Washington Post Top Online Stories: Thu 9/09/10

The Washington Post lead headline online early Thursday morning says " Many object to Islamic center near Ground Zero." The paper says most Americans say the planned Muslim community center and place of worship should not be built in Lower Manhattan, with the sensitive locale being their overwhelming objection, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The paper says for a city already struggling with high unemployment, widespread foreclosures and deep budget cuts, here was another crisis: Wind-whipped fires tearing through row after row of homes, some of them abandoned.

It says in the most read story Geoff Tunnicliffe heads of one of the world's largest faith organizations - the World Evangelical Alliance - but on Wednesday morning, when he reached the Florida pastor planning to burn the Koran on Sept. 11, "I felt like a deer in the headlights," he said.

The paper says in the most read story facing a rising jobless rate and the possibility of a GOP blowout in the November midterm elections, President Obama sought Wednesday to convince voters that he is charting a new path to revive the American economy.

It says the Democrats, facing an electoral washout in November of the sort rarely seen since the campaign of Noah (D- Mt. Ararat), have launched their autumn campaign with one of the underdog's time-honored strategies: pooh-poohing the polling.