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Early voting redefines the
way elections unfold -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Voters bustling to get ready
for election -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Presidential Candidates Should
Address Water-Energy Issue - Iran ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Democrats Have 80000 Voter
Registration Advantage in Nevada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Democrats To Raise McCain
Associations To Keating, Others -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Registration Gains Favor Democrats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Palin advisers to cooperate
in probe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The seven including Palins chief of staff had tried to fight subpoenas issued by the state Senate Judiciary Committee. But an Anchorage judge upheld the subpoenas Thursday, and Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg notified the committee Sunday that they would give statements after all, Judiciary Committee Chairman Hollis French said. Were still working out the
details, said French. |
Obama accuses McCain of looking
for distractions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200....r-distractions/ Sen. Obama slammed Sen. McCain's health
care plan at a campaign event in North Carolina Sunday. Watch: Obama fights back "Sen. McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up," Obama said at an event in Asheville, North Carolina. "That's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time," he said. The comments come a day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, claimed that Obama associated "with terrorists who targeted our own country." The McCain campaign shot back on Sunday, saying its accusations are "true facts," and not "smears." "The last four weeks of this election
will be about whether the American people are willing to turn
our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man
with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical
figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers,"
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement. Sen. Obama slammed Sen. McCain's health
care plan at a campaign event in North Carolina Sunday. Watch: Obama fights back "Sen. McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up," Obama said at an event in Asheville, North Carolina. "That's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time," he said. The comments come a day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, claimed that Obama associated "with terrorists who targeted our own country." The McCain campaign shot back on Sunday, saying its accusations are "true facts," and not "smears." "The last four weeks of this election
will be about whether the American people are willing to turn
our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man
with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical
figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers,"
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement. |
Obama Plays the Keating Card -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/05/obama_plays_the_keating_card.html Sen. Barack Obama "will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain in the 'Keating Five' savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain's public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer," according to Mike Allen. Key point: "The Obama campaign, including its surrogates appearing on radio and television, will argue that the deregulatory fervor that caused massive, cascading savings-and-loan collapses in the late '80s was pursued by McCain throughout his career, and helped cause the current credit crisis." The Obama campaign is e-mailing supporters
a link to a new website, KeatingEconomics.com, "which will
have a 13-minute documentary on the scandal beginning at noon
Eastern time on Monday. The overnight e-mails urge recipients
to pass the link on to friends." |
Obama's Ground Game -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/05/obamas_ground_game.html With the McCain campaign retreating from Michigan into Wisconsin, Walter Shapiro heads to Green Bay and notices a distinct difference between the ground games of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. "Something major seems to be stirring
when the Obama campaign can put a battalion on the streets of
Brown County and the McCain forces have to counter with a ragtag
platoon of high-school students." |
Virginia GOP Worried About
McCain's Chances -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/1....ns_chances.html According to Politico, Virginia Republicans "are warning that John McCain's prospects for winning a state that has been in the GOP column in every presidential election since 1964 could be in jeopardy." "With Barack Obama treating the Old
Dominion like a battleground state and reliable polls showing
a margin-of-error race there, some are cautioning that McCain
is making a critical mistake by allowing the Democratic nominee
to outpace him in terms of visits and resources committed."
