I’d have to say none. I watch Lehrer, and I monitor the news all day via the SDMB and CNN on-line. But I don’t read newspapers and usually don’t read periodicals. I watch MSNBC at night, pretty much every night. Would I be hired?
Well, not at my company, no. Sorry. For economic and financial stuff you need to show evidence of doing your own thinking, not just accepting what the talking heads tell you.
Moreover, it’s strongly preferred that you read newspapers written in Chinese.
Koxinga, denizen of the Taiwan stock market.
yep i was 
Its a good question.
I see that downthread you said you would not hire Oy because he does not read newspapers, I think Oy’s answer is orders of magnitude better than Palin’s, he is open about the fact and a case can be made that he and you only differ on the quality of his and yours preferred info sources (i think SDMB and CNN online are better sources than the NY Post or the Washington Times, for example).
But not only Palin does not read newspapers, she also has not the brains to realize that “all of them” is a ridiculous answer, and has not the moral fortitude to say “I dont read newspapers, i think that does not disqualify me because x,yz…”
For christ’s sake if you are going to pretend that you read Newspapers at least say something like " i read NY Times and the WS Journal so i can see the news from both angles" or “i read <insert popular conservative newspaper>”
She’s the worst of both worlds dumb and dishonest…
I really really hope she does not end up as Potus.
Ah. Well, I can’t work anyway, and I can’t read (or speak) Chinese. So I guess I’m right out. If you need an employee, don’t come looking for me. 
Oy! is a she too.
ETA: I’m not sure accepting what reading heads are telling you in papers is more thinking than accepting what talking heads on TV are telling you.
Ouch!, sorry Oy.
s’ok.
No reason to be sorry. Nor is there any reason to correct posters for this, as it’s not an error.
Well, I think I’m entitled to tell someone I’m a she rather than a he, aren’t I? But I agree there was no reason for Frodo to be sorry - there’s no way (I assume) he could have known unless (I assume) he had run across me being a her before.
Couric asked which papers Palin read prior to getting tapped for VP. I find it a bit startling that Palin wouldn’t start her answer with “Naturally, I read the Anchorage Daily News and the Fairbanks News-Miner…”
She’s the governor of Alaska and doesn’t read the local dailies?
A lousy actor always avoids bad reviews…
Actually, she clarified that she reads all of the newspapers that have been in front of her over the years. What that means to me is “I read all of the newspapers that happen to be in front of me when I sit down to read a newspaper.”
Katie was trying to give her viewers a look into Palin’s “world view”, and I think she did.
Quinnipiac is officially up now. . .
FLORIDA: Obama 51, McCain 43
OHIO: Obama 50, McCain 42
PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54, McCain 39
Dates conducted: Sept. 27-29. Error margin: 3.4 percentage points.
http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/01/poll-obama-edges-out-mccain-in-battlegrounds/
To be fair, this was ElvisLives who opened this thread.
“Todd! The Moosetail Penny Gazette says that Roy & Sue Ann and getting married!”
I somehow think he was paying attention.
Seems like Nate of 538 has a similar take, looking not only at that one poll but others as well.
Today though come some numbers that show that the debate may have actually forked McCain some where it counts the most - some critical states. Today’s Quinnipac numbers show some results reported out both pre and post debate in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. In each case Obama gained ground. Up two more in Florida, one more in Ohio, and nine in Pennsylvania. Even if the pollster does lean Obamaward he likely leans so by a consistent amount.
538’s model now gives McCain 14.6% chance of pulling it off and Obama a 28.5% chance of winning with 375 EVs or more. How do we want to define forked? I’ll wait for the VP debate to be behind us and some package on the economic rescue plan to be passed, but barring some surprising McCain gamechanger there the silverware gets passed out.
As to the op …
Well McCain did get some passes - probably up to the point that he started whining about how unfair the press was - and Palin did - in a short term both turn his numbers around and rally the GOP wagons 'round him. Who knows if Senator Clinton would have done better or worse. At least she wouldn’t have had Bill out therer constantly saying how wonderful Mccain is!
Real Clear Politics is showing their “no toss-up” electoral map with McCain at 190 and Obama at 348, which I believe would be considered a land slide victory:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10
Imo, McCain’s only hope is that there are enough rednecks out there who will factor race into their vote once behind the curtain. The Bradley effect…
I don’t buy the Bradley Effect for this one, because I see no reason for someone disposed to vote against Obama to lie about it.
NJ has more electoral votes than Massachusetts? Who knew? I would never have thought that!
We’ve got to stop this. We’re feeling too safe. Rev up your paranoia. There’s a month left for things to go terribly wrong.
But grant the possibility of a modest Bradley effect (despite the fact that analyses have failed to see any evidence of it this cycle at least). Offsets include the cell phone effect (polls underestimate Obama support by 1 to 3% by being limited to landlines), the errors inherent in “likely voter” screens (many Obama supporters are not considered “likely” as they have not voted in previous election cycles), and the Obama ground game (GOTV).
And oh yes the Obama electoral structural advantage.
Hard to see a path to a McCain victory barring some major gamechanging event. To go back to when this thread was created again, yes, get past this next week, the VP debate and an economy rescue plan signed and sealed, then barring a terroist attack (bite my tongue) or some other major unpredictable and uncontrollable event, then McCain’s chance of pulling victory approaches the miniscule possibility that Sen Clinton had when some of us began to declare that she was forked. Like then, not strictly impossible but so improbable as to be nearly so.