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Candidates spar with 9 days to go (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 11:10 PM CDT AP - Republican John McCain declared "I'm going to win it," dismissing polls showing him behind with little more than a week to go in the presidential race. A confident Democrat Barack Obama drew a jaw-dropping 100,000 people to a single rally and rolled out a new TV ad asserting his rival is "running out of time."

For Obama, no rest in an 18-hour campaign day (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 02:44 AM CDT AP - "Hey, mom, how are you?" Barack Obama yelled into somebody's cell phone, complying briefly but happily with yet another star-struck stranger's request to impress a far-off friend or relative. This time it was from inside a barber shop, but this sort of thing happens to Obama many times each day, just one illustration of the near-phenomenon that is his campaign to capture the White House.

For McCain, 18-hour days produce both hits, errors (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 02:46 AM CDT AP - For a guy who spent time in the "Hanoi Hilton" as a Vietnam prisoner of war, the Four Seasons Hotel has to feel a world apart.

Economy overshadows all for heartland voters (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 02:51 AM CDT AP - Political allegiances are as divided as football loyalties in the country's heartland, home to deeply depressed economies, middle America values and profound doubts about whether either Barack Obama or John McCain will be able to reverse the worst financial turmoil this country has seen since the Great Depression.

Former GOP senator, vet backs Obama (Politico) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 07:14 PM CDT Politico - Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), who was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the United States Senate, is the latest Republican to back Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Politico learned Sunday.

Obama stirs up supporters in Colorado (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 10:13 PM CDT AP - Roaring toward the finish, Barack Obama presided Sunday over two Colorado rallies that together drew about 150,000 people, a startling turnout in a key swing state.

In Iowa, McCain dismisses sour poll numbers (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 05:29 PM CDT AP - Republican John McCain, behind in the polls and looking for a comeback, argued Sunday that voters should elect him president to create a check on a Democratic Congress that he says is determined to increase taxes and the size of government.

Palin says expensive clothing not her property (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 09:04 PM CDT AP - Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Sunday the $150,000 in clothes and accessories bought for her by the Republican National Committee don't belong to her, equating the high-priced wardrobe with the stagecraft at campaign rallies.

Endorsements: Anchorage paper picks Obama (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 04:34 PM CDT AP - Excerpts from recent newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

McCain campaign: Palin returned most GOP clothes (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 01:11 PM CDT AP - Republican John McCain said Sunday that one-third of the $150,000 that the GOP spent on clothing and accessories for his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and her family, "is given back."

USA (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT The Christian Science Monitor - Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to make his first campaign appearance alongside Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday in Florida, the Obama campaign said Saturday. Clinton's presence, analysts believe, could help with working-class, white voters in the hotly contested state.

Obama slams McCain in Colorado (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 02:50 AM CDT Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama sharpened his criticism of rival John McCain Sunday, warning a huge crowd of more than 100,000 supporters that a McCain White House would mean four more years of failed Republican policies and broken politics.

All in a day on the campaign trail (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 02:48 AM CDT AP - The facts and figures that sum up one day on the campaign trail with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain:

Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 02:06 AM CDT AP - McCain says 'I'm going to win it' as Obama says the Republican is running out of time' ... McCain says Palin returned some of the $150,000 in clothing the Republican Party bought her ... The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper, endorses Obama for president ...

One poll moves (a lot); the rest stay flat (The Yahoo! Newsroom) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 01:04 AM CDT The Yahoo! Newsroom - Over the weekend there wasn’t much change in the poll numbers in the presidential race between John McCain and Barack Obama.

Obama leads in 5 key states, McCain in 2 (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 12:06 AM CDT Reuters - Barack Obama leads John McCain in five of eight crucial battleground states one week before the presidential election, with McCain ahead in two states and Florida dead even, according to a series of Reuters/Zogby polls released on Monday.

Pentagon on guard for White House wartime transition (AFP) Posted: 27 Oct 2008 12:01 AM CDT AFP - The Pentagon has been preparing for months for the first wartime change of presidents in 40 years, a period of heightened vulnerability that, if history is a guide, US adversaries will try to exploit.

White House race gilded by history (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 11:51 PM CDT AFP - "Historic" might be the most overused word of the White House race, yet the spellbinding plot twists of 2008 have undeniably made this campaign one for the ages.

Obama Wages `Uphill Battle' to Wrest West Virginia From McCain (Bloomberg) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 11:01 PM CDT Bloomberg - Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama and John McCain stand watch outside a music and movies store in Bridgeport, West Virginia. The life-size cutouts seem almost life-like; sometimes Obama is in front, other times it's McCain.

Obama draws record crowd, links McCain to Bush (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2008 09:31 PM CDT AFP - Barack Obama took aim at John McCain before record crowds after his rival acknowledged sharing the same Republican party philosophy as unpopular President George W. Bush.

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