Below The Beltway

Still no sign that Tuesday’s debate moved the needle in the Presidential election.
Rasmussen has Obama leading McCain by seven points:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 52% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. This is the first update based entirely on interviews conducted after the second Presidential [...]

When you look at statistics like this, it’s no wonder that McCain is losing:
Barack Obama spent $3.3 million on TV ads on Monday alone—a remarkable one-day expenditure that more than doubled rival John McCain’s spending that day, according to the ad tracking firm, Campaign Media Analysis Group.
The Obama campaign has been ratcheting up its ad [...]

It’s beginning to sound like John McCain is regretting the fact that his negative campaign has exposed some very raw emotions:
LAKEVILLE, Minn., Oct. 10 — At the end of perhaps the most charged and negative week of the presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain sought to tone down his rhetoric toward Sen. Barack Obama even as [...]

Ron Paul spoke on Fox Business Channel about Henry Paulson’s plan to have the government buy ownership stakes in US banks:

Where’s the rest of the GOP on this one ? Where’s John McCain ?

Late yesterday, a panel of Alaska Legislature released a report finding that Governor Palin had abused her power in seeking to fire a state official:
An Alaska state legislative investigator found yesterday that Gov. Sarah Palin abused executive power when she and her husband engaged in a campaign to oust her former brother-in-law from the state [...]

It was, perhaps inevitable, but it looks like Sarah Palin will be appearing on Saturday Night Live:
SOCCER moms and Joe Sixpacks, listen up. Get your beer, mooseburgers and caribou dips ready. Sarah Palin is doing “Saturday Night Live.” Not Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin doing “Saturday Night Live.” But the Sarah Herself. She has already [...]

Newsweek is out with a new poll that gives Barack Obama an eleven-point lead over John McCain:
The global financial meltdown has caused a dramatic shift in the 2008 presidential race, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. With four weeks left in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama now leads John McCain by double digits, 52 percent [...]

John McCain may be the war hero, but active duty military members haven’t been throwing money his way:
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Ron Paul have little in common politically, except their opposition to the Iraq war.
Both top a new list of presidential candidates receiving campaign contributions from people who work for the four branches of [...]

A new Fox News poll shows Obama with a seven point lead over John McCain:
Barack Obama leads John McCain by 46 percent to 39 percent, according to a FOX News national registered voter poll released Friday. Two weeks ago Obama led by 45 percent to 39 percent (Sept. 22-23).
Obama’s advantage comes mainly from doing better [...]

I’m sure this will get him a bunch of hate mail, but Christopher Buckley has come out for Barack Obama:
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I’m libertarian. I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend [...]