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- The Washington Post endorsed Barack Obama for president today, as did The Los Angeles Times, which hasn't endorsed a candidate since 1972, and The Chicago Tribune, which hasn't endorsed a Democrat for president in its 161-year history.
- Although the Supreme Court ruled that the Ohio GOP has no standing in its case to sue the Ohio secretary of state over registration fraud, actual vote suppression -- you know, the kind of fraud that matters -- is being perpetrated by the local GOP in Montana. Democracy!
- An Intrade investor was caught today inflating John McCain's Intrade price by sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars into McCain shares.
- The increasingly irrelevant Sarah Palin hasn't given up the cause of fighting for the cause of real, authentic Americans. Clarifying remarks from a Greensboro, North Carolina rally yesterday in which the Republican VP nominee told the assembled that they were "pro-Americans," Palin explained that "we believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." The Greensboro rally also featured an assault upon a journalist who was attempting to interview an Obama supporter in attendance.
- Not fading into obscurity is Bobby Jindal, who is headlining a big conservative fundraiser in Iowa next month.
- Mike Allen reports in Politico that dlection night coverage might be shorter than in previous years if a landslide occurs: "The quandary is highlighted by Virginia, a state that has not voted Democratic for president since 1964 but where Obama is now leading in polls. There is no realistic McCain electoral college strategy that does not depend on winning the Old Dominion." See Sam's take here.
- Joshua Green has more on the sweet deal McCain got for his own personal cell phone tower, and it looks even fishier than before.
- Wednesday's final presidential debate drew 56 million viewers -- less than the second or VP debates, but more than the first.
- I'm not really sure why every other month or so rumors that Colin Powell might endorse Barack Obama are treated as such a big deal. After all, the moderate/realist/not-crazy wing of the GOP he represents left the building a long, long time ago. For what it's worth, he might just pull the trigger on Meet The Press this Sunday, and the Obama camp seems pretty psyched about it.
- Would you pay $15 million for a Sarah Palin email? Maybe she should auction them on Ebay and throw in the governor's plane as a bonus.
--Mori Dinauer
