.html
*The VP Debate: Palin's Big Mistake (WaPo online 10/03/08)*
By Eugene Robinson
I thought Sarah Palin made one huge, central mistake…Her error was that she
hardly talked at all about policy solutions, except when the debate got onto
the subject of energy and offshore drilling. There, she seemed on terra
firma. But on everything else -- the financial crisis, the economy in
general, health care, the war on terror -- she gave little more than
promises of reform and "maverick"-y governance.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/the_vp_debate_palins_big_mista.html
*The VP Debate: Palin Good, Biden Better (WaPo online 10/03/08)*
By Steven Stein
Palin's performance should halt her freefall in popularity. Sure, it
sometimes seemed as if campaign operatives where whispering answers into her
ear. And if I hear the word "maverick" one more time, I'm going to hurl a
large object at my television. But I think she reminded people why they
liked her so much in the first place – it's hard to resist that folksy
charm.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/the_vp_debate_palin_good_biden.html
*Free Sarah Palin: She's doing just fine being herself. (WSJ 10/03/08)*
Editorial
Maybe John McCain should fire the advisers who won't let Sarah Palin do more
interviews. The Alaska Governor has faced two major campaign challenges --
her acceptance speech and last night's debate -- and each time she's shown
herself worthy of the national stage. Let Mrs. Palin be herself, and then
when she makes a mistake, as every candidate does, it won't be treated like
some epic judgment on her fitness to be Vice President.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122300588457301501.html
*The Joe and Sarah show: Biden and Palin squared off in a vice presidential
debate that was mostly political theater. (LA Times 10/03/08)*
Editorial
Republicans can now remove their hands from their eyes. Gov. Sarah Palin
shared a stage with Sen. Joe Biden and for 90 minutes skirted the edge of
the abyss but avoided the plunge. Luckily for her, their debate Thursday
night avoided serious civics -- no questions about Supreme Court rulings and
only the briefest exposition on what constitutes the vice presidency. She
did nothing to arrest her slide from phenomenon to embarrassment, but her
conservative supporters, many jumping ship in recent days, can take solace
that she correctly pronounced the names of several world leaders.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-debate3-2008oct03,0,5117547.story
*The Running Mates' Moment (WaPo 10/03/08)*
Editorial
Sarah Palin and Joseph Biden didn't embarrass themselves, but voters had a
right to expect more.
Ms. Palin was more confident and more coherent than she had been in the few,
increasingly disastrous interviews she has given since joining the
Republican ticket. The two nominees conducted a civil discussion about the
relative merits of the two tickets, and for that we suppose we should be
grateful. But there was little serious give-and-take about the major issues
of the day -- from the Wall Street bailout to the war in Iraq -- and much
trading of canned and misleading talking points.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203259.html
*The Vice-Presidential Debate (NYT 10/03/08)*
Editorial
After a series of stumbling interviews that raised serious doubts even among
conservatives about her fitness to serve as vice president, Ms. Palin had to
do little more than say one or two sensible things and avoid an
election-defining gaffe.
By that standard, but only by that standard, the governor of Alaska did
well. But Ms. Palin never really got beyond her talking points in 90
minutes, mostly repeating clichés and tired attack lines and energetically
refusing to answer far too many questions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/opinion/03fri1.html?ref=opinion
*Edge of the Abyss (NYT 10/03/08)*
By PAUL KRUGMAN
There's growing evidence that the financial crunch is spreading to Main
Street, with small businesses having trouble raising money and seeing their
credit lines cut. And leading indicators for both employment and industrial
production have turned sharply worse, suggesting that even before Lehman's
fall, the economy, which has been sagging since last year, was falling off a
cliff.