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VP Debate Pushed Undecided
Voters to Obama -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/1....s_to_obama.html An Ipsos/McClatchy poll found that Gov. Sarah Palin's performance in last week's vice presidential debate actually hurt her running mate, Sen. John McCain, among undecided voters. Before the debate, undecided voters were leaning 56% to 44% for McCain. The day after the debate, the numbers tilted 52% to 48% for Sen. Barack Obama. Said pollster Clifford Young: "It's suggesting an overall tendency of undecideds toward Obama, so it is significant. We're catching an underlying trend that's going on." The poll also found that Sen. Joe Biden
won the debate, 54% to 46%. |
Electoral Map Now Favors Obama -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/05/electoral_map_now_favors_obama.html The New York Times looks at the electoral map: "Mr. Obama now has a solid lead in states that account for 189 electoral votes, and he is well positioned in states representing 71 more electoral votes, for a total of 260... based on polls and interviews with officials from both campaigns and outside analysts. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency." "Mr. McCain has solid leads in states with 160 electoral votes and is well positioned in states with another 40 electoral votes, according to the Times tally, for a total of 200." Just six states representing 78 electoral votes -- Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia -- are tossups." In his latest electoral projection, the Votemaster has Obama leading McCain, 329 to 194 with 15 votes up for grabs. Update: Even Karl Rove predicts Obama would win the election if held today. Update II: Chuck Todd says the latest NBC
News projection -- Obama 264, McCain 175 -- puts Obama is just
one state away from getting the necessary 270 votes. |
Columbus Dispatch Poll: Obama
Opens Lead in Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/1....ad_in_ohio.html Amid growing concerns about the economy, Ohio Democrats are coming home to Sen. Barack Obama, giving him a 7-point advantage in a new Columbus Dispatch Poll over Sen. John McCain, 49% to 42%. The lead is especially important as "thousands of Ohioans already are casting ballots in the state's first presidential election allowing any registered voter to vote absentee." Interesting: "McCain's best hope might
stem from the fact that Ohio traditionally leans toward the GOP
and more moderate candidates, and the state party has one of
the best organizations in the country. However, the Dispatch
Poll shows a playing field that currently holds 10 percent more
self-identified Democrats than Republicans." |
Minnesota Poll: Obama Surges
Way Ahead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/1...._way_ahead.html A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows Sen. Barack Obama has opened up a commanding lead over Sen. John McCain, 55% to 37%. "That's a huge difference from the
last Minnesota Poll, conducted in September, which showed the
race dead even, with each candidate backed by 45 percent of likely
voters. The new poll shows that Obama's surge in the state can
be attributed to voters' belief in his ability to deal with the
nation's worsening economy, his performance in the first presidential
debate and an increase in the number of Minnesotans who call
themselves Democrats." |
Homelessness hits record high -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Paulson to Tap Adviser to
Run Rescue Program -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122325337693906423.html?mod=googlenews_wsj |
Conservatives question McCains
attack strategy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Voter registration trends
appear to favor Democrats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Mail-in ballots go to 5 million
Californians -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/06/BACS13B5B3.DTL |
Obama has lead in Ohio, poll
finds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Nebraska Becomes Unlikely
Battleground -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Last Day to Register to Vote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cbs12.com/news/county_4709927___article.html/vote_registered.html |
Florida: Today is last chance
to register to vote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Barkley, Coleman and Franken
face off -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Economy looms large in Michigan's
US Senate race -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Clinton has raised $8M for
Obama -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-05-Clinton_N.htm |
Senate Finance Committee leaders
raise concerns about problems in ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Over the weekend, John McCain's
top adviser announced their plan to stop engaging in a debate
over the economy and "turn the page" to more direct,
personal attacks on Barack Obama. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the policies McCain supported these past eight years and wants to continue are pretty hard to defend. But it's not just McCain's role in the current crisis that they're avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time. During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion. Sound familiar? In that crisis, John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud and McCain in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain's Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts -- and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain. So at noon Eastern on Monday, October 6th, we're releasing a 13-minute documentary about the scandal called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis" -- it will be available at KeatingEconomics.com, along with background information that every voter should know. Watch a preview right now and share it with your friends. The point of the film and the web site is that John McCain still hasn't learned his lesson. And this time, McCain's bankrupt economic philosophy has put our economy at the brink of collapse and put millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes. Watch the video to see why John McCain's failed philosophy and poor judgment is a recipe for deepening the crisis: http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo It's no wonder John McCain would rather spend the last month of this election smearing Barack's character instead of talking about the top priority issue for voters. But if we work together, we can make sure the focus stays on the economy -- and how to fix it. Please forward this email to everyone you know. Thanks, David David Plouffe P.S. -- The documentary will be live at
