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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama mocks McCain as computer illiterate (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:10 AM CDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen., John McCain, R-Ariz., left, greets Democratic presidential candidate, Sen., Barack Obama, D-Ill., before Obama begins and after McCain finished participation in a forum on national service at Columbia University., Thursday night, Sept. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCain's long Washington career.


GOP campaign downplays Palin book-banning inquiry (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:21 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is greeted by her daughter, Piper, left, after arriving for a welcome home rally in Fairbanks, Alaska, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - The McCain campaign is defending Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's much-criticized inquiry into banning books at her hometown library, saying her questions were only hypothetical.


Palin tries to defend qualifications in interview (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:13 AM CDT

In this image released by ABC, ABC News anchor Charles Gibson talks to Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin in Fairbanks, Alaska in an interview, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.  The first excerpts will air Thursday on 'World News with Charles Gibson' and 'Nightline.'  On Friday, portions of the interview will air on 'Good Morning America,' 'World News,' 'Nightline' and a special one-hour '20/20.'  (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennik)AP - In her first televised interview since being named to the GOP ticket, Sarah Palin says she's ready to be president if called upon. However, she sidestepped questions on whether she had the national security credentials needed to be commander in chief.


McCain, Obama discuss views on public service (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:24 AM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., during the Service Nation Summit at Columbia University in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.  (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Republican John McCain declined to disavow Thursday the tough criticism by his campaign of his Democratic opponent's experience as a community organizer, saying politics is "tough business" even as he praised Barack Obama's service.


Obama plans to 'make government cool again' (Politico)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 09:47 PM CDT

Politico - Barack Obama addressed the wide distaste for government -- and the fact that he and John McCain are running against Washington -- at the forum on national service at Columbia University.

Voting success: NY, other states keep old machines (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:21 AM CDT

A new electronic voting machine is set up for handicapped voters during primary day voting in Ravena, N.Y., Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008.  According to a recent government report, 80 percent of states have spent more than half of the money they received under the Help America Vote Act to upgrade their voting machines and systems.  New York, New Hampshire and Oklahoma have spent only about 10 percent of their federal dollars, either by dithering or by design.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Sometimes, it pays to be pokey. Going slow has paid the state of New York about $27 million and counting. New Hampshire and Oklahoma, too, are sitting on a pile of federal money.


Lawsuit could frustrate Nov. 4 voters in Wisconsin (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:19 AM CDT

AP - A lawsuit demanding Wisconsin election officials verify voters' identity before the November election could lead to frustration at the polls and exhausted clerks in a hotly contested state in the presidential race.

Film shows McCain's release from Vietnamese prison (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 10:42 PM CDT

This still from video obtained exclusively by Associated Press Television News shows Republican presidential candidate and then prisoner of war John McCain after stepping off a bus as he and other POWs were released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on March 14, 1973. The frame is part of footage found in the archives of Swedish broadcaster SVT.(AP Photo/AP TV News,SVT)AP - Previously unseen footage emerged Thursday showing Republican presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the U.S. military.


Mass. lawmakers, unopposed, spend cash freely (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 02:42 AM CDT

AP - Car leases, holiday parties, new office furniture and meals at high-end restaurants are just some of the ways top Massachusetts lawmakers, unopposed at the ballot box, are choosing to spend their campaign donations.

Analysis: McCain's claims skirt facts, test voters (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 07:29 PM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.,left and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.  pay their respects at the site of the World Trade Center during a commemoration ceremony in New York, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Shannon Stapleton, Pool)AP - The "Straight Talk Express" has detoured into doublespeak.


Obama deploys Clintons as race tightens (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:17 AM CDT

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and former US President Bill Clinton greet supporters after a lunch meeting in New York on September 11. Obama is unleashing both of the Democratic Party's heaviest hitters -- Bill and Hillary Clinton -- as he battles to fend off a revitalized Republican ticket in the White House election.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AFP - Barack Obama is unleashing both of the Democratic Party's heaviest hitters -- Bill and Hillary Clinton -- as he battles to fend off a revitalized Republican ticket in the White House election.


Palin will not 'blink' in America's 'righteous' cause (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:02 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attends a campaign event in Fairfax, Virginia on September 10. Palin has vowed not to AFP - Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin vowed Thursday not to "blink" in pursuit of America's "righteous" war in Iraq and insisted she was ready to step in as president if needed.


Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 02:14 AM CDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen., John McCain, R-Ariz., sits with Judy Woodruff, right, and Time Magazine managing editor Richard Stengel, center, before his participation in a forum on national service at Columbia University., Thursday night, Sept. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Analysis: McCain's campaign claims skirt facts as strategists watch voters' reactions ... McCain, Obama discuss views on public service during nationally televised forum ... Palin administration threatens court action to block Troopergate subpoenas ...


Palin sends son to fight 'righteous cause' in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 12:58 AM CDT

US troops in their deployment ceremony, at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin sent her son off to fight for a AFP - Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin sent her son off to fight for a "righteous cause" as his Army unit prepared to deploy to Iraq.


Obama, McCain Agree on Volunteerism as Campaigns Observe Truce (Bloomberg)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 11:22 PM CDT

Bloomberg - Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain and Barack Obama found common ground on the virtues of volunteering at a forum on national service last night that ended a day largely free of the partisan broadsides that will define the presidential campaign over the next 53 days.

Palin Choice Lets McCain Bypass Evangelicals in Shift to Center (Bloomberg)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 11:01 PM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attends a campaign event at Van Dyke Park in Fairfax, Virginia on September 10. Palin insisted in her first major television interview on Thursday she was ready to step in as US president if necessary.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)Bloomberg - Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain won't attend a gathering of religious conservatives this weekend -- and the Republican presidential nominee won't have to ask forgiveness.


Obama returns to cult comedy show (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 10:55 PM CDT

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain embrace. Obama, after a bruising week of lipstick on pigs and other taunts on the White House campaign trail, returns to the cult TV show AFP - Barack Obama, after a bruising week of lipstick on pigs and other taunts on the White House campaign trail, returns to the cult TV show "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, aides said.


Ohio Dems select tab mayor to replace late Rep. (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 10:38 PM CDT

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., sits with invited guests as she attends a memorial service honoring the late Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tubbs Jones died Aug. 20 of a brain hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurysm. Tubbs Jones backed Clinton in the Democratic presidential primaries.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Democratic leaders on Thursday selected the mayor of a suburban Cleveland town to replace the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones on the Nov. 4 ballot.


Palin switches roles to send a son to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 10:28 PM CDT

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin takes the stage at a campaign event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on September 9. Palin Thursday refused to rule out war with Russia should Georgia eventually join NATO and then be invaded by Moscow's troops.(AFP/Robyn Beck)AP - Gov. Sarah Palin switched roles Thursday, shifting from Republican candidate for vice president to anxious mom sending her son off to war in Iraq.


Pentagon to campaigns: Troops, bases aren't props (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 10:16 PM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, left, talks to Col. Edward Daly, deputy commander of the U.S. Army in Alaska, and Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, right, during a deployment ceremony for the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.  Palin's son Track Palin is a members of the brigade being deployed to Iraq.   ( AP Photo/ Al Grillo)AP - Before Sarah Palin spoke at a ceremony Thursday for her son's Army brigade, bound for Iraq, the Pentagon sent a message of its own to the Republican vice presidential candidate: Watch your language.


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