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Yahoo! News: Elections

McCain, Palin going to region threatened by storm (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 09:02 PM CDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, Ariz., left, introduces his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at a campaign stop in Washington, Pa. Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are traveling to Mississippi on Sunday to check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav.


McCain, Palin in Pa.; GOP convention eyes Gustav (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 03:09 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pumps her fist as she walks towards a bus at a campaign stop in Washington, Pa. Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - John McCain voiced concern for Gulf Coast residents fleeing the path of Hurricane Gustav on Saturday and made plans to visit Mississippi even as he reintroduced running mate Sarah Palin to a raucous crowd in a key battleground state.


Pennsylvania, Michigan crucial to fall election (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 07:31 PM CDT

US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) orders breakfast at Yankee Kitchen Family Restaurant during a campaign stop in Boardman, Ohio, August 30, 2008. Obama is joined by his vice presidential running mate Senator Joe Biden (D-DE)(2nd R) and their wives Michelle Obama (2nd L) and Jill Biden (C).  REUTERS/Jim Young  (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - Keep your eyes on Pennsylvania and Michigan.


McCain hopes to reclaim reformist mantle (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 09:36 PM CDT

Scott Walker, the St. Paul, Minn.,  McCain for President chairman, holds campaign signs as he looks at his cell phone and Sherafgan Tareen, right,  photographs the scene on the floor of the Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - John McCain will try to reclaim his reformist image at a Republican National Convention tightly scripted to put some distance between the conservative presidential candidate and his party's unpopular standard-bearer, President Bush.


Obama: 'I feel confident about my choice' (Politico)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 10:27 PM CDT

Politico - Asked at a press conference Saturday night to respond to McCain's argument that Palin has more executive experience than the Democratic ticket, Obama and Biden laughed.

Police target protesters at RNC convention (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 03:00 PM CDT

AP - Republican National Convention protesters targeted in a series of police raids Friday night and Saturday say they won't back down from their plans to march on the event's opening day.

Obama: Let's hope lessons of Katrina were learned (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 09:24 PM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, sits on the stage with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and her husband former President Bill Clinton during the memorial service for Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones D-Ohio, at the Cleveland Convention Center in Cleveland, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama expressed hope Saturday that the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina three years ago would help to protect the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Gustav this time. His running mate, Joe Biden, urged people to pray that the levees in New Orleans hold.


Dem ad: McCain `doesn't get it' despite Palin (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 05:09 PM CDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledge supporters after McCain introduced Palin as his vice presidential running mate Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 at Ervin J. Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - As John McCain pushes the new Republican presidential ticket of McCain-Palin, Democrat Barack Obama is promoting another Republican brand — McCain-Bush.


McCain, Palin to test hurricane preparations (AFP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 02:20 AM CDT

Republican vice-presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (2ndR), her daughter Piper (R) and her husband Todd (L) campaign at Tom's Dinner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. John McCain and Palin will Sunday ditch their pre-convention plans and visit people in Mississippi bracing for deadly Hurricane Gustav.(AFP/Robyn Beck)AFP - Republican White House hopeful John McCain and running-mate Sarah Palin will Sunday ditch their pre-convention plans and visit people in Mississippi bracing for deadly Hurricane Gustav.


Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 01:59 AM CDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., hugs his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov., Sarah Palin, after introducing her at a campaign rally in Washington, Penn., Saturday evening, Aug. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - McCain, Palin spend first full day of campaigning in Pa.; GOP leaders keep wary eye on Gustav ... As Gustav approaches Gulf Coast, Obama expresses hope that lessons leaned from Katrina ... Magazine: Obama told Petraeus some US forces in Iraq should be shifted to Afghanistan fight


Palin bump brings McCain 7 million dollars in a day (AFP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 12:41 AM CDT

Presumptive US Republican vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin seen August 30 in Washington, Pennsylvania.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AFP - Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin proved she could bring in the money as John McCain's campaign raked in seven million dollars in the first day after he announced his historic pick.


Obama Has Post-Convention Lead in Gallup Poll; Palin an Unknown (Bloomberg)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 11:35 PM CDT

Bloomberg - Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama jumped to his biggest lead since late July in public opinion polls, after his Aug. 28 speech to more than 75,000 people in a Denver football stadium when he accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

News media follows Gustav south (Politico)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 11:28 PM CDT

Politico - On Saturday evening, CNN broadcast Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s campaign appearance on an Ohio football field, with the live feed taking up roughly three-quarters of viewers’ television screens.

McCain and Palin team up as Gustav looms (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 11:25 PM CDT

Republican vice-presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin campaigns in Washington, Pennsylvania August 30, 2008. (John Gress./Reuters)Reuters - White House hopeful John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin hit the campaign trail as a team on Saturday, seeking to build on the momentum of her surprise addition to the Republican ticket even as Hurricane Gustav threatened to overshadow next week's party convention.


Prose watch: Obama acceptance speech (Politico)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 10:17 PM CDT

Politico - As a record 38 million tuned in to watch Barack Obama accept his party’s nomination on Friday and 85,000 more saw the speech live from Invesco Field at Mile High, the nominee seemed determined to disprove Mario Cuomo’s adage that “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

Play of Day: Biden, Obama bicker over states' corn (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 06:51 PM CDT

AP - Barack Obama and Joe Biden survived their first public spat as running mates on Saturday. The subject: corn.

Obama Has Post-Convention Lead; Palin Largely Unknown (Bloomberg)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 06:04 PM CDT

Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama jumped to his biggest lead since late July in public opinion polls, after his televised speech to more than 75,000 people in a Denver football stadium and his Democratic National Convention reconciliation with rival Hillary Clinton.

Bush seizing spotlight briefly to support McCain (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 04:04 PM CDT

US President George W. Bush (seen here August 28) has assured the US public that he shares their economic worries and urged lawmakers to respond by approving his trade, energy, and tax-cut agenda.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - The Democrats had the awkwardness of the Clintons at their convention. Republicans now have their version of a precarious guest: President Bush.


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