The Note's Must-Reads
The First Stop in Politics -- It's What You Need to Know!
October 24, 2008— -- 2008: ABC NEWS VIDEOS:
ABC News Video: "Robocaller Hangs Up on Job" LINK
ABC News Video: "McCain's 'Joe the Plumber' Tour" LINK
ABC News Video: "Angry 911 Caller: McCain's Brother" LINK
ABC News Video: "McCain Gets a Little Help from His Trumps" LINK
ABC News Video: "Obama Sticker Wasn't Enough" LINK
2008: McCAIN and OBAMA:
ABC News Analysis by Gary Langer: "Daily Tracking Poll: Three in 10 Plan Early Vote, Favoring Obama By Wide Margin" LINK
The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller and Jeff Zeleny: "McCain and Obama Hurl Broadsides at Each Other Over Taxes and Jobs" LINK
The Washington Post's Dan Balz: "Polls Point to Struggle for McCain - Obama Leads in Battlegrounds, but GOP Nominee Plans to Keep Fighting" LINK
The Washington Post's David Montgomery: "A Happiness Gap: Doomacrats And Republigrins" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Mark Z. Barabak and Bob Drogin: "McCain, Obama Both Target President Bush" LINK
Newsweek Magazine's Michael Isikoff: "History of the 'S' Bomb: McCain isn't the first Arizonan to use 'socialist' epithet" LINK
Time Magazine's Michael Scherer: "7 Things That Could Go Wrong on Election Day" LINK
Bloomberg's Kim Chipman and Hans Nichols: "McCain, Obama Make Populist Appeals On Economy In Swing States" LINK
Politico's Chris Frates: "Obama Outspends McCain In Health Care Ads" LINK
USA Today's Fredreka Schouten: "Political Spending Races Toward Record $5.3B" LINK
The Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel: "What Are The Candidates Hiding?" LINK
2008: McCAIN:
ABC News Political Radar: "Report: Did John McCain's Brother Make 911 Call About Traffic?" LINK
The New York Times' Adam Nagourney: "In McCain's Uphill Battle, Winning Is an Option" LINK
The Politico's Jonathan Martin, Mike Allen and John F. Harris: "Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad" LINK
The Politico's Lisa Lerer: "McCain kicks off 'Joe the Plumber' tour" LINK
The New York Daily News' Richard Sisk: "John McCain Turns Attacks Against New Target - President Bush" LINK
The Boston Globe's Foon Rhee: "McCain Sets Election Night Event" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's Amy Chozick and Nick Timiraos: "McCain To Launch Fresh Attack On Obama's Tax Plan" LINK
The Politico's Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen and John F. Harris: "Blame Game: GOP Forms Circular Firing Squad" LINK
2008: OBAMA:
ABC News' Jake Tapper: "Republicans Carlson, McClellan Announce Support for Obama" LINK
ABC News' Jake Tapper: "Indianapolis, Then Honolulu" LINK
ABC News' Rick Klein: "Cash Edge Reveals Obama Paths to Presidency" LINK
The New York Times' Jim Rutenberg and Marjorie Connelly: "Polls Show Obama Gaining Among Bush Voters" LINK
The Washington Post's Michael Abramowitz and Robert Barnes: "As an Issue, Taxes Favor Obama - Polls Lean Toward Democrat on a Traditional GOP Strength" LINK
The Politico: "Final score: Obama wins the day" LINK
McClatchy Newspapers: "Andy Griffith endorses Barack Obama in Ron Howard vid" LINK
The New York Daily News' James Gordon Meek: "Barack Obama Has Big Challenge For Votes In West Virginia" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Joel Rubin: "Bratton Records Phone Message Supporting Obama" LINK
Newsweek Magazine's Richard Wolffe: "The Obama Show: Behind next week's must-see political TV" LINK
The Chicago Sun-Times' Abdon M. Pallasch: "Obama makes stop in Indy before visiting grandmother" LINK
The Washington Times' Jennifer Harper: "Obama presents history-making choice" LINK
The Boston Globe's Foon Rhee: "McClellan Endorses Obama" LINK
Bloomberg's Indira A.R. Lakshmanan: "Obama Benefits As Blacks, Democrats, First-Timers Vote Early" LINK
The USA Today's David Jackson: "2nd Former Bush Official Endorses Obama" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Weisman: "Obama Assists Down-Ticket Democrats" LINK
2008: BIDEN:
ABC News Political Radar: "Biden Blasts McCain for Obama/Bush comparison" LINK
The New York Times' John M. Broder: "The Long Run: Father's Tough Life an Inspiration for Biden" LINK
The Washington Times' Wesley Pruden: "Good old Joe lifts the curtain" LINK
The Washington Times' R. Emmett Tyrell: "Biden's brain scan" LINK
The Washington Times' Cal Thomas: "Joe Biden's gift" LINK
The Washington Times' Clarence Page: "'Obama-Palin' generation?" LINK
2008: PALIN:
ABC News' Jake Tapper: "Palin on Special Needs Kids" LINK
ABC News' Jake Tapper: "Opie Cunningham Weighs In As Well" LINK
ABC News' Jake Tapper: "Campbell Brown: Stop Covering Palin's Wardrobe Controversy; Women Are Unfairly Held to Higher Standard on Appearance" LINK
ABC News' Political Radar: "Palin Guarantees Win in Pennsylvania" LINK
ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala and Lisa Chinn: "Palin Challenges Obama's "Rhetorical Flourishes" Defense of Biden" LINK
The Washington Post's Lois Romano: "Ideology Aside, This Has Been the Year of the Woman" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Charles Piller: "Palin appointed friends and donors to key posts in Alaska, records show" LINK
Time Magazine's Kate Betts : "Sarah Palin's $150,000 Crime Against Fashion" LINK
The USA Today's Ken Dilanian: "Spending Rose In Palin's Alaska Administrations" LINK
2008: VOTERS/VOTING/POLLS:
The New York Times' Michael Falcone and Michael Moss: "Acorn Overstated Tally of Newly Registered Voters" LINK
The Washington Post's Steven A. Holmes: "Early Voters in Fla. Find Long Lines, a Bit of Muddle" LINK
The Politico's Avi Zenilman: "Avalanche! Early voting at record pace" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's June Kronholz: "Voting Snafus Rare But Worrisome" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's Elizabeth Holmes: "Polls Show Race Tightening In Florida" LINK
USA Today's Matt Kelley: "Groups Spend Millions Bypassing TV, Radio" LINK
USA Today's Dennis Wagner: "Immigration Still A 'Political Hot Potato' In Arizona" LINK
2008: ECONOMY:
ABC News Economy Section: LINK
ABC News' Scott Mayerowitz: "Bailed-Out but Still Giving Bonuses" LINK
Associated Press' Alex Kennedy: "Asian Stocks Sink; Dollar at 13-Year Low Vs. Yen" LINK
Associated Press' Martin Crutsinger: "Greenspan Says Flaw in Market System" LINK
Associated Press: "U.S. Mulls $40 B Plan to Help Forestall Foreclosures: Report" LINK