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    ‘Gossip Girl’ Stars Shill for ObamaGood kids don’t let parents vote McCain.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Is It Really Over for McCain?And will Obama take it in a landslide?
    By Dan Amira
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    Tina Fey: If Palin Wins in November, ‘I’m Leaving Earth’The comedian loves playing the Alaska governor on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ but until November will be enough, thanks.
    By Chris Rovzar
  4. Neel Kashkari SpeaksAlso, apparently no one actually cares that it is a holiday.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    McCain’s Bad Weekend: A Catch-upThe McCain campaign, after some bad news over the weekend, is still slipping and is now pinning its hopes to a stunning debate performance by the candidate this week.
    By Chris Rovzar
  7. the third terminator
    Bloomberg Gets Boost from Christine QuinnShe’s supporting the mayor’s bid for a change in term limits. But this is a gamble for her, too.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    ‘Barack Osama’ on Hundreds of Upstate Absentee BallotsEverybody agrees it was a typo. Is this the first big voting error this week that nobody’s going to get enraged about?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    What Obama Needs to Know for His Pre-Election InfomercialIf Barack Obama is going to really make a half-hour infomercial, there are some things he needs to know.
    By Chris Rovzar
  10. instant politics
    Michael Idov and Matt Taibbi on Obama’s Foregone Historic Win, and the Morass It Will Land In’Rolling Stone’ columnist Matt Taibbi and ‘New York’ writer Michael Idov discuss why John McCain is “one of the worst” presidential candidates ever, Russian glee over American’s problems, and what happens after a possible President Obama is hammered for what he doesn’t manage to achieve.
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    Does America Care About William Ayers?Or are we kind of preoccupied with other things right now?
    By Dan Amira
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    Face Time: How to Read the Candidates’ Key LooksIs it just us, or do each of the candidates only have a few facial expressions in their repertoires?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Is the October Surprise the Seismic Wallop of Two Monosyllables?That One. That One. That One. It’s the two-word determiner everybody loves to say!
    By Tim Murphy
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    McCain’s Mortgage-Bailout Plan Has Pretty Much Everyone Up In ArmsDoubts are being raised in both liberal and conservative corners about the burden the plan places on taxpayers.
    By Dan Amira
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    Economy Rhetoric Gets Increasingly WarlikeThe administration’s use of phrases like ‘regime change’ is freaking us out a little.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Garrett M. Graff and Michael Idov on Their Anxieties Over the Mounting Democratic GleeGarrett M. Graff, author of ‘The First Campaign,’ and ‘New York’ writer Michael Idov discuss dirty campaigning and the Internet, what the future holds for Joe Lieberman and Sarah Palin, and never underestimating the ability of Democrats to screw up winning.
  17. In Case You Were Wondering What Your Oligarchs Were Up To TodayEverybody just calm down — Ronald Lauder says it’s okay again for Bloomberg to run for a third term.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    This William Ayers Thing Can’t Go On Forever — Maybe McCain Should Start Playing CrapsYesterday afternoon, the McCain camp escalated their Ayers rhetoric, but there are still 26 days until the election. If this is going to be their only tactic, they’re going to have to get extreme.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    McCain Addresses His ‘Fellow Prisoners’The GOP candidate’s latest flub is harmless, though amusing.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    John McCain Unleashes His Secret Weapon … Cindy McCainWhen someone who has barely spoken the entire campaign suddenly goes on the attack two days in a row, it’s hard not to notice.
    By Dan Amira
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    OMG, Is Frank Bruni Going to Ditch Food for Politics?We had a moment of panic when we saw his name on a front-page political analysis piece in the ‘Times’ this morning. But Bruni assures us he’s not leaving the dinner table.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    McCain’s Five Oldest Debate MomentsMcCain didn’t help himself last night by repeatedly doing and saying things that, frankly, made him seem even older than he already appears.
    By Dan Amira
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    It’s True: Paris Hilton Really Is Running for Fake PresidentIn Funny or Die’s latest video, Paris Hilton talks campaign tactics with former fake president Martin Sheen.
    By Chris Rovzar
  24. instant politics
    Matthew Yglesias and Garrett M. Graff on the Election’s Generational DivideThink Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias and Garrett M. Graff, author of ‘The First Campaign’ and editor at large for the ‘Washingtonian,’ discuss the generational split among voters, how our economy might be transformed for the better, and why, in the election, technology and innovation is the elephant in the room.
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    McCain Calls Obama ‘That One’: Why?McCain calling Obama “that one” is being dissected by political observers, who, in a testament to the moment’s weirdness, haven’t come close to a consensus on its meaning.
    By Dan Amira
  26. Heilemann: Obama Closes the Deal in Second DebateMcCain barely tried to alter the dynamic of the race last night, while Obama was a ‘message machine.’