noon Eastern at www.KeatingEconomics.com. |
Rice: Iraq harder
than she personally imagined -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON (CNN) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday the road for the U.S. in Iraq has been harder, longer, and more difficult that I personally imagined and warned that despite some recent progress, success in Iraq is not a sure thing. She made those comments at a packed auditorium at the State Department to salute a top diplomat and a top general. She honored Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker with the highest award the State Department gives: The Distinguished Persons Award. Rice said there has been progress in Iraq,
the economy is springing back to life and displaced
Iraqis are returning home. She added al Qaeda is weaker and the
Iraqi government is playing a more effective role. Rice called
it a hopeful but fragile turn of events but said
success in Iraq is not a sure thing. |
Poll: Most Americans think
another economic depression is likely -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll
out Monday afternoon, 59 The country went through a decade-long
depression following the stock From CNNs Deputy Political
Director Paul Steinhauser |
How to vote by absentee ballot
for Nov. 4 election -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nilesstar.com/articles/2008/10/06/columnists/ndcolumn05.txt |
November Election Voting Deadline
Ends Monday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Polls Show Obama Way Up In
Two Key Swing States -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Obama Camp Hits Back At McCain's
"Keating Economics" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Election Race Diary Roundup
(10/5 30 Days to Change) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/1pMm4aTnve0/621059 |
Presidential candidates present
health care proposals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Democrats Register Thousands
of First-Time Voters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://wokv.com/localnews/2008/10/democrats-register-thousands-o.html |
Democrats streak ahead in
new polls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Democrats are expected to
pick up seats as all House members face ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Democrats 'win more new voters' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Democrats dig into McCain's
role in a financial scandal of the 1980s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
US election: McCain's temper
and age become focus of Democrats' ads -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/06/uselections2008.barackobama2 |
C-SPAN Daily Alert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C-SPAN Highlights Tonight: Tomorrow: Tonight: Tomorrow: Tonight: Tomorrow: ********************************************************************** Tonight: Tomorrow: ********************************************************************** * 2nd Presidential Debate at Belmont Univ.
in Nashville - Tues., C-SPAN, 9pm ET LIVE * Newspaper Articles * After four days of political and economic turmoil, the House on Friday reversed itself and cleared a $700 billion financial bailout package that also extends dozens of expiring tax breaks... - Full Story at www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/ * What issue was the subject of an October
surprise in both the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections?
- Answer at www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/ |
Red State Democrats Rising -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Massive Voter Registration
Drive Favors Democrats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
More Democrats than Republicans
in Florida -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
WCU/NPR Poll: Obama Ahead
By Ten In Pennsylvania -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Fox/Rasmussen: Obama Gains
in Key Swing States -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida: Obama 52%, McCain 45% Colorado: Obama 51%, McCain 45% Missouri: Obama 50%, McCain 47% Virginia: Obama 50%, McCain 48% Ohio: McCain 48%, McCain 47% |
WP/ABC Poll: Obama Leads By
Six in Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obama leads Sen. John McCain, 51% to 45%, in the key swing state. |
WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama Widens
National Lead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obama now leads Sen. John McCain by six points, 49% to 43%, up from just two points in the same poll two weeks ago. Update: Interestingly, though most recent national polls show Obama increasing his lead, the latest CBS News poll has the race closer with Obama just edging McCain, 48% to 45%. |
CNN Poll: Obama Expands National
Lead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key finding: "Low approval numbers for the current commander-in-chief may be part of the reason Obama's fortunes are rising in the latest survey: Only 24% of those polled approve of President Bush's job performance, an all-time low for a CNN survey... And that's bad news for McCain, because the poll suggests a growing number of Americans believe the Republican nominee would have the same policies as the current GOP president. Fifty-six percent say McCain's policies would be the same as Bush's, up from 50% a month ago." |
