Hitting Obama on his inexperience:

A quick look at where the candidates and their running mates are campaigning today with links to those states' RCP Avgs:

* McCain is in Ohio;

* Obama is in Florida, then later in Virginia, then in Missouri;

* Palin is in Missouri, then later in Pennsylvania;

* Biden is in Pennsylvania.

Freshman Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), representing the western suburbs of Chicago, is backing John McCain for president, but he is nonetheless reaching out to potential Obama supporters for their vote. Roskam's campaign has launched a web site called "ObamaVotersForRoskam.com," reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

Roskam's spokesman said the Web site was appropriate because 30 percent of Roskam supporters are voting for Obama.

Roskam's not the only Republican hoping to boost support among the throngs of Obama supporters. Sen. Roger Wicker, running in the special election in Mississippi to fill the remaining four years of Trent Lott's term, has run radio ads that feature Obama supporters who say they're voting for Wicker rather than Democratic candidate Ronnie Musgrove.

"On numerous occasions, Wicker has lambasted Obama, an Illinois senator," the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal writes. "But Wicker is still courting Obama supporters."

Barack Obama:

"This morning, we learned that GDP has fallen for the first time this year, which means America is producing less and selling less and our economy is shrinking. American consumers were especially hard hit, experiencing their largest decline in spending in 28 years as wages failed to keep up with the rising cost of living. The decline in our GDP didn't happen by accident -- it is a direct result of the Bush Administration's trickle down, Wall Street first, Main Street last policies that John McCain has embraced for the last eight years and plans to continue for the next four.  These policies didn't work then, they won't work now, and I'm running for President to end them.  We need to grow our economy by creating jobs, providing tax relief for middle class families, and helping people stay in their homes, and that is exactly what I will do as President."

McCain senior policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin:

Today's announcement that third quarter GDP fell at a 0.3 percent rate confirms what Americans already knew: the economy is shrinking. Barack Obama would accelerate this dangerous course. According to the independent Center for Data Analysis, Barack Obama's new policies will destroy nearly 6 million jobs over the next decade.

"Barack Obama's ideologically-driven plans to redistribute income will impose higher taxes on families, small businesses, and investors; expensive, rigid, job-killing health mandates on employers; energy policies that fail to promote domestic oil, natural gas, and coal, and will impose a massive Washington-driven regulation of everything from home furnaces to factories; isolationist trade policies that endanger one out of every five jobs; and massive new spending plans that that will burden the economy and saddle our children with debt. Barack Obama is change Americans cannot afford.

"John McCain's comprehensive reforms will clean up Wall Street, clean up Washington, and create nearly 2 million more jobs over the same period. John McCain offers a new direction and a real choice: lower taxes and under control spending; lower health care costs and portable insurance; an energy policy that declares independence from dangerous and unstable sources, values the environment, and supports growth; serious reforms to taxes, education, and trade to promote global competitiveness, and short-run plans to help the seniors, savers, homeowners, and workers hurt by the financial crisis."

In the Headlines

"A final push in most expensive campaign" (Brian Mooney, Boston Globe) - An unprecedented $64 million worth of television ads in just the final week of the race will put an exclamation point on the most expensive presidential campaign in history.

"Bill Clinton hails Obama as America's future" (Ben Feller, AP) - Portraying harmony like never before, Bill Clinton hailed Barack Obama on Wednesday, a power pairing designed to inspire Democrats already smelling victory.

"John McCain could still win -- if everything broke his way" (Steven Thomma, McClatchy) - John McCain still could win. It would take what one analyst calls a "perfect storm" of events breaking his way in the campaign's final days, but he could come from behind, overtake Barack Obama and pull off the greatest upset in 60 years.

"McCain, GOP gain ground on Obama ads in key states" (Jim Kuhnhenn, AP) - After weeks of being out-advertised by Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate John McCain and the Republican Party are nearly matching the Democratic nominee ad for ad in key battleground markets.

On the Morning Shows

Good Morning America - Barack Obama: "You don't want to say ‘here's something I didn't do. Here's a hand I didn't shake.'  People are going through such a hard time.  One of the things you develop over a campaign like this is just an accumulation of these stories and I want to make sure I do what I can to help these people.”

Sarah Palin on the criticism and negative polling she's faced: “I don't care what the polls say, I honestly don't.  There have been many underestimated persons elected to office given the opportunity to prove the pundits wrong.  I know the truth, I know my record and to prove who I am and who I would stand for. It's all worth it and I'm not giving up on any of it.”

(Greg Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Report.)

If you missed it last night:

The McCain campaign's response:

As anyone who has bought anything from an infomercial knows, the sales-job is always better than the product.  Buyer beware.

Here are more state polls released today, with Obama leading in all of the below polls except in Missouri.

CNN/Time
Colorado: Obama 53, McCain 45
Missouri: McCain 50, Obama 48

Franklin & Marshall
Pennsylvania: Obama 53, McCain 40

Marist - OH, PA
Ohio: Obama 48, McCain 45
Pennsylvania: Obama 55, McCain 41

Associated Press/GfK
Colorado: Obama 50, McCain 41
Florida: Obama 45, McCain 43
Nevada: Obama 52, McCain 40
New Hampshire: Obama 55, McCain 37
North Carolina: Obama 48, McCain 46
Ohio: Obama 48, McCain 41
Pennsylvania: Obama 52, McCain 40
Virginia: Obama 49, McCain 42

Fed cut to 1%.

Dana Milbank and Karen Tumulty profile the muzzling of Joe Biden. Both stories are a good example of how modern political campaigns in America literally suck most of the life and color out of even the most interesting and/or engaging people and turn them into teleprompter-driven androids.

I've said this before but it bears repeating: one of the great ironies this year is that despite - or pehraps because of - the Internets, YouTube, and the rabid 24-7 media beast that has obliterated the news cycle and produced more coverage than ever before, we've been living through what is arguably the least spontaneous presidential race in history.

Democrats are getting ready to strip Lieberman of his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, The Hill reports.