To meet massive demand for today’s paper, the New York Times (NYT) will print another 50,000 copies for distribution at Grand Central Station, Penn Station, Port Authority Bus Terminal, and other “select locations,” a spokesperson tells MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka.
The company also saw record Web traffic yesterday — 55.1 million page views, beating its previous record [...]

From an economic summit to a Detroit bailout, Obama or McCain will have to jump right on the U.S. economic crisis.
The winner on Tuesday, Nov. 4, won’t get much of a chance to rest on his laurels—or rest at all, for that matter. The calendar may show 11 weeks until Inauguration Day, but the President-elect [...]

John McCain campaigns in Defiance, Ohio. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters
The visibly wilting Republican chooses Ohio to launch his final campaign blitz - but mascot Joe the Plumber is strangely absent
Defiance, a picture postcard town in north-west Ohio, takes its name from a fort built here in 1794 by a General “Mad” Anthony Wayne. The general was [...]

Barack Obama’s appearance on US cable channel Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart pulled in the series’ highest ever rating on Wednesday night.
Obama’s interview, which aired between 11pm and 11.30pm, EST, pulled in 3.6 million viewers in the US - beating the show’s previous high when the Democrat presidential candidate’s wife Michelle appeared [...]

His cash bonanza gives Obama lots of leeway in how to place ads on national, local, and cable TV, while McCain has to pick his spots
When college football fans watch the big Penn State vs. Ohio State game on Saturday, Oct. 25, there will be more going on than smash-mouth football. There will be [...]

The Republican took an early lead over Obama in supporting disruptive innovation in education that can revamp how today’s classrooms are run
For a candidate who’s been criticized as being out of touch on technology, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been refreshingly ahead of the curve when it comes to disruptive innovation in education.
While Republican [...]

So you’re racing down the road in Burnout Paradise and you’re all, “Was that an Obama ad?”
Yes, yes it was.
EA has confirmed that the Obama campaign is running ads in several of its video games including Madden NFL 09, Need For Speed: Carbon and, as you see here, Burnout Paradise.

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By Eric Krangel
Late last night, Twitter launched election.twitter.com, a page that puts all of the service’s politics tweets on one scrolling feed. (Cofounder Biz Stone’s official announcement.) By showing every tweet about “Obama” or “McCain” in real-time, the site provides a sort of snapshot of what the Twitter hivemind thinks of the candidates and which [...]

After Hurricane Gustav blew through and Americans started searching for Sarah Palin, the Google and YouTube teams got down to business at the Republican Convention.

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