As Obama’s support rises, McCain’s campaign tactics dive deeper into the electoral gutter. Does the media follow the negative playbook of the GOP scrutinizing one candidate’s association and not the other? Enough about his ties, what about theirs? McCain and Palin have their own baggage.

Meanwhile world markets plummet despite the passing of the US bailout. Conservative media are spinning the wheel in the blame game to point at low income folks and government lenders. Congressional hearings reveal bailed-out AIG execs shelling out big bucks for premium spa treatments! Where’s the Fourth Estate?

On GRIT TV we offer you a different perspective on the week’s stories from commentators who instinctively detour from the beaten track….we welcome Joe Conason, National Correspondent for the New York Observer, Columnist for Salon.com and Director of The Nation Investigative Fund, Choire Sicha, formerly Managing Editor of Gawker, now Editor at Large of RadarOnline and Logan Nakyanzi Pollard, Executive Producer Black Politics and Ron Reagan Shows at Air America Radio, look at the lopsided power of partisan media — and ask whether the cash-strapped public are buying any of it.

Vlogger Jay Smooth of the Ill Doctrine worries about Tolerance Fatigue, a.k.a. The Bradley Effect. JLove Calderon is someone who’s spent her young lifetime trying to understand how white supremacy works. She is the co-creator of the We Got Issues! Leadership Institute for Young Women, and worked for over a decade with the peace and justice youth organization, El Puente. you can find it on the web…jlovecalderon.com.

Today’s GOT DOCS comes from some very young widows of our very young servicemembers killed in combat. It started when Taryn Davis lost her husband Michael to a roadside bomb in Baghdad in 2007. Spending 14 hours a day on the internet, feeling lost and alone in her grief, she wasn’t finding what she needed. So she made a MySpace page, and built a community of widow to widow outreach; they video their experience and have been doing outreach events across the country. They’ll be in Austin TX October 19. This week’s GOT DOCS is The American Widow Project.

We have A Secret Insider’s Guide To Swinging Elections, with a very hip, voters guide "Count Me IN" available at wakeupandsaveyourcountry.com – and it has some very concrete steps you can take if you think something’s amuck at your polling place — it’s all right here on GRITtv.

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