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The Alaska governor represents a new sort of female politician. Instead of Hillary’s Rodham Clinton’s out-policy-wonking the boys, Palin offers anti-elite common sense.

The folks over at The Corner think Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin went off base a bit last night when she blamed the housing crisis on predatory lenders. They wanted her to go after irresponsible borrowers, the Community Reinvestment Act – they call it the Carter/Clinton CRA – and the Democratic supporters of Fannie [...]

They will raise your taxes.
It’s an old Republican line of attack, but Obama’s latest ad throws it in Sen. John McCain’s face.

I don’t really have much to add to Laura and Matt’s takes. Just one quick item worth mentioning.
These two things cannot coexist: the McCain-Palin insistence on deferring to ground commanders in war and the McCain-Palin insistence that the “surge strategy,” as Palin put it, is necessary in Afghanistan.

It’s safe to say that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin far exceeded the extremely low expectations that most people had for her going into Thursday’s debate.
She made a real effort to go out of her way to play up the “folksy mom/Joe Six-Pack/Washington outsider” angle. Some will find that annoying. But if the anecdotes appearing in [...]

Sen. John McCain devises ingenious plan to prevent terrorists from putting words in Gov. Sarah Palin’s mouth.

DETROIT, Mich. — Addressing a boisterous crowd of 28,000 that filled the street in front of the Detroit Institute of Arts on Sunday, Sen. Joe Biden touted the support of a “real hockey mom.”
Biden, as well as Sen. Barack Obama, was introduced by Denise Ilitch, former president of a company that managed the Detroit Red [...]

Sen. Barack Obama has only one event today, a rally in Dunedin, Florida, and the rest of his schedule is cleared for debate prep. His campaign, however, is not taking a day off from general election combat. Today Sen. Joe Biden is thrashing Republicans in a Cincinnati national security address.
With the first debate on [...]

In Michigan today, Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, seized on Sen. John McCain’s odd claim that the fundamentals of the American economy remain strong.
After Fannie, Freddie, Lehman and a market dive to start the week, few would describe the economy as strong. Biden hit this point to depict McCain as weirdly out of [...]

Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has an important reason for Americans to vote Democratic this year: Accountability for war crimes.
Speaking in Florida on Wednesday, as the political world focused on his Republican counterpart, vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin, Biden said a Democratic administration would use a “fine-toothed comb” to investigate — [...]