How bad is it? Normally sober people are sounding apocalyptic. On Thursday,
the bond trader and blogger John Jansen declared that current conditions are
"the financial equivalent of the Reign of Terror during the French
Revolution," while Joel Prakken of Macroeconomic Advisers says that the
economy seems to be on "the edge of the abyss."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/opinion/03krugman.html?ref=opinion
*Why the Bank Bill Should Pass: Nobody is happy with everything in the
legislation. (WSJ 10/03/08)*
By STENY HOYER
A vital bill may have been defeated Monday. But the danger isn't going away
until we join together, Democrats and Republicans alike, to solve the
problem. There will be time to deal with the irresponsibility that caused
this crisis -- right now, though, it will take all of us to fix it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122299004096600345.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
BUSH NEWS
*Judge Orders More Searches of Visits to Abramoff (AP 10/02/08)*
A federal judge has rejected the Bush administration's attempt to shield
records that may shed light on the White House visits of now imprisoned
lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,431942,00.html
OTHER TOP NEWS
*Stevens trial will proceed: NO MISTRIAL: Errors by prosecutors won't halt
proceedings, judge rules (Anchorage Daily News 10/02/08)
*By ERIKA BOLSTAD and RICHARD MAUER
WASHINGTON -- Prosecutors seriously bungled their obligations on evidence
and witnesses but Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial will proceed as
planned, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/544570.html*
Jobless Claims Point to Weakening Economy (Economix 10/02/08)*
By R.M. Schneiderman
Analysts are expecting an unemployment rate of 6.1 percent and a loss of
100,000 jobs in the month.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/jobless-claims-point-to-weakening-economy/
*Support Rallied as House Readies for Its Second Bailout Vote (WaPo
10/03/08)*
By Lori Montgomery and Dan Eggen
A tide of lobbyists representing corporate executives, small-business
owners, farmers and retirees swamped Capitol Hill yesterday in hopes of
pushing an emergency economic rescue plan through Congress, but the fate of
the measure remained uncertain as the House prepared for a climactic vote at
midday today.
Leaders of both parties said they were optimistic that they would be able to
marshal more support for the Bush administration's $700 billion bailout than
they mustered on Monday, when the House delivered a shocking defeat to the
measure and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting 778 points, or
about 7 percent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100201675.html?hpid=topnews
*Confronting Taliban, Pakistan Finds Itself at War (NYT 10/03/08)*
By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist
bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed
as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up right on their doorstep.
An estimated 250,000 people have now fled the helicopters, jets, artillery
and mortar fire of the Pakistani Army, and the assaults, intimidation and
rough justice of the Taliban who have dug into Pakistan's tribal areas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/world/asia/03pstan.html?hp
*Jersey voter registration sets record (Newark Star Ledger 10/03/08)*
BY ROBERT SCHWANEBERG
A record 5.1 million New Jerseyans are registered to vote and there are
still 11 days left to sign up for this year's presidential election, the
Secretary of State's Office announced yesterday.
As of Oct. 1, there were 5,127,790 registered voters in the Garden State, up
330,445 since last year's general election in November. The deadline to
register to vote in this year's presidential election is Oct. 14.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-11/122300863255480.xml&coll=1
*Ohio Court Rules for McCain-Palin on Absentee Ballots (WaPo online
10/02/08)*
By Mary Pat Flaherty
The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that disputed absentee ballot
applications mailed to state voters by the McCain-Palin campaign should be
accepted by local elections officials and directed State Secretary of State
Jennifer Brunner to reverse her position that boards reject them.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/02/ohio_court_rules_for_mccain-pa.html
*Obama Campaign Clears its Va. Voter Registration Goal (WaPo online
10/02/08)*
By Alec MacGillis
But the Virginia Board of Elections today posted new numbers showing the GOP
nominee facing an unusually challenging climate in the state, which George
Bush won with 54 percent of the vote in 2004. In September, the board
reports, 106,150 people registered to vote in the state; combined with
deaths and people moving out of the state, the net increase for the month
was 101,737.
That is more than double the number of new registrants in August, and it
places Barack Obama's campaign ahead its goal of making sure 150,000
Virginians got added to the rolls in the months since the primaries ended
(on top of the 142,000 Virginians who registered in the first five months of
the year).
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/02/obama_campaign_clears_its_va_v.html
POLLS
*Other Takes: Polls Give It To Biden; Luntz Focus Group Likes Palin (The
Atlantic blog 10/02/08)*
By Marc Ambinder
CNN's poll gives the debate to Biden, 51% to 36%.....Frank Luntz's focus
group found Palin's performance to be most effective...CBS News's poll: 46%
of uncommitted voters surveyed gave the debate to Biden, where 21% thought
Palin won. But 55% said their opinion of Palin changed for the better; 53%
said their opinions of Biden changed in the positive direction as well. 18%
of uncommitted voters are now committed to Obama; 10% are committed to
McCain.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/cnns_poll_gives_the_debate.php
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