The Morning Read: Thursday, October 9, 2008

Todd Palin spent years trying to get his ex-brother-in-law fired, he told investigators in Alaska.

Amy Sullivan at Time reports that the reason the McCain campaign isn't pushing Barack Obama's connection to Jeremiah Wright is "much more related to his running mate's own pastor problems than to any newfound campaign honor code."

John McCain’s campaign “careened wildly between the high and low roads” yesterday, writes the Daily News.

Michael Kinsley relays the tale of a friend who witnessed McCain scream "DON’T TOUCH ME" and "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO?" at a craps table in Puerto Rico in 2005.

Good luck getting a ticket for the debate at Hofstra.

“I believe the voters will return to a two term limit,” said Ron Lauder, whom “Bloomberg emissaries” have approached for two years in hopes of getting him to support Michael Bloomberg’s quest for a third term.

“A treaty of the tycoons,“ is how John Liu described Lauder’s agreement with Bloomberg.

“This kind of deal does have the whiff of class warfare almost,” said the head of the Working Families Party.

The editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Record doesn’t like Bloomberg’s “undemocratic power grab.”

Josh Silverstein thinks Christine Quinn’s reform image is greatly diminished.

Democratic congressional candidate Dan Maffei wants to repeal Nafta.

The New York Post editorial board wonders if David Paterson will “manage even to get to 2010 in anything approaching politically viable condition?”

A Wall Street Journal editorial board member says the media is for Barack Obama.

Sarah Palin's going to drop the puck at a hockey game in Pennsylvania Saturday night.

In Nassau County, there are more registered Democrats than Republicans. But the Republican county chairman says party labels don’t matter.

Democrats may lose an upstate Senate seat.

A local watchdog group says it’s misleading for a Democratic Assembly candidate to say he eliminated a local tax when it was phased out before he got into office.

Vito Fossella’s blood-alcohol content increased each time he took the test the night he was arrested.

And, hello black Republican bloggers.