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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama fundraising drops as McCain's cash dwindles (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 04:20 AM CDT

This combination photo shows Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (L) during the presidential debate at Hofstra University, New York, October 15, 2008 and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain during a rally in Concord, North Carolina October 18, 2008. (Jim Bourg/Carlos Barria/Reuters)AP - Barack Obama and John McCain enter the final days of the presidential campaign amid dwindling reserves, with Obama hindered by a sudden drop in fundraising and McCain restrained by spending limits.

GOP open seats boost Democrats House chances (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 03:39 AM CDT

Democratic congressional candidate Joe Garcia, left, translates Spanish into English for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., listens during a presentation to senior citizens in the Little Havana area of Miami Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2008. (AP PhotoJ Pat Carter)AP - A rush of Republican retirements has positioned Democrats to pick up 20 or more seats in the House and transform what might otherwise be a march to modest gains on Election Day into a wave to a lopsided majority.

Florida voting back in spotlight this Election Day (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 03:44 AM CDT

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his wife Cindy McCain react to the crowd at a rally in Robarts Arena during the 'Joe the Plumber' Bus Tour in Sarasota, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Let us count the ways things could go wrong on Election Day in Florida:

Palin denies accepting $150K in designer clothes (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 12:19 AM CDT

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speak at a rally, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati. Todd Palin watches at rear. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Sarah Palin is blaming gender bias for the controversy over $150,000 worth of designer clothes, hairstyling and accessories the Republican Party provided for her, a newspaper reported Thursday.

McCain kicks off 'Joe the Plumber' tour (Politico)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 07:22 PM CDT

Politico - SARASOTA, Fla. – John McCain stopped at a series of small businesses along central Florida’s I-4 corridor on Thursday, hoping to win-over economically-anxious voters with a bus tour through one of the Sunshine State’s most buffeted and hotly contested regions.

After term-limit win, NYC mayor faces new fight (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 04:22 AM CDT

Onlookers voice their opinion during a debate on term limits at City Hall Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 in New York. New York City Council is expected to vote on legislation to extend term limits for 59 term-limited municipal offices from two to three four-year terms. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg faces a new fight now that he has won a major victory by convincing the City Council to back his plan to extend term-limits, clearing the way for him to run for another term.

San Francisco weighs takeover of electrical system (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 03:24 AM CDT

The Powell-Hyde cable car line makes its way up Hyde St. as the Pacific Ocean and Alcatraz Island is seen in the background in San Francisco, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - San Francisco voters have rejected ballot measures to support a takeover of the city's privately run electrical system nearly a dozen times over the past century.

Black turnout is strong in early voting in South (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:46 PM CDT

Djuana Belk-Massey, right, and Dmitri Belk look over a sample ballot as they stand in line to vote at an early voting site in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. In three Southern states critical to deciding who will win the White House — Georgia, Florida and North Carolina — there are clear signs after several days of early voting that favor Democratic nominee Barack Obama. In North Carolina, for example, 40,000 more blacks who are registered as Democrats have cast an early ballot than have registered Republicans overall. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - Blacks are already surging to the polls in parts of the South, according to initial figures from states that encourage early voting — a striking though still preliminary sign of how strongly they will turn out nationwide for Barack Obama in his campaign to become the first African-American president.

Obama visits grandmother, perhaps for last time (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 12:45 AM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., steps off the plane to visit his ailing grandmother, in Honolulu Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama left the campaign trail Thursday to visit his ailing grandmother, perhaps for the last time.

McCain might skip his own election-night party (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:50 PM CDT

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., acknowledges the cheers of supporters after taking the stage at the start of a campaign rally at All Star Building Materials in Ormond Beach, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Republican John McCain is not going to make his election night remarks in the traditional style — at a podium standing in front of a sea of campaign workers jammed into a hotel ballroom. Oh, the throng of supporters will hold the usual election night party at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4.

Palin insists she is 'frugal' spender (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 04:22 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, seen here on October 22, insisted she is a AFP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin insisted she is a "frugal" spender as she denied she had a 150,000 dollar Republican Party clothes budget for her and her family for the White House campaign.

GOP open seats fertile ground for House Democrats (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 02:53 AM CDT

AP - House Republicans are defending 29 so-called open seats being vacated by incumbents, while Democrats have just six. These up-for-grabs contests alone give Democrats a hefty edge in their push to expand their majority:

Obama arrives in Hawaii to visit sick grandmother (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 02:49 AM CDT

US map showing latest voting trends per state. Front-runner Barack Obama was Thursday set to quit the White House trail for Hawaii and an emotional reunion with his gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother, just 12 days before the election.(AFP)AFP - Barack Obama rushed to the side of his gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, leaving the White House trail behind in a highly unusual move just 11 days before the election.

Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 02:07 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin shakes hands with members of the Beaver Area High School football team after speaking at a campaign rally at the school in Beaver, Pa. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Pool, Michael Henninger)AP - Palin blames 'double standard' for flap over her designer clothes ... Grandmother ailing, Obama returns to Hawaii for what might be their final visit ... McCain soldiers on in Colorado despite cutting ad spending and trailing Obama in polls ...

Obama holds 10-pt lead on McCain in U.S. race (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 12:14 AM CDT

US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama speaks during a rally at the American Legion Mall in Indianapolis, Indiana. Front-runner Barack Obama was Thursday set to quit the White House trail for Hawaii and an emotional reunion with his gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother, just 12 days before the election.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama holds a 10-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Friday.

Presidential candidates prefer local interviews (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:33 PM CDT

AP - Barack Obama, John McCain and their running mates are granting the overwhelming majority of their media interviews to local television stations in hotly contested battleground states where they can stick to their own message.

Palin guarantees win at western Pennsylvania rally (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:28 PM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin shakes hands with members of the Beaver Area High School football team after speaking at a campaign rally at the school in Beaver, Pa. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Pool, Michael Henninger)AP - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin set aside Joe the Plumber for Joe the Quarterback — as in Joe Namath — and told supporters at a rally near where Namath grew up that she and John McCain are still in the game and they're going to win.

The latest newspaper endorsements in 2008 race (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:21 PM CDT

AP - Excerpts from recent newspaper endorsements of presidential candidates John McCain, a Republican, and Barack Obama, a Democrat.

Polls apart: Why polls vary on presidential race (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:10 PM CDT

Graphic shows likely voters' choice for president; 2c x 3 1/4 inches; 96.3 mm x 82.6 mmAP - Barack Obama is galloping away with the presidential race. Or maybe he has a modest lead. Or maybe he and John McCain are neck and neck.

McCain volunteer claims attacker cut 'B' into face (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:04 PM CDT

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waves to supporters as they cheer during his address at a rally in Sarasota, Fla., Thursday afternoon, Oct. 23, 2008, on his Florida campaign bus trip. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - A campaign volunteer for John McCain told police she was robbed at knifepoint at an ATM and knocked down by a man who then carved a "B" in her face after noticing a sticker for the presidential candidate on her car.

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