By: Suzanne Rosenberg In today's news from newspaper campaign blogs (see links at bottom): Tina Fey to meet Gov. Palin? McCain shows up on Letterman and reaches out to Hispanic voters in four "undecided" states, and MIT looks at the Electoral College.
Gov. Palin, Tina Fey meet up?On Politics
USA Today
By Mark Memmott
USA Today?s Mark Memmott reports that during the taping of his rescheduled appearance on CBS-TV?s Late Night with David Letterman yesterday, John McCain confirmed that his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, will make an appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Memmott of On Politics, asks if she will meet up with Tina Fey, and if so, ?Will America be able to tell them apart??
McCain shows up on Letterman, finallyBy Mark Memmott
More on McCain?s taping with David Letterman which aired last night at 11:30 p.m.: McCain said he ?screwed up? by not showing up to the originally scheduled Letterman taping and then going to see Couric before leaving New York for Washington. He also insisted to Letterman that Sarah Palin is ready to lead us through the next 9/11 attack and that she has inspired all Americans and represents what we need now. McCain also took the opportunity to apologize for the media circus he has caused for ?Joe the Plumber? since Wednesday night?s debate saying, ?Joe if you?re watching, I?m sorry.? He added, ?From what I read he is taking it pretty well.?
McCain reaches out to Hispanic voters in ?toss-up? statesThe Trail
The Washington Post
By Ed O?Keefe
A new commercial that will air in Spanish in four states and that is designed to reach possible McCain holdouts will focus on Barack Obama?s inability to handle a crisis. In the ad, which will air in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico, focuses on Obama?s tax proposals and suggests that Obama?s tax proposals and health care mandate make him a ?risky? choice -- especially for those needing jobs and for small businesses. Ed O?Keefe points out that McCain?s recent English-language ads have had similar messages, but targeting small business owners is savvy microtargeting. Projections hold that Hispanic-owned businesses will earn $388.7 billion in revenues this year, with big increases expected through 2012. An Obama spokesman, Federico de Jesus, responded to the ad saying that ?This new attack ad joins the long list of falsehoods and distortions that the American people resoundingly reject.?
McCain?s Automated CallsWashington Wire
The Wall Street Journal
By Laura Meckler
The McCain campaign is blanketing battleground states with automatic phone calls that accuse Democrat Barack Obama of working closely with a domestic terrorist (William Ayers), of holding extreme views on abortion (being pro-choice) and of ?putting Hollywood above America." This refers to an accusation that Obama spends more time at Hollywood fundraisers than working on the financial crisis. Meckler has the actual phone calls on her site, the Washington Wire.
MIT looks at the Electoral CollegeThe Caucus
The New York Times
By Leslie Wayne
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is holding a conference today titled, ?To Keep or Not Keep the Electoral College.? The head of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT, Alexander S. Belenky asserted that ?there is no consensus among mathematicians, systems scientists, and political scientists studying the Electoral College on whether it can satisfactorily serve the United States in the 21st century, especially after two close elections in 2000 ad 2004.? The conference website contains an ?Electoral College Quiz? for those who are interested, reports Leslie Wayne of the Caucus.
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