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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
The Hill's Meghan McNamara: "Air War: Feeney's mea culpa ad scores, honestly" LINK
The Associated Press' Liz Sidoti: "Debate Stakes Higher for McCain as Insults Mount" LINK
The Associated Press' Pete Yost: "McCain Linked to Private Group in Iran-Contra Case" LINK
Time Magazine's Michael Scherer: "Can McCain Map Out a Comeback Strategy?" LINK
The Washington Times' Stephen Dinan: "McCain, Struggling in Red States, Hits Obama's Past" LINK
2008: McCain and Obama:
ABC News' 50 States and 50 Days -- Next stop is Indiana LINK
The Washington Post's Brian Krebs: "Spammers Favor Obama Over McCain 7 to 1" LINK
The Boston Herald's Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: "Risky homestretch for front-runner" LINK
2008: McCain:
The Los Angeles Times' Bob Drogin and Maura Reynolds: "McCain Mortgage Plan Would Bail Out Homeowners" LINK
The New York Times' Jackie Calmes: "Long History for Proposal on Mortgages by McCain " LINK
The New York Daily News' Michael Goodwin: "Mac's Gotta Act Now He Needs Quick Strike Before Bam Builds Insurmountable Lead" LINK
Bloomberg's Heidi Przybyla: "McCain's Michigan Woes May Widen As Economy Hits Working Class" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's Elizabeth Holmes: "McCain Still Targets Pennsylvania, Ohio" LINK
The Boston Herald's Michael Gerson: "Credit due John McCain for health plan" LINK
The Chicago Sun-Times' Michael Sneed: "McCain at His Best Talking National Security" LINK
The Washington Times' Joseph Curl: "McCain Pledges Homeowner Help" LINK
The Washington Times' Stephen Dinan: "McCain Goes on Offensive Early" LINK
The Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet: "McCain Nails Details, but No Game-Changer" LINK
The Associated Press: "McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair" LINK
2008: Obama:
The Los Angeles Times' Nicholas Riccardi: "Denver Wants Pro-Obama Mural Removed" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's Brody Mullins and T.W. Farnam: "Group's Ad Blames Crisis On Democrats" LINK
The Politico's Alexander Burns: "Final Score: Obama Wins The Day" LINK
The Washington Post's Jon Cohen and Dan Balz: "Obama Leading In Ohio, Poll Finds" LINK
The Boston Herald's Joe Dwinell: "Pollster: Don't believe the Dem hype" LINK
The Politico's Staff Writers: "McCain Proposes Bailout For Homeowners" LINK
The Politico's Roger Simon: "McCain Loses By Not Winning" LINK
Time Magazines' Michael Scherer: "Poll: Obama Gains in States That Went for Bush" LINK
Time Magazine's David Von Drehle: "In Town-Hall Debate, Obama Holds the Ball — and the Advantage" LINK
The Washington Times' S.A. Miller: "Voter Fraud Task Force Raids Office Backing Obama" LINK
The Washington Times: "Obama Misspeaks on Computer Inventor" LINK
The Hills' Michael O'Brien: "Democrats Spend Grandly In The Grand Canyon State" LINK
The Associated Press: "FEC: Obama funds from abroad may total $3.3M" LINK
2008: Palin:
The Wall Street Journal's Amy Chozick: "Palin Meets Resistance Among Clinton Backers" LINK
The Boston Globe's Foon Rhee: "Palin on Fox News Channel, again" LINK
The Associated Press: "State to review Palin per diem payments, taxes" LINK
2008: Voters:
USA Today's Kathleen Gray: "Arab-American electorate holds political sway in Mich." LINK
2008: Economy:
The Washington Post's Nancy Trejos: "Retirement Savings Lose $2 Trillion in 15 Months" LINK
The Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey: "AIG Spa Trip Fuels Fury on Hill" LINK
The Washington Post's Neil Irwin: "Moves by Fed, Europeans Fail To Calm Investors" LINK