Tina Fey was always the inevitable choice to impersonate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, and on Saturday night she did so. Live. [NBC]
Polls: it's narrowing. Gallup's daily tracking poll has McCain 47%, Obama 45%, while in two key swing states, two different pictures: Obama opens up a double-digit lead in Iowa, while McCain draws even in Minnesota. According to Electoral-vote.com, which makes electoral college calculations based on the latest state polls, McCain is the favourite for the first time.
The economy is going to hell in a handcart, but Barack Obama is doing rather well, money-wise: the campaign broke its own records in August, raising $66m and attracting 500,000 first-time donors. Although the credit should probably go to Sarah Palin. [New York Times]
"Throughout her career, Ms Palin has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and blurred the line between government and personal grievance": in case you missed it, here's the New York Times's encyclopaedic weekend account of how Palin governed Wasilla and Alaska. [New York Times]
Crowd sizes at the McCain/Palin rallies might not have been quite as big as originally claimed. And Palin hasn't actually visited Iraq at all, it turns out. That Ireland visit, meanwhile, was really a refuelling stop. (UPDATE: The McCain campaign's latest version is that she did get about a quarter of a mile inside Iraq.)
Guess who thinks John McCain has gone a step too far in bending the truth in his campaign advertisements? Yes, Karl Rove. That Karl Rove. [Politico]
It's a safe bet that the photographer responsible for the cover art for this month's big piece on McCain and war in the Atlantic Monthly won't be getting any further work from that magazine... [Gothamist]
Here's an interview from earlier this year with David Foster Wallace, whose suicide was reported this weekend, about covering John McCain — and the press pack — during the 2000 election campaign. [Wall Street Journal]
