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By Mark C. Eades - Oct 7th, 2008 at 11:36 pm EDT

A CBS News snap poll of uncommitted voters shows Obama beat McCain in tonight's debate 40% to 26%, with 30% calling it a draw. Meanwhile, a CNN poll shows Obama beat McCain by a whopping 54% to 30%. Not a bad night's work for "that one."

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McCain/Palin Rallies Get Ugly: Obama Hatred Turns to Open Racism and Death Threats

By Mark C. Eades - Oct 7th, 2008 at 11:20 pm EDT

As the McCain/Palin campaign gets uglier, so do the crowds at their rallies. Stoked by what the Associated Press called "racially tinged" attacks on Barack Obama particularly from Sarah Palin, by Republican anger at Obama's surge toward victory, and probably by their own deep-seated bigotry, the crowds at McCain/Palin events have begun expressing their Obama hatred in increasingly disturbing terms.

As eyewitness Dana Milbank observes in the Washington Post, Palin's line of attack on Obama at an Oct. 6 rally in Clearwater, Florida, prompted one man to shout, "Kill him!" (a secret service investigation is currently underway in response to this incident, which is hardly good press for the campaign). Others at McCain/Palin events have shouted "treason" and even "terrorist!" at the mention of Obama's name, as the Huffington Post discusses in detail. At the Clearwater event, as Dana Milbank observes, Palin's media-bashing likewise produced a hateful response from the crowd, who turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse while others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial slur at an African American sound man and told him, "Sit down, boy" (see also ABC News).

Of course one of this looks good for the McCain/Palin campaign, which is coming increasingly to resemble a lynch mob.

Mark C. Eades
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Time put to the nails in John's Coffin

By Pale Rider - Oct 7th, 2008 at 9:05 pm EDT

Tonight is the opportunity Barack has needed to finally put McCain in his grave. I sincerely hope that Barack doesn't allow any of John's lies to stand. Veterans issues, trickle down economic voodoo, $800 billion in "new" Obama spending, McCain's health care "tax break"... all of these need to be pounded time and again.

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14:35 ET Dow -156.27 at 9796.05, Nasdaq -41.59 at 1821.37, S&P -18.96 at 1037.93:

By Rob-33704 - Oct 7th, 2008 at 2:48 pm EDT

From Market Report:

Stocks recovers some losses, but still post a sharp decline. The Dow was down as much as 362 points, compared to its current decline of 156 points.

[BRIEFING.COM] Morgan Stanley (MS 17.91, -5.64) pares some losses on reports that the company said the investment it is receiving from Mitsubishi will close imminently, according to Reuters.

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Royal Bank of Scotland Shares Decline Â£6 billion

By Rob-33704 - Oct 7th, 2008 at 10:16 am EDT

The Edinburgh-based bank had seen its share price plunge into double figures at one point this morning, before recovering to sit at 110.6p at 1.30pm.

It comes after 20 per cent, and more than £6 billion, was shaved off its share price yesterday in what was its biggest full-day decline in 20 years.

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Bank of America cuts dividend by 50%

By Rob-33704 - Oct 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am EDT

Bank of America preannounces lower-than-expected earnings, plans to raise $10 billion in common stock offering, cuts dividend by 50%

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Keyser Soze Heists Main Street Out of $700 Billion

By Rob-33704 - Oct 6th, 2008 at 4:31 pm EDT

The Market Oracle says:

"The greatest heist in history took place on Friday when congress was CONNED into signing away $700 billion accompanied by SOME $120 billion of pork.

The Usual Suspects, Paulson, Bernanke and Cox (the Chair of SEC) over the last 10 days have proceeded to spin their verbal scare story to both the Democrats and Republicans into joining forces to hand over a ransom of $700 billion in the form of a blank check to the aid bankrupt banks to off load losses onto the US tax payer."

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Wall Street hits 5-year lows

By Rob-33704 - Oct 6th, 2008 at 4:03 pm EDT