Nota Bene: Today’s Reading Assignments

• How Can John McCain’s Appearance on ‘SNL’ Go Awry? Let Us Count the Ways — Chris Rozvar and Jessica Pressler, The Daily Intel Blog, New York Magazine
• Death Toll Up, Struggle to Reach China Survivors — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times
• Are the Republicans Doomed? - Jim VandeHei & Mike Allen, The Politico
• The GOP Must Stand for Something - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
• Opinion: Let them eat Juche — The Economist
• Editorial: The Republican Panic - Wall Street Journal
• A Mississippi Microcosm? — Richard Cohen, National Journal
• Editorial: McCain’s Path to Victory - Washington Times
• Clinton’s 11th Hour Push - Alexander Bolton, The Hill
• Edwards Backs Obama, Sends Signal to Clinton - Peter Slevin, Washington Post
• Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears — Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse, New York Times
• Freedomland– William S. Lind, The American Conservative
• Turning Voters Into Morons — R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The American Spectator
• The Sky Is Falling — by Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic
• The Shape of Things to Come — Todd Purdum, Vanity Fair
• Like There’s No Tomorrow: How economists think about procrastination — Ray Fisman, Slate
• You Won’t Fool the Children of the rEVOLution — David Weigel, Reason Magazine
• Why Hillary Is So Hard to Take — Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
• McCain’s Veepstakes: Maybe Mitch? — John Gizzi, Human Events
• Conservatives are fed up with the Republican party — Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show
• The last six weeks have been a great benefit to Obama — and may emerge as the most important period of his quest for the presidency — Douglas Schoen, Los Angeles Times
• New Math for November — Timothy Egan, Outposts Blog, New York Times