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Gwen Ifill is moderating the debate tomorrow night even though she has a pro Obama book coming out. Andrea Mitchell is reporting on the financial crisis, no doubt with some guidance from her former Fed chairman husband. And David Gregory's wife just stepped down as a major poobah at Fannie Mae. But when a conservative judicial nominee is reported to have eaten at a questionable taco stand in the 1970s, the press worries somberly about whether such a conflict of interest makes it possible to be impartial.