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Nearly 10,000 students greeted Michelle Obama Wednesday morning to energize youth voters at the University of Colorado's Farrand Field. View the slideshow inside.

All of the political leaders blessed the deal, but the House of Representatives spit it out anyway. The Wall Street bailout is so odious to public opinion, the "people's house" rejected it, 228-205. The fever chart in Wall Street — better known as the stock market — swooned instantly, with the Dow falling 700 points. The political bedlam in Washington is as real as it gets.

Sen. Barack Obama was greeted by a raucous crowd of 2,500 at a Westminster, Colo., high school on Sept. 29. It was the Democratic presidential nominee's first speech following the failed Wall Street bailout bill vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read the liveblog of the event here.

The country is facing a compressed election cycle. In a couple of weeks early voting will start up pretty much all across the country. John McCain put additional pressure on the election cycle by naming the largely unknown Sarah Palin to his ticket. McCain has also changed position on many issues over the last few weeks to shore up his base. Energy policy is near the top of the list of issues for most Americans. Which candidate's energy policy dovetails with the most prudent climate change policy over the long-term?

Former Colorado Senate President Ray Powers was a conservative and a gentleman and a bona fide kingmaker in the rough-and-tumble Republican politics of El Paso County. It never struck anyone as strange or unrefined that the most important political fund-raisers in the area — drawing some of the highest office-seekers in the land — were held in a barn on the Powers’ ranch on the plains. Powers, who never went beyond the eighth grade and graduated to a life of principle and flair, died on Friday. He was 79. Read more about Powers' extraordinary life.

Everyone is talking about polls. Fair enough. We are finally in the season when, to some minor extent, polls can be consulted for a sense about where this seemingly very tight race for the presidency is headed. So let's get clear about some basics:

If John McCain manages to carry the 2008 presidential election, his victory will be due in no small part to his success in persuading a passel of independent voters that Sarah Palin was chosen for some reason other than her appeal to the variety of conservatives who continue to dominate the Republican party.

During last Thursday night's Service Forum at Columbia University, John McCain hammered Barack Obama for declining to engage in a series of 10 town-hall style debates across the country in the run-up to the election. When Mr. McCain brought this challenge to the Illinois Senator back in June, Obama seemed in a dominant position looking toward the conventions, and opted — probably sensibly — not to rock the boat. Now, however, the landscape has shifted; the McCain campaign owns the spotlight, the momentum, and the polls thanks in large part to Sarah Palin, and the Obama-ites are searching for an effective counter punch.

That 9/11 Truce didn't last long.

I continue to be amazed that former Colorado Congressman Bob Schaffer, who is currently running for the U.S. Senate, fails to recognize that his actions and those of his most recent employer, Aspect Energy, undermined US policy in Iraq. The facts speak for themselves.