10/1 Roundup: More Bailout Fallout, Early Voting, Sarah Palin Isn't Reading This.

Submitted by Sam duPont on 10/1/08

- The bailout bill is still ruling the news cycle. The Senate will vote on a slightly-altered version of the bill today, and it will likely pass. The new version includes tax breaks-- particularly for businesses-- that will probably cost a few Democratic votes, but should bring enough Republicans on board for it to pass the House on Thursday or Friday.

- Politico makes a list of twelve members of the House who just might switch their votes.

- David Leonhardt has a great essay in the Times today taking the broad view on the financial trouble.

- Tom Friedman fears for his country if the bailout bill doesn't pass.

- FT Columnist Martin Wolf says we're watching the disintegration of our financial system.

- Newsweek does an interesting investigation of how Obama and McCain developed their views of the world.

- Voting begins in Ohio today! Republicans fought to make it harder to vote, but lost the battle. Greg Giroux at CQ Politics says early voting makes voter-turnout strategies a whole lot more complicated. Brian Montopoli at Horserace looks at how early voting could help Obama in decisive states.

- New polls suggest that Sarah Palin is a leading cause behind John McCain's drop over the past week. As someone who reads a lot of news, her latest gaffe-- in which she can't name a single newspaper or magazine that she reads regularly-- horrifies me to no end.

- CNN did the research, and it turns out you can, in fact, see Russia from one tiny island in Alaska.  And no, Sarah Palin has never been there.

- Operating mostly below the radar, Barack Obama has been waging a ferocious campaign of attack ads on the radio. 

- Everyone in a Scranton, PA diner (except for one man whose arm gets slapped down by his wife) is voting for Barack Obama.  Fox News calls it a split decision.

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