| After sad visit, Obama returns to campaign trail (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:36 AM CDT  AP - After saying goodbye to his failing grandmother, presidential candidate Barack Obama resumes campaigning Saturday with visits to formerly Republican states he hopes to drag into the Democratic column.
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| Obama, McCain target the West's toss-up states (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:19 AM CDT  AP - Barack Obama and John McCain venture into the next-to-last weekend of their testy presidential campaign with the same target winning the rest of the West.
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| Democrats headed toward big gains in House, Senate (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:21 AM CDT  AP - Democrats are on track for sizable gains in both houses of Congress on Nov. 4, according to strategists in both parties, although only improbable Southern victories can produce the 60-vote Senate majority they covet to help them pass priority legislation.
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| Appeals court to take up GOP effort in Indiana (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:27 AM CDT  AP - A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Friday rejected a effort by Republicans to shutter satellite early voting sites in three largely Democratic cities near Chicago, but an appeals court later agreed to expedite the case and set oral arguments for five days before the general election.
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| NBC News projects Obama clinch (Politico) Posted: 24 Oct 2008 07:45 PM CDT Politico - NBC News, which keeps the most widely followed of the media electoral-college estimates, on Friday night said it is moving the closely watched battlegrounds of Virginia and Colorado to “lean Obama,” putting its estimate for the Democratic nominee over the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. |
| After Joe the Plumber, Joe the Hothead? (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:15 AM CDT  AP - First there was Joe the Plumber. Is Joe the Hothead next? Joe McCain said Friday he'll withdraw from campaign activities for his brother, GOP presidential nominee John McCain, after calling 911 to angrily complain about traffic. Joe McCain has apologized for making the call.
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| Palin testifies to investigator in ethics dispute (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2008 10:45 PM CDT  AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified for two hours Friday in an abuse-of-power investigation that has been a distraction to her Republican vice presidential campaign. Palin's leadership was questioned this month in a stinging but largely toothless legislative report that found she violated state ethics laws by letting a family dispute influence her decision-making.
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| Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2008 11:15 PM CDT  AP - Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.
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| Biden: McCain needs Halloween costume for change (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2008 11:24 PM CDT  AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Friday that Republican John McCain would need a Halloween costume to convince voters that he would depart from the policies and divisive politics of President Bush. "I know Halloween is coming, but John McCain as the candidate of change?
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| Lieberman skirts issue of Palin's readiness (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 12:32 AM CDT  AP - Sen. Joe Lieberman on Friday skirted a question on whether vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is ready from day one to be president, saying "thank God" she won't have to be.
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| Excerpts from Joe McCain 911, police calls (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 03:15 AM CDT AP - Excerpts from calls made by Joe McCain, younger brother of GOP presidential candidate John McCain, made to 911 and the Alexandria Police after he got stuck in traffic. |
| Obama to return to stump as McCain blasts Democrats (AFP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 02:32 AM CDT  AFP - Democrat Barack Obama will resume active campaigning Saturday after taking time off to visit his ailing grandmother as his Republican rival John McCain charged that he had no other solution to the nation's economic woes but to "tax and spend."
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| Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 02:23 AM CDT  AP - Lieberman skirts question on whether Palin is ready to be president ... McCain's brother dropping out of campaign after calling 911 to complain about traffic ... Ex-Justice lawyers want attorney general to ensure investigation won't hinder minority voters ....
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| McCain volunteer admits she made up attack: police (AFP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 01:12 AM CDT  AFP - A John McCain campaign volunteer admitted she made up a racially and politically charged story of being robbed and having the letter "B" carved into her cheek by an assailant who saw a McCain sticker on her car, police said.
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| Federal judge in Utah donated to Obama campaign (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 12:51 AM CDT AP - The chief federal judge in Utah donated money to the presidential campaign of Democrat Barack Obama but says she was unaware that doing so violated a judicial ethics rule. |
| Obama lead on McCain slips to 9 points (Reuters) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 12:05 AM CDT  Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival John McCain fell slightly to 9 points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released Saturday, the second consecutive day the race has narrowed.
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| Venezuela's Chavez: Palin a pitiful 'beauty queen' (AP) Posted: 25 Oct 2008 12:01 AM CDT  AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a "poor thing" who didn't know what she was saying when she called him a dictator.
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| Sad Obama says goodbye to ailing grandmother (AFP) Posted: 24 Oct 2008 11:57 PM CDT  AFP - A heavy-hearted Barack Obama Friday said goodbye for perhaps the last time to the ailing grandmother who brought him up, who he said may not live the 10 days until the presidential election.
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| Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2008 10:54 PM CDT  AP - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in what she had said was a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.
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| Obama the grandson replaces Obama the candidate (AP) Posted: 24 Oct 2008 09:21 PM CDT  AP - Barack Obama, briefly a grandson instead of a candidate, spent some quiet family time Friday with the ailing woman who helped raise him, while a clutch of reporters, guards and gawkers waited outside her apartment building.
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