    By John Heilemann
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    Republican Crowds Getting a Little NutsMcCain and Palin rallies are turning into a sinister form of ‘$20,000 Pyramid.’
    By Dan Amira
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    Where to Drink Tonight: Your Country Needs You!The economy’s in the can — what’s another $3 beer? Here’s a roundup of debate-viewing parties tonight.
    By Mike Vilensky
  29. Obama’s Covert Cuteness Campaign?!!?!Barack has a secret weapon: holding babies. Adorable, sweet little babies who cuddle for change.
    By Jessica Coen
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    Bloomberg Still Working on Ronald Lauder’s All-Important ApprovalHey, remember when the people of New York gave billionaire makeup heir Ronald Lauder the power to temporarily alter laws at his whim?
    By Dan Amira
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    Why Tonight’s Debate Won’t MatterWe round up the top ten reasons this debate just isn’t going to make a difference in the race.
    By Chris Rovzar
  32. party chat
    Alan Cumming’s One Crazy Election NightOur absolute favorite actor tells us about what he did the night George Bush won in 2004.
    By Justin Ravitz
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    Obama Making Serious Battleground Gains Over McCainA slew of reports out today show Obama gaining in national and swing-state polls.
    By Chris Rovzar
  34. governor awesome
    Governor Paterson Discusses His Reelection PlansSurprise! He has them!
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Oh Dear: Sarah Palin in Her Miss Alaska Evening-Gown CompetitionThe latest video from the vice-presidential nominee’s Miss Alaska competition tells us a little something about backless dresses, sequins, and God.
    By Chris Rovzar
  36. Sarah Palin Wants to Spoof Tina Fey on ‘SNL’Apparently there’s talk of Sarah Palin appearing on ‘Saturday Night Live’ to lampoon Tina Fey. Could this really happen?
    By Chris Rovzar
  37. What If You Could Redesign the White House?Last night, entries in a design competition to reimagine the ‘ultimate symbol of power’ were unveiled in Nolita.
    By Joshua David Stein
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    Say It Ain’t So, Joe!The Delaware senator made a DANGEROUS gaffe last night. And unlike other ‘mainstream media’ outlets, we will not play it down.
    By Jessica Pressler
  39. instant politics
    James Fallows and Katie Roiphe on Sarah Palin Winking Her Way Through the DebateJames Fallows of ‘The Atlantic’ and Katie Roiphe, the author, most recently, of ‘Uncommon Arrangements,’ discuss Sarah Palin’s flirtatiousness last night, and which voters she was really winking at.
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    Five-Person Poll: What’s on the Minds of New Army Recruits?We talked to a group of new Army recruits in Times Square this week as they are sworn in, and found out some (but not all) of what is on their minds.
    By Tim Murphy
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    Palin and Biden: Debating the DebateSo what did everybody think about how Joe Biden and Sarah Palin did last night?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Sarah Palin and Joe Biden’s Face-off: Let’s Get Right to the S(ubt)ex(t)The tension between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden was at once so congenial and so confrontational that at moments, we’ll admit, we were a little titillated.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Why Is Obama Doing So Well These Days?John McCain has an answer: ‘Because life isn’t fair.’
    By Chris Rovzar
  44. McCain to Pull Out of MichiganPulling out of a hot battleground where you have been slowly losing over a long period of time? Is this the McCain we know?
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Yep, It Was Howard Rubenstein‘They’re all clients,’ the PR man told us of the heavy-hitters he rounded up to support a third term for Bloomberg.
    By Geoffrey Gray
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    How Palin, McCain’s Kryptonite, Could Still Take the DebatePalin has been driving independent and moderate voters in key battleground states away from John McCain, and that fact is going to frame how she debates Joe Biden on Thursday night.
    By Peter Keating
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    Sarah Palin’s Supreme Court Answers Not As Gafftastic As PredictedTurns out the Alaska governor couldn’t name a Supreme Court ruling she ‘disagreed’ with, not, as previously rumored, any ruling at all.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Bailout Passes in the Senate, But Not Without DramaMcCain ices Obama on the Senate floor.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Howard Rubenstein’s Fingerprints All Over Bloomberg Third-Term PushA bunch of boldface names came out in support of abolishing term limits today, but earlier in the week, the loudest voices on the subject were all clients of the PR legend.
    By Geoffrey Gray
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    The Top Ten Excuses Sarah Palin Could Use to Back Out of the RaceIt would be audacious, and perhaps insane, for her to do so — but if we’ve learned anything from the McCain/Schmidt strategy, it’s that no stunt or story line is too audacious to peddle to voters.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Do This Few People Really Watch the Alaska Gubernatorial Debates?Did anyone really LOOK at this picture in the ‘Times’ today?
    By Mark Byrne
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