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New McCain Robocall Stars ... Sarah Palin!
Sarah Palin may have condemned robocalls yesterday as intrusive and a drain on people's attention spans, but that didn't stop her from recording her own robocall on behalf of the McCain campaign. Carol Johnson, a retiree from Spooner, Wisconsin, and a second reader from Nevada, report to us ...
Jane Mayer: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin.
newyorker.com — Here’s a little news flash,” Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and the Republican candidate for Vice-President,... announced in September, during her début at the Party’s Convention, in St. Paul. “I’m not a member of ... (more) Jane Mayer: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin.
 More Challenges for McCain, From Ayers to the Palin Pick
More Challenges for McCain, From Ayers to the Palin Pick
abcnews.go.com — More challenges for John McCain: Likely voters overwhelmingly reject his effort to make an issue of Barack... Obama's association with 1960s radical William Ayers. Fallout continues from McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for vice president, with 52 percent ... (more) More Challenges for McCain, From Ayers to the Palin Pick
Jane Mayer: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin.
newyorker.com — Here’s a little news flash,” Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and the Republican candidate for Vice-President,... announced in September, during her début at the Party’s Convention, in St. Paul. “I’m not a member of ... (more) Jane Mayer: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin.
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A Familiar Accent in Your Voice Mail?
Talking Points Memo — TPM readers report robocalls from Sarah Palin in Nevada and Wisconsin.

Magic Wand Fail
Balloon Juice — ... Sarah Palin, yesterday: If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand, I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans, talking to them about our plan to get the economy back on track and winning the war and not having to rely on the old conventional ways of campaigning that includes those robocalls… TPM today: Carol Johnson, a retiree from Spooner, Wisconsin, and a second reader from Nevada, report to us that they received robocalls starring Palin ...

Remainders: Polling
Ben Smith's Blog — ... McCain crowds are angry at the media's treatment of Joe the Plumber. Ben Pershing explains why movement in the RCP average doesn't mean anything. McCain goes after the feminists. A new McCain mailer has Palin as the campaign's moderate ticket-head. The RNC is still pushing the false baby killer claim in new anti-Obama mailers. New pro-Obama mailers blame the financial crisis on McCain and Bush. Palin records her own robocalls. Obama is using stripped-down populism to quietly ...

Remainders: Slow-cooked comeback
Jonathan Martin's Blog — The Fix looks at the data and concludes the race is tightening, but not by much. Sarah Palin doesn't hate robocalls enough not to tape her own. Obama overplays her hatred. Wolfson declares Nixonland dead. Rick Hasen puts all the election law litigation in perspective. Mike Murphy, responding to the Powell endorsement, has harsh words for the McCain campaign. A talking Moose will bracket Palin events. Rod Dreher sees opportunity in exile. Carville and Begala ...

Swap Meet
N/A — ... Next time you here McCain or Palin say the word they are are the “mavericks who will reform Washington, Wall Street., and all the wasteful government in between,”  when they want the other side to come clean about its relationships,  remember McCain’s relationship with Phil Gramm. ...

Tuesday's campaign round-up
Political Animal — ... of the report. * Just one day after Sarah Palin criticized the use of robocalls, she recorded her own robocall . * The Republican Party of Florida has begun attacking Obama on, of all things, ...

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Angry Bear — ... programs. Contributions to McCain-Palin Victory 2008 will go to the Compliance Fund, and to participating party committees for Victory 2008 programs. Legal costs (The team for Palin, not to mention the voter fraud settlement in Michigan, check), Accounting Compliance (Palin's taxes? check), media (how much are they paying Sean Hannity?), mail (that flyer in Missouri, check), phones (Sarah "I hate robo-calls" Palin's new robocall, check), and GOTV programs (riot police, check), and "participating party committees" ( ...

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