Obama should be defeated in tonight's debate

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_camp_taunts_Unsteadyerratic_McCain_desperately_needs_debate_win.html
Anything less than a convincing victory for McCain ought to be seen as a game changer. John McCain continually holds an advantage on polling about national security, and he's consistently seen as the better "Commander in Chief".

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/09/21/debateforum.html
Vanderbilt professor John Geer: "McCain has an edge in this debate, since the topic is foreign policy. Obama needs to show his own understanding of the international affairs."

What the Republicans are offering

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/26/135017/460

Ethics Reform - Needed Now More than Ever

Obama unveils ethics plan, highlights plan to protect government from lobbyist influence:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/22/1434118.aspx

The Change We Need in Washington:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6159046/The-Change-We-Need-in-Washington

Lobbyists and Bush campaign aides running McCain's campaign:
http://www.mclobbyist.com/

McCain adviser Rick Davis paid $2 million to lobby for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html

Adviser Rick Davis says, "This campaign is not about issues":
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/mccain-manager-rick-davis_n_123284.html

House, Senate Democrats warn "No Blank Check" for government bailout:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080922/pl_afp/usfinancebankingpolitics_080922215640

McCain campaign criticizes journalists for asking questions:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13747.html

CNN Poll: Americans blame Republicans for economic problems:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/22/republicans-blamed-obama-gains-over-financial-crisis/

McCain wants to run healthcare like the failed banking system:
http://www.contingencies.org/septoct08/mccain.pdf

McCain campaign strategist serves as lobbyist for the Russian government:
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/black_hole_of_lobbying_disclos.html#more

Obama-Biden: What Women Want

Kim Gandy of National Organization of Women says group set to endorse Obama-Biden
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94658965

10 Easy Ways to Support Obama
http://obama.3cdn.net/56d7862be8e614eef6_b6m6bndg2.pdf

Compare McCain-Palin to Obama-Biden - their record on women's issues
http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/Nikki/Constituency%20Groups/Women/Women%20Compare.pdf

Obama, Biden, Clinton and others to highlight push for work-life balance, women's equality in the workplace, healthcare
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/09/obama_biden_clinton_kick_up_wo.html

Obama-Biden - position statement on women's issues
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/womenissues

Blog - Rape and women's issues in Alaska - Palin's despicable record
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/73315/7580/126/596871

Alaska newspaper highlights concerns about women's safety, failure of Palin administration to act
http://dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/8825231p-8726532c.html

Biden wrote Violence Against Women Act - how its passage has reduced domestic, sexual violence
http://www.nrcdv.org/docs/Mailings/2004/NRCDVNovVAWA.pdf

The economy - today's financial market plunge

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ethics

http://econ4obama.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuT5zN2SPI (Obama speech on financial market regulation)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/politics/27text-obama.html?pagewanted=print (for text of Obama speech)

http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/HQpress/Fact%20Sheet%20NY%20Economic%20Speech%20FINAL.pdf economic fact sheet, one page summary

http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/HQpress/Statements%20of%20Support%20Cooper%20Union%20FINAL.pdf for statement from economic experts on Obama's positions

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/09/15/pm_gordon_commentary/ for historical perspective

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93873681 for info on the Fed chief's position, and concerns about credit crisis

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/ for today's financial markets news summary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/15/ST2008041500097.html for links between war and credit crisis