Huffington Post: Biden Tells Fifth Grade Reporter What VP Actually Does (VIDEO)

"When Joe Biden campaigned in Palm Beach County, Florida in September he was interviewed by one Damon Weaver, a remarkably poised and charming 5th grader. Weaver's news segment on Biden's visit is highly entertaining and worth checking out, And make sure to watch to the end, when Weaver pronounces Biden his 'homeboy.'"

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AP: Lieberman On Palin: "Thank God She's Not Gonna Have To Be President From Day One"

"Lieberman added that if Democrat Barack Obama wins the White House, he would support his presidency."

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Politico.com: Palin allies report rising campaign tension

"Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics. Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline."

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Washington Times: McCain supporters heckle early voters

"Photographer Joe Eddins and I headed over to the closest one and found a steady line of voters hoping to cast ballots early. Most seemed to be Obama supporters and several had come from the rally. Nearly all the voters were black. Also at the polling site was a group of loud and angry protesters who shouted and mocked the voters as they walked in. Nearly all were white."

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Huffington Post: Waiting for Nov. 4th, by Larry David

"I can't take much more of this. Two weeks to go, and I'm at the end of my rope. I can't work. I can eat, but mostly standing up. I'm anxious all the time and taking it out on my ex-wife, which, ironically, I'm finding enjoyable. This is like waiting for the results of a biopsy. Actually, it's worse. Biopsies only take a few days, maybe a week at the most, and if the biopsy comes back positive, there's still a potential cure. With this, there's no cure. The result is final. Like death."

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McClatchy Washington Bureau: Enough Joe the Plumber; here's to Kareem the Soldier

"Obama 'is a Christian,' Powell said. 'He has always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, 'What if he is?' Is there something wrong with being Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That is not America.' He added: 'I am troubled that within the (Republican) Party we have these kinds of expressions' suggesting that Obama is a Muslim, and that if he is, he likely associates with terrorists."

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New York Times: McCain Fights to Keep Crucial Blue State in Play

"Mr. Obama, who was in Florida on Tuesday, had no immediate plans to return to Pennsylvania in coming days, perhaps the most telling sign that his strategists were comfortable with his position there. But Democratic officials in the state said they had been urging the Obama campaign to send the senator back there at least once more before Election Day to shore up support."

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Think Progress: Palin Claims The Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The U.S. Senate’

"Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“."

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Chicago Tribune: Political signs bring threats in Villa Park

"Two supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama found handwritten death threats in their mailboxes Thursday and reported them to Villa Park police."

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Slate.com: Stop covering Palin until she gives a press conference, by Christopher Hitchens

"...continued media coverage of her appearances is no better than lending a megaphone to a demagogue, the better to amplify her propaganda."

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Rep. Michele Bachmann Calls for Investigation of Anti-American Members of Congress and Suggests Obama is Anti-American — Then Denies the Statements

From Jonathan Turley:

"Bachmann’s comments are unfortunately an example of how, once unleashed by a campaign, these attacks quickly de-evolve into a form of fascistic rhetoric. From Palin’s reference to “pro-American” parts of the country to Bachmann’s call for the investigation of anti-American views, the all citizens should be equally concerned. At best, Bachmann’s comments were irresponsible and worthy of condemnation. At worse, it is a reflection of how politicians have unleashed the scourge of McCarthyism again in this country."

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Los Angeles Times: Ontario police arrest man in voter fraud case

"The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud."

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Reuters: McCain compares Obama to European socialists

"'At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are up-front about their objectives. They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Senator Obama,' McCain said."

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AP: Obama raises stunning $150 million in September

"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $150 million in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain."

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Think Progress: Bachmann Calls For McCarthyite Investigation Into Anti-American Activities Of Liberals

"[Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)] called on the media to conduct investigations into the anti-American activities of members of Congress, similar to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s discredited House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in the 1950s. “I think people would love to see an expose like that,” she claimed."

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CNN: Obama camp calls for special prosecutor in fraud investigation

"The Obama campaign announced Friday that it is asking Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy. Dannehy is also the special prosecutor recently appointed to investigate the U.S. attorney firing scandal. It's the latest salvo in an escalating war over allegations of possible voter irregularities during the upcoming presidential election. 'What they're actually about is the unprecedented effort to essentially sap the American people of confidence in the voting process,' Bob Bauer, the Obama campaign's general counsel, said Friday on a conference call."

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FiveThirtyEight.com: On the Road: Marietta, Ohio

"When local field organizer Christian Lund took the stage just prior to Joe Biden's appearance on Tuesday night in Marietta, he asked those in the attendant crowd of about 4,000 to look at the sheets in their hands. Each sheet held four names, and each name had a phone number and a bar code for later data scanning. Lund asked the people in the crowd to make four phone calls to this targeted group, and then he demonstrated. Lund got voicemail. Over the microphone, he left a message informing his phonee about where and when to early vote, as well as where and when the Obama volunteer office was located in town and what it's hours were. After he was finished, it was the crowd's turn. 'We even got extra cell tower juice just for tonight' Lund told the crowd, so go ahead and make four quick calls on Barack Obama's behalf. They did."

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A Vote For Science: All 2008 US Nobel Laureates in Science Endorse Obama!

"From the Obama campaign: 'With one voice, 65 of the nation's greatest minds, the largest number of Nobel Laureates to ever endorse a political candidate for office, have encouraged the American public to vote Obama on November 4th.'"

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Salon.com: Sarah Palin and the Jewish vote in Florida

"The local retirement community known as Century Village is just one outpost in a statewide network of Century Villages, Florida’s largest chain of retirement complexes. It is also a time capsule of the New York Jewish gestalt, circa 1965, transplanted intact to the golf greens of Palm Beach County. If a small, unscientific sampling of the shoppers in the Hamptons Plaza mall, directly across from the complex, is any indication, John McCain’s choice of running mates may have pushed the residents of this heavily Democratic enclave back in Barack Obama’s direction."

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BBC News: 106-year-old voter chooses Obama

"A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be one of the oldest voters to cast a ballot in the 2008 US Presidential election. Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama."

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