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Palin wins praise from Michelle Obama

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Call it the Palin Effect, but everywhere you turn on the Internet this morning, you bump into Sarah. That's an actual new term, by the way, coined by Slate magazine to explain her effect on Internet traffic. Details below.

Newsreader will feature Michelle Obama on Palin, details on the alleged Yahoo hacker who pleaded not guilty yesterday and got his trial date as well as the growing hubbub over the A-bomb (meaning McCain/Palin associating Barack Obama with Bill Ayers), including an amateur video of a post-McCain/Palin rally crowd where some in attendance say they are persuaded by the link to terrorism. Find an update on the Tina Fey-SNL prospects tonight, and visit Barrow where the fall whale hunt is on.

Michelle Obama admires Palin's ability to juggle. The New York Times Caucus blog watched Michelle on Larry King and Jon Stewart.

"You know, I'm a mother with kids, and I've had a career and I've had to juggle," Mrs. Obama said on CNN's "Larry King Live."

"She's doing publicly what so many women are doing on their own privately," she added. "What we're fighting for is to make sure that all women have the choices that Sarah Palin and I have."

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