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ABC News Reporter Jake Tapper's Political Punch Blog has a report on Sen. Barack Obama's push-back on John McCain's description of his tax policies, Tapper begins with a quote from Obama in Florida, here is the whole report: "The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich," Obama said in Sarasota, Fla., yesterday. "I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That's the American dream, that's the American way, that's terrific.

Yesterday, Barack Obama's campaign asked his supporters to “take the day” off via their Web site and YouTube. An effort to make sure that expected lines would not serve as an obstacle to voters and to use the extra bodies as volunteers so they could make calls and help with the get-out-the-vote efforts. Nine states already have ‘state holidays’ on Election Day. We, as a country, have national holidays that in theory give everyone in the country the day off, although no industry really shuts down and gives their entire workforce a collective day off. But if you take the...