The Note's Must-Reads

October 8, 2008— -- 2008: The Presidential Debates - Night Two of Three:

Watch the entire presidential debate from ABC News: LINK

ABC News Video: Highs and Lows from the Debate: LINK

ABC News' John Berman, Lisa Chinn, Dennis Dunlavey, Brian Hartman, Tom Giusto, Kimberley Randolph, Z. Byron Wolf, Justin Rood, Teddy Davis, Karen Travers, Kirit Radia, Luis Martinez, Ariane deVogue, Arlette Saenz, Reynolds Holding and Jerika Richardson: "Fact Check: McCain, Obama Charges and Countercharges" LINK

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos: "Two Debates Down, Two Wins for Obama" LINK

ABC News' Russell Goldman: "Round II: Candidates Sparred Over Economy, Foreign Policy, Leadership" LINK

ABC News' Jake Tapper: "'That One'" LINK

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta: "Debating McCain Reference to 'That One'" LINK

ABC News' Jake Tapper: "About That Obama Pork Request McCain Keeps Talking About..." LINK

ABC News Nightline Report Card: "Who Dominated the Debate?" LINK

Newsweek's Richard Wolffe: "McCain Attacked Relentlessly, but Didn't Knock Obama Down" LINK

Time Magazine's Mark Halperin: "Grading the Second Presidential Debate" LINK

The Chicago Sun-Times' Abdon M. Pallasch: "Candidates Spar over Taxes, Foreign Policy" LINK

The Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown and Bill Nichols: "Debate II: McCain Struggles To Derail Obama" LINK

The Politico's Arena Referees: "The McCain-Obama Rematch: How Did It Go?" LINK

The Politico's Video: "Debate Video" LINK

The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler and Christopher Cooper: "McCain, Obama Square Off Over How To Fix The Economy" LINK

The Wall Street Journal's Jay Solomon: "McCain, Obama Say Financial Crisis Threatens U.S. Power Overseas" LINK

The Wall Street Journal's Douglas Belkin: "Economic Mess Leaves Kluchars Wanting Blood; Neither Candidate Delivered Tuesday Night" LINK

The Wall Street Journal and The Capital Journal's Gerald F. Seib: "Debate Tactics Reflect Shift In Contest's Dynamics" LINK

The Washington Post's Dan Balz, Anne E. Kornblut and Michael Abramowitz: "Economic Crisis Dominates Debate" LINK

The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein: "For the New Contagion, the Same Old Prescriptions" LINK

The Washington Post's Tom Shales: "A Showdown That Was More of a Letdown" LINK

The Washington Post's The Fix with Chris Cillizza: "The Nashville Skyline Debate: First Thoughts" LINK

The Washington Post's Robert G. Kaiser: "Analysis: Second Presidential Debate" LINK

The Boston Globe's Scott Helman and Susan Milligan: "McCain, Obama push hard on records, vision for nation" LINK

The Boston Globe's Foon Rhee: "And the winner is..." LINK

The Boston Globe's James F. Smith: "Debate Analysis: Obama connected better than McCain" LINK

The Boston Globe's Scott Helman and Susan Milligan: "Obama, McCain clash on vision, records" LINK

The Boston Globe's Foon Rhee: "Round two for McCain, Obama" LINK

The Boston Globe's Michael Paulson: "Faith at the second presidential debate" LINK

Bloomberg's Catherine Dodge and Kristin Jensen: "McCain, Obama Clash On Taxes, Regulation, Skip Personal Attacks" LINK

Bloomberg's Aliza Marcus: "McCain, Obama Compete To Revamp U.S. Health Insurance System" LINK

USA Today's Susan Page: "Analysis: Sharp tone, no gaffes in town hall debate" LINK

USA Today's Matt Kelley and Ken Dilanian: "Fact check: Context of key debate claims" LINK

USA Today's Kathy Keily and David Jackson: "McCain, Obama spar over economy in debate" LINK

The Boston Herald's Hillary Chabot: "Battle yields no knock outs" LINK

The Boston Herald's Howie Carr: "My friends, we're in for some trouble" LINK

The Boston Herald's Jessica Heslam: "Debate snoozefest with Tom Brokaw at helm" LINK

The Boston Herald's Editorial Staff: "Straight talk time" LINK

The Boston Herald's Joe Dwinell: "Poll: Who appears presidential?" LINK

The Boston Herald's Jill Radsken: "Inquiring citizens sports some talkers" LINK

The Boston Globes' Scott Malone: "Candidate Advisers Debate Carbon Capture Funds" LINK

The Boston Globes' Foon Rhee: "Bailout Not Enough, Obama and McCain Say" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus: "In Debate, McCain and Obama Battle Mostly To A Draw" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Mark Z. Barabak and Michael Finnegan: "McCain, Obama Clash Over Economy In A Testy Debate" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Noam N. Levey: "Fact-Checking The Candidates" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Seema Mehta: "Debate Reaction Varies" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Robin Abcarian: "The Debate In Body Language" LINK

The New York Times' Adam Nagourney: "Obama and McCain Clash Over Economy" LINK

The New York Times 'Frank Bruni: "Downturn in Decibels, Too" LINK

The New York Times' Staff: "Check Point: The Second Presidential Debate" LINK

The New York Times'Staff: "Debate Watch: The Military View" LINK

The Hills' Sam Youngman: "Economy Dominates Second Debate" LINK

The Hills' Sam Youngman : "Analysis: Debate wasn't McCain's game changer" LINK

The Hills' Sam Youngman: "Economy Dominates Early Part Of Town Hall Debate" LINK

The New York Daily News' David Saltonstall: "Barack Obama, John McCain Clash On Economic Crisis During Second Debate" LINK

The Boston Globes' James F. Smith: "Debate Analysis: Obama Connected Better Than Mccain" LINK

The Boston Globes' Foon Rhee: "Obama, McCain Clash On Vision, Records" LINK

The Boston Globes' Peter S. Canellos: "On Path To Presidency, Stark Contrast In Role Models" LINK

The Associated Press' Jim Kuhnhenn and Calvin Woodward: "Fact check: Obama, McCain twist records" LINK

The Associated Press: "McCain would buy bad homeowner mortgages" LINK

2008: McCain:

The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "Bush, Though Not Campaigning, Delivers a Message to Voters: 'Judges Matter'" LINK

The New York Times' Kevin Sack: "Business Cool Toward McCain's Health Coverage Plan" LINK

The Washington Post's Dan Eggen: "Bush Stresses Judicial Nominations - President Faults Democrats for 'Broken' Confirmation Process" LINK

The Washington Post's Michael Laris: "McCain Pledge Sought For Dulles Rail Project - Vote on Metro Funding Upset Va. Leaders" LINK

The Boston Herald's Hillary Chabot: "'Analysts: Underdog John McCain needs to 'play hardball'" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Staff: "John McCain's Ties To Charles Keating" LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Mark Z. Barabak: "John McCain's Options Narrow On The Electoral College Map" LINK

The Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel and Cecile Dehesdin: "Dems hope Singlaub is McCain's Ayers" LINK