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PPP Poll: Florida Tightens
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Florida finds Sen. Barack Obama just barely edging Sen. John McCain, 48% to 47%.

Key finding: “There has been some movement in John McCain’s direction with both white voters and Hispanics over the last three weeks. McCain’s margin has increased five points with whites, from 52-41 to 55-39. Hispanic voters, who have swung back and forth both in PPP’s polls and those of most organizations conducting surveys in Florida, are supporting McCain 50-46 after going for Obama by the exact same margin in our previous poll.”

Late Late Nite FDL: Almost Irrelevant
Yes indeed, America, Bush is almost irrelevant. What better time could there be to savor a little Frank Zappa and ask yourself, is Bush the Muffin Man? What’s on your mind tonight?

Frank Zappa “Muffin Man”

Yes indeed, America, Bush is almost irrelevant. What better time could there be to enjoy a little Frank Zappa and ask yourself, is Bush the Muffin Man?

What’s on your mind tonight?

Conservatives’ Dangerous Plan for Health Care
Instead of working to guarantee health care for everyone, conservatives are pushing for a policy that will deprive people of coverage.

Biden for Afghanistan
Senator Biden has been repeatedly criticized by Senator McCain for calling for the dismemberment of Iraq. McCain charged Biden with saying that “that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries,” and called the plan “one of the…

Walking a Fine Line
The Pentagon confirms to TPM Election Central that military officials told the Obama campaign he could not visit Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany yesterday with campaign aides in tow because that would violate DOD regs. “We informed the Obama…

Last Chance
Today’s the deadline for applications for our Fall cycle TPM internship. Find all the details here….

Rick Davis: Palin drives ?liberal feminists? crazy because she?s ?attractive,? ?competent,? and ?happy.?
On Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis claimed that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drives “liberal feminists” crazy because “she’s a conservative Republican” who is “raising five kids” while serving as governor. Davis then agreed when Bennett suggested that what drives feminists “more crazy” is that Palin is “very attractive,” “very […]

On Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis claimed that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drives “liberal feminists” crazy because “she’s a conservative Republican” who is “raising five kids” while serving as governor. Davis then agreed when Bennett suggested that what drives feminists “more crazy” is that Palin is “very attractive,” “very competent,” and “very happy”:

BENNETT: I don’t know which drives them more crazy. Let me give you three things that I think drives them crazy, and you don’t have to comment. That’s she’s very attractive. That she’s very competent or that she’s very happy. You know, as a human being.

DAVIS: Yeah, all of the above.

Listen here:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has taken to attacking feminists over Palin as well. On the stump yesterday, he declared, “My friends, it’s remarkable the comments of the feminist left about Sarah Palin.”

Sen. John McCain Speaks in Bensalem, Penn.
SPEAKER: SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ. [*] MCCAIN: It’s great to be here in Pennsylvania. We need to win Pennsylvania on November 4th, and with your help — we’re going to win Pennsylvania, and bring real change to Washington, DC. I heard that Senator Obama was showing some love to the Rays down in…

Former Thai Prime Minister Sentenced to Jail in Absentia
BANGKOK, Oct. 21 — Thailand’s Supreme Court Tuesday found controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra guilty in absentia of abusing his office and sentenced him to two years in jail.

Believers in Obama
Telling a friend that the love of his life is a phony and dangerous is not likely to get him to change his mind. But it may cost you a friend. It is much the same story with true believers in Barack Obama. They have made up their minds and not only don’t want to be confused by the facts, they resent being told the facts. An e-mail from a reader mentioned trying to tell his sister why he was voting against Obama but, when he tried to argue some facts, she cut him short: “You don’t like him and I do!” she said. End of discussion.

Your Salary in 2016 — The Big Difference Between a McCain or Obama Administration
Middle-class families will earn about $13,000 more in eight years if Obama wins and $5,000 if McCain wins.

Porn’s Dirty, Dangerous Secret
There are a finite number of ways that human bodies can fit together. So pornmakers resort to sexualizing degradation to stay “cutting edge.”

Redistribution: From Joe the Plumber to Robert Rubin
Okay, as we all now know, almost everything about Joe the Plumber is a lie. He doesn’t own a plumbing business and apparently is not even licensed as a plumber, but he does raise a legitimate concern about “spreading the…

Labor Group’s Mailer Blitz Hammers McCain And Bush For Wrecking Our Economy
The Obama-backing labor federation Change to Win is about to drop some 750,000 mailers in the battlegrounds slamming John McCain and George W. Bush for having “wrecked our economy,” with a fun play on the question, “how do they look…