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• Obama rallies for a loyalist as final dash begins (AP)
• Obama in rare, late campaign stop for congressman (Reuters)
• RI gubernatorial candidates meet for final debate (AP)
• Angle sidesteps questions in surprise TV interview (AP)
• Clinton denies asking Fla. Dem to drop Senate bid (AP)
• Ark.'s Ross uses fellow Dems as foil in House bid (AP)
• PARTING SHOTS: Obama calls shipments from Yemen ‘credible terrorist threat’ (The Upshot)
• Modest US growth no help to Democrats as poll looms (AFP)
• Boehner promises a new Congress if GOP takes over (AP)
• 'Game Change' Authors: Can Obama Win a Second Term? (Time.com)
• NY gov candidates making final appeals to voters (AP)
• Obama suspects Yemen al Qaeda group behind plot (Reuters)
• Text of Obama statement on terrorism (AP)
• Democrats buy last-minute ads to attack Murkowski (The Upshot)
• WH: Terror probe won't disrupt Obama's travel (AP)
• Outside groups spend over $12M on Mo. Senate race (AP)
• Young Latino Dems may cost congressman his job (AP)
• Angle camp bans TV stations from election party (AP)
• Obama: 'Credible' terrorist threat being probed (AP)
• Baker: Voters must change govs to change Mass. (AP)

Obama rallies for a loyalist as final dash begins (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:53 PM PDT AP - Fighting to the end, President Barack Obama on Friday devoted shrinking campaign time for one endangered Virginia Democrat, calling his bid a national test case of whether a person of integrity can win.

Obama in rare, late campaign stop for congressman (Reuters) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:37 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama exhorted voters to keep faith in his policy agenda in a campaign stop on Friday for a Virginia congressman he has praised as one of his Democratic Party's most courageous politicians.

RI gubernatorial candidates meet for final debate (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:21 PM PDT AP - The Democrat running for Rhode Island governor is sparring with his opponents in their final debate as he tries to recover from fallout over his comment earlier in the week that President Barack Obama can "really shove it" for not endorsing him.

Angle sidesteps questions in surprise TV interview (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:19 PM PDT AP - Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle sidestepped questions Friday from TV reporters who tracked her to the airport, the latest evidence of a strategy to mostly stay away from the media in her dead-heat race with Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Clinton denies asking Fla. Dem to drop Senate bid (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:15 PM PDT AP - Former President Bill Clinton on Friday denied reports — confirmed by his spokesman a day earlier — that he asked Democrat Kendrick Meek to drop out of the three-way Florida Senate race to clear the way for independent Gov. Charlie Crist.

Ark.'s Ross uses fellow Dems as foil in House bid (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:44 PM PDT AP - As the only Arkansas congressman seeking re-election, U.S. Rep. Mike Ross should have plenty of reason to fret about his future. He's an incumbent in a political climate hostile to those in power. He's also a Democrat in a place where the party's leader, President Barack Obama, is especially unpopular.

PARTING SHOTS: Obama calls shipments from Yemen ‘credible terrorist threat’ (The Upshot) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:19 PM PDT The Upshot - Here is our roster of stories that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment: • President Obama discussed the mysterious cargo shipments from Yemen, acknowledging that "they do apparently contain explosive material." (MSNBC) • Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle is still running from reporters, in airports and parking garages. (YouTube) • A group of [...]

Modest US growth no help to Democrats as poll looms (AFP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:07 PM PDT AFP - New data showing only modest US economic growth offered scant consolation Friday for President Barack Obama and his Democrats as they brace for a likely thumping in mid-term polls next week.

Boehner promises a new Congress if GOP takes over (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - House GOP leader John Boehner (BAY'-nur) is assuring supporters in his home state of Ohio that Republicans will lead Congress in a much different way than the last time around if he becomes speaker.

'Game Change' Authors: Can Obama Win a Second Term? (Time.com) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - To win a second term, Barack Obama will need a new strategy. A new paperback afterword from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the authors of Game Change, discusses the President's re-election campaign

NY gov candidates making final appeals to voters (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:41 PM PDT AP - Republican Carl Paladino promised he would pull New York out of its economic morass — and lay off thousands of state workers in process — as he rallied Friday with supporters in the race for governor.

Obama suspects Yemen al Qaeda group behind plot (Reuters) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:51 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday U.S. officials suspected an al Qaeda group in Yemen was responsible for two suspicious packages that were bound for Jewish synagogues in Chicago from Yemen.

Text of Obama statement on terrorism (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - Text of statement by President Obama on the overseas discovery of U.S.-bound packages containing explosives aboard cargo jets:

Democrats buy last-minute ads to attack Murkowski (The Upshot) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:31 PM PDT The Upshot - Do Democrats think Scott McAdams has a chance of winning Alaska's Senate race? As first reported by NBC's Chuck Todd, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is spending cash this weekend on last-minute ads aimed at taking down incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is waging a write-in candidacy in the race. The DSCC's last-ditch outlay [...]

WH: Terror probe won't disrupt Obama's travel (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:04 PM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama's weekend travel plans to campaign ahead of the midterm elections will not be affected by a terror probe on three continents.

Outside groups spend over $12M on Mo. Senate race (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:00 PM PDT AP - Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Robin Carnahan claimed Friday that special interest groups are trying to "buy themselves a senator" by spending millions of dollars on ads attacking her and backing Republican Roy Blunt.

Young Latino Dems may cost congressman his job (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:56 PM PDT AP - Young Democrats in this sweeping West Texas district are upset about U.S. Congressman Ciro Rodriguez's vote for President Barack Obama's health care reform. And even though it could cost him his job, the Democrat makes no apologies.

Angle camp bans TV stations from election party (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:43 PM PDT AP - Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle's campaign is banning two Las Vegas television stations from covering the candidate's election night party as punishment for asking questions without permission.

Obama: 'Credible' terrorist threat being probed (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:26 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says the terror probe into suspicious packages believed to be linked to a plot by Yemen's al-Qaida branch is a "credible terrorist threat."

Baker: Voters must change govs to change Mass. (AP) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:20 PM PDT AP - Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker seized upon the symbolism of the American Revolution on Friday as he told Massachusetts voters that if they want to change in their government, they have to vote for him next week.

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