Martin Closes In On Senate
Seat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SurveyUSA: Chambliss 46%, Martin 44% Research 2000: Chambliss 45%, Martin 44% |
PPP Poll: Obama Expands Lead
in North Carolina -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the first time, "Obama is earning over 80% of the vote from self identified Democrats, and that's fueling a four point increase in his lead in the state compared to last week. He now has an 82% to 15% lead with voters in his own party. His share of the Democratic vote had been anywhere between 69% and 76% in PPP's previous five surveys of the state." Interesting: Obama's numbers rise every time he makes a visit to the state. McCain hasn't visited in five months. |
Democracy Corps: Obama Up
By Six in Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obama's lead is built "on an impressive 48% to 35% edge among independent voters. McCain's attempt to seize the mantle of change is falling on deaf ears in Ohio as by 24%, voters in the Buckeye state believe Obama, not McCain, is the reformer and by 18%, Ohioans believe Obama will bring the right kind of change. And in a state where the economy is king, Obama's aggressive positioning of the economic contrast with McCain has produced an 11-point Obama lead on which candidate will do a better job on the economy." |
Suffolk Poll: Obama Crushing
McCain in Virginia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Said pollster David Paleologos: "Barack Obama has built a coalition of suburban DC area progressives from the north, African-American voters from the south, and young voters statewide. That broad-based support suggests a 44-year Republican run in the Old Dominion State, dating back to Lyndon Johnson's victory in 1964, is in jeopardy." Key finding: "The poll shows last Thursday's vice presidential debate was a net plus for the Democratic ticket. Exactly three-quarters (75%) of likely voters watched and scored Joe Biden (46%) the clear winner over Sarah Palin (26%), while 20% said neither won the debate. When asked if the debate affected their presidential selection, 32% said it made them more likely to vote Obama, while 18% said the debate moved them to McCain, and 47% said the debate didn't affect their decision." Earlier today, a SurveyUSA poll also showed Obama with a double-digit lead in Virginia. |
SurveyUSA: Obama Way Ahead
in New Hampshire -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A little history: "New Hampshire voted Republican in 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2000. New Hampshire voted Democrat in 1992, 1996 and 2004, but no Democrat running for President in New Hampshire has received more than 50% of the vote in the past 44 years." Key findings: Obama holds a 22-point advantage among women, 29-point advantage among young voters, 21-point advantage among Moderates, 18-point advantage among those who consider themselves an intellectual, 24-point advantage among lower-income voters, and 23-point advantage among college graduates. |
SurveyUSA: Obama Pulls Away
in Virginia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since a similar poll conducted just after the Republican convention, McCain has gone from up by 2 to down by 10. Key finding: McCain no longer leads in any region of the state. |
The Path to 270 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/06/the_path_to_270.html |
Wolfson Says Race is Over -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only unknowns are the size of the margin and the breadth of the Democratic advantage in the next Congress. http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/06/wolfson_says_race_is_over.html |
Journal Poll: Obama Leads
in New Mexico -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Said pollster Brian Sanderoff: "Barack Obama has been on a roll in the last 10 days to two weeks." |
Fact Check: Did McCain intervene
on behalf of Charles Keating? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200....harles-keating/ Monday the Obama campaigned rolled out
a Web site and online documentary about Sen. McCain and Charles
Keating. Get the facts!
The Facts: Keating was sentenced to prison and required to pay more than $1 billion in civil penalties after being convicted on fraud, racketeering and conspiracy charges centered around his running of Lincoln Savings and Loan, which he bought in 1984. On April 14, 1989, Lincoln was seized by the government at an eventual taxpayer cost of $3.4 billion, then the most expensive thrift bailout in history. Lincoln and Keating became national symbols of the savings-and-loans collapse of the '80s much as lending firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have symbolized the current financial meltdown. McCain had been friends with Keating since the early '80s their families vacationed together several times, according to previous CNN reporting. Keating was an early financial supporter of McCain's political career and donated to his campaigns repeatedly over the years. Keating's first company, American Continental, was headquartered in Arizona, the state McCain represents. McCain became one of the so-called "Keating Five" five U.S. senators investigated over accusations they tried to interfere in a federal investigation of Keating's role in the savings-and-loan's collapse. In January 1985, while in the U.S. House, McCain co-sponsored a resolution that would have delayed the effective date of proposed government limits "on direct investment in real estate, service corporations, and equity securities by federally insured savings and loan associations." He was one of the early sponsors, although