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[jackshoegazer]

First off, sixty-five Nobel Prize Winners have endorsed Obama in an Open Letter to the American People. Of course, you know those Nobel people are a bunch of lousy no-goodnicks.
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On Tuesday, the Anchorage Daily News also printed a blistering editorial on Palin, calling her response to the State Legislature's Troopergate report "Orwellian."   She claims the report vindicates her when in fact it says on page eight, "I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."  She broke the state ethics law, pure and simple.
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Also: McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam Hussein In Lobbying Effort:

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

and Rick Davis, McCain's Campaign Manager, Made Nearly $2 Million To Defend Mortgage Giants From Stricter Regulations:

Senator John McCain's campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.

Not to mention that John McCain told USA TODAY that he "has no problem with his top foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann's past lobbying work. The fighting between Russia and Georgia has brought renewed attention to Scheunemann and the lobbying firm he founded, Orion Strategies, which received more than $730,000 from Georgia since 2001."

Can he have any more lobbyists on his team?
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Find out how your taxes will change under the candidates tax plans.
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Obama has opened up a 14-point lead in a CBS/NYT survey.  Don't get over-confident my friends, there's still 20 days left and who knows what ugliness lies on the last page of McCain's scorched-earth campaign book.  However, conservatives are blaming McCain for the possible Obama landslide.
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Also: The Scholastic Presidential Election Poll results are in and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama won with 57 percent of the vote, to 39 percent for Republican nominee Senator John McCain.

"Since 1940, the results of the student vote have mirrored the outcome of the general election all but twice: In 1948, kids voted for Thomas E. Dewey over Harry S. Truman. In 1960, more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for John F. Kennedy. In 2000, a majority of student voters chose George W. Bush, mirroring the Electoral College result, but not the result of the popular vote. "

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Don't forget the last debate is tonight.  Tune in, turn on, vote!
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EDIT:  I had to add one more link - The Daily Show on McCain's new fiery stump speech.  Awesomely hilarious.