CNN BREAKING NEWS!
-- Sen. John McCain will participate in tonight's presidential debate.
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The battle is on! John McCain and Barack Obama debate face-to-face
for the first time. Watch the debate live tonight on CNN
and CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/LIVE
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The battle is on! John McCain and Barack Obama debate face-to-face
for the first time. Watch the debate live tonight on CNN
and CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/LIVE
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..."DRIVING THE DAY: Now it's Senator McCain who needs a bailout. Markets were down sharply around the world overnight and the conventional wisdom turned against Senator McCain, after a tentative bailout deal among leaders unraveled as he arrived in D.C.
Negotiators meet again at the Capitol at 11:30 a.m. A Senate leadership official claims they're 'close.' AND MCCAIN, who had not showed his cards, WORKED OVERNIGHT TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR THE DEAL.
That would get him off the hook of his Kamikaze vow to boycott tonight's opening presidential debate – 9 p.m. Eastern at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford..."
Mike Allen's Politico Playbook Daily Update