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With the collapse of the financial market, the creative economy becomes more vital for regions and cities to cultivate.
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Here is a great commercial about our national debt from Scott Kleeb, Democratic candidate for Senate in Nebraska.

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Popular Progressive has some information on the Wellstone Mental Healh Parity bill that passed in the bailout bill last week.
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Yesterday, Bruce Springsteen performed at an Obama rally in Philadelphia.
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The best analysis that I read this morning about the debate came from DemFromCT at Daily Kos…

• Joe Biden is the story for me, not Sarah Palin. I was delighted but not surprised with his remarkably strong and empathetic performance. Joe is a strong Democrat, and a proud family man. He’s smart, he’s experienced, and he can <> be disciplined. If there’s a candidate who exceeded realistic expectations, it was Biden who knocked it out of the park and exposed Palin for the attractive, but callow, candidate she really is. His discussion of his injured family was the deal-maker for the audience, a moment Palin handled awkwardly afterwards in her response.
• Sarah Palin’s expectations were ridiculously low, set by the punditocracy that, as Jon Stewart might say, is hurting this country. Get a grip, folks. No one cares whether Andrea Mitchell thinks Palin reached her (Mitchell’s) expectations. They want to know whether Sarah Palin can help the family pay the mortgage and pay the college tuition bill.
• Two completely separate conversations go on about Sarah Palin. She’s lost thoughtful conservatives and independents, and Democrats were never her audience. Social conservatives and wingers like Pat Buchanan may love her, but who cares? Buchanan, I will remind the media, was a fringe candidate who did very poorly when he ran. Palin’s audience may love her but they are a small portion of the electorate and they do not count any more. This is not a base election. It will take a loss for the media to get it.

Here’s my liveblog from last night in case you missed it.

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Last night I wrote that Sarah Palin completely ignored the questions from the moderator.

Chris Matthews picked this up as well and was scared by Palin’s comment that the VP should have more power.

Not only did she say I’m not going to do any more interviews, it seemed, but she was saying, I’m not going to listen to uh Gwen Ifill tonight. She said I’m not going to uh give the answers the moderator wants to ask for. What an extraordinary statement. I’m not going to play by the rules and when I get elected I want more power in the office than it’s had before. Hmm. Not too much humility here.

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Here’s a key point from last night’s debate and key argument of this election.

How are McCain’s policies different than Bush’s?

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I will be liveblogging the VP debate on Twitter and will post it here after the debate.

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Obama’s poll numbers are rising across in pretty much every battleground state. Yesterday, polls showed Obama getting over 50% of the vote in the traditional battleground states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

FLORIDA: Obama 51, McCain 43

OHIO: Obama 50, McCain 42

PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54, McCain 39

The reason for Obama’s bump has a lot to do with the economy becoming such a big issues. However, Sarah Palin is helping Obama’s poll numbers out as well.

Public Policy Polling surveyed four states immediately after the Republican convention and then again three weeks later. In those states, Gov. Sarah Palin’s favorability has dropped by a net average of 12 points, and Sen. Barack Obama’s standing in the horse race has improved by an average of seven points.

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