a majority of Congress eventually signed on to sponsor it. The legislation would have impacted Keating's business, but would have regulated the entire industry, not specifically Lincoln Savings and Loan. McCain also wrote several letters to government regulators and other officials regarding the issue. One, dated Jan. 30, 1985, to White House chief of staff James Baker, called the proposed regulations "unwise," saying the effort "flys (sic) in the face of our recent efforts to remove the hand of government from the affairs of private enterprise." On April 9, 1987, McCain and the other senators attended a meeting with federal regulators investigating Keating. McCain has since said he regrets doing so. "He asked me to help him," he said during an October 2002 interview with Chicago's WGN-AM radio station. "I said I wouldn't do certain things. He called me a wimp. I threw him out of my office, but I still went to a meeting with four other senators with a group of regulators." McCain testified that he never asked for anything inappropriate during the meeting, and the Senate ethics committee found that, after regulators said the firm was being investigated not just for insolvency, but on criminal grounds, McCain took no further action on Keating's behalf. In the end, the committee recommended McCain and Sen. John Glenn be dropped from the probe although McCain was rebuked by the Senate for using "poor judgment" in his relationship with the millionaire banker. The Verdict: True. McCain did push to delay
regulations that would have cracked down on savings-and-loans
practices and intervened on Keating's behalf, although he was
cleared of wrongdoing in the "Keating Five" case. |
CNN Poll: Obama advantage
grows -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
A new national poll suggests Barack Obama
is taking the lead. Obama: 53 percent NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his edge over John McCain in the race for the White House. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Monday afternoon suggests that the country's financial crisis, record low approval ratings for President Bush, and a drop in the public's perception of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin all appear to be contributing factors in Obamas gains among voters. Fifty-three percent of likely voters questioned in the poll say they are backing Obama for president, with 45 percent supporting McCain. That 8 point edge is double the 4 point margin Obama held in the last CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, taken in mid-September. Low approval numbers for the current commander-in-chief may be part of the reason Obamas fortunes are rising in the latest survey: Only 24 percent of those polled approve of President Bush's job performance, an all-time low for a CNN survey. "Bush has now tied Richard Nixon's
worst rating ever, taken in a poll just before he resigned in
1974, and is only 2 points higher than the worst presidential
approval rating in history, Harry Truman's 22 percent mark in
February 1952," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. |
Obama: McCain shouldnt
turn the page on economy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From CNN Assignment Editor Lauren Kornreich
Obama says McCain is avoiding discussing
the economy. As the stock market dropped even more on Monday afternoon and affected markets around the world, Obama criticized McCain for playing politics over talking about his plan to fix the economy. I have got news for the McCain campaign, the American people are losing right now, Obama told reporters in Asheville, North Carolina. They are losing their jobs, they are losing their healthcare, they are losing their homes, they are losing their savings, I cannot image anything more important to talk about than the economic crisis. Obama encouraged Congress to work on a second economic stimulus package that would provide direct relief from high gas and food prices and said Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke need to move quickly to restore confidence in the economy. Obama said the next steps are to work to improve the housing market and to extend unemployment insurance. The Democratic nominee said both candidates
need to address their plans for the economy during the debate
in Nashville on Tuesday night. |
UN chief wants new look at
UN Georgia mission -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gTnt59KmP9fGyyf7HMqRCYAnT3VAD93LBC0O0 |
EU Finance Ministers Meet
Amid Global Crisis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Pakistan denies deal for US
strikes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Taliban, Afghan officials
meet in Saudi Arabia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD93L7O2O0 |
Iranian letter rejects pressure
on nuclear issue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE4958AY20081007 |
US supports Taliban return
to power -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
As Palin Brings Up Ayers,
Obama Team Cites Keating -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Court Won't Force Testimony
On Firings of US Attorneys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Poverty still plagues US cities:
survey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4955DC20081006 |
Capitol Grilling for Lehman
CEO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
US financial bailout: It is
rocket science -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
McCain, Obama gear up for
second debate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE4960FF20081007 |
Last day of voter registration
draws crowds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-10-06-registration_N.htm |
Poll: Obama Takes 6-Point
Lead in Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Obama widens lead in national
poll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/06/poll.of.polls/?iref=hpmostpop |