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08 Election Daily News Clips
October 30th, 2008
*Candidate Tracking:*
***All times in Eastern Standard Time
7:00am Palin: interview airs on ABC's "Good Morning America"
10:00am McCain: holds a "Road to Victory" rally at a junior high school in
Defiance, Ohio
10:00am BUSH: makes remarks at a graduation ceremony for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation Special Agents at the academy in Quantico, Virginia
10:30am Palin: holds a "Road to Victory" rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
11:40 BUSH: visits a Marine Helicopter Squadron One Hangarin Quantico,
Virginia
1:45pm McCain: makes a "Town Square Stop" at Washington Park in Sandusky,
Ohio
2:30pm Palin: holds a national security roundtable in Erie, Pennsylvania
3:10pm McCain: makes a "Town Square Stop" at the campus of Lorain County
Community College in Elyria, Ohio
4:15pm Palin: holds a "Road to Victory" rally at the Bayfront Convention
Center in Erie, Pennsylvania
6:00pm McCain: holds a "Road to Victory" rally in Mentor, Ohio
7:30pm Palin: holds a "Road to Victory" rally at Bowman Field in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
*News** Clips:*
MCCAIN NEWS
*McCain, GOP gain ground on Obama ads in key states (AP 10/30/08)*
By JIM KUHNHENN
WASHINGTON -- After weeks of being out-advertised by Barack Obama,
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and the Republican Party are
nearly matching the Democratic nominee ad for ad in key battleground
markets.
Ad spending and ad placement data obtained from Democratic and Republican
operatives show that in the closing days of the campaign the Republican
voice has grown louder in states such as Florida, Ohio, North Carolina,
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/747828.html
*McCain Warns Of Iran Nukes During Tampa Visit (Tampa Tribune 10/30/08)*
By WILLIAM MARCH
TAMPA - Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that if Sen. Barack Obama is elected
president, Iran may succeed in acquiring nuclear weapons.
"Because he is untested, Barack Obama would only invite an international
crisis," he said. "And we know well what one of those crises could be: the
success of the Iranian regime in its program of acquiring nuclear weapons."
McCain held a round table on national security issues at the University of
Tampa, followed by a short speech delivered to a crowd of invited supporters
and local Republican notables. The event was closed to the public and most
of the press, and McCain didn't take any questions.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/30/na-mccain-visits-tampa-for-closed-event/
*In Tampa, McCain focuses on security (Orlando Sentinel 10/30/08)*
TAMPA - With his campaign days numbered, Republican presidential nominee
John McCain on Wednesday sought to shift attention from the economy back to
what many view as the most powerful argument for his candidacy: national
security…McCain spent Wednesday campaigning for Florida's 27 electoral
votes, a key to his ability to muster the 270 needed to win. But some
faculty members and students at the University of Tampa, where the Arizona
senator met behind closed doors with former military officers and
national-security advisers to discuss national security, said the weakening
economy and education are bigger priorities.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-mccain3008oct30,0,7144721.story
*McCain Tries to Shift Focus to Security (WSJ 10/30/08)*
By LAURA MECKLER and CHRISTOPHER COOPER
TAMPA, Fla. -- Sen. John McCain on Wednesday sought to steer the
presidential-campaign conversation to national security, saying rival Sen.
Barack Obama had given voters "no reason" to believe he could protect the
nation from grave threats.
Sen. McCain's brief national-security speech was a departure in an election
season dominated by the economy. The Republican presidential nominee
reminded his audience that world threats will be present after the current
financial crisis is resolved.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122532308235682149.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*McCain Embraces a G.O.P. Theme: No More Taxes (NYT 10/30/08)*
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
MIAMI — In these waning days of Senator John McCain's quest for the White
House, he has returned in his speeches to a time-honored Republican attack
line against Democrats: the evils of taxes. Or, as he summed it up while
pummeling Senator Barack Obama in a lumberyard here on Wednesday, "This is
the fundamental difference between Senator Obama and me: He thinks taxes are
too low, and I think that spending is too high."
The line was the central theme of the final version of Mr. McCain's evolving
stump speech and reflected what his advisers calculate is his last, best
argument against Mr. Obama. Higher taxes, they say, strike fear in voters
already threatened by the precarious economy, as do Mr. McCain's charges
that Mr. Obama would effectively be a socialist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30mccain.html?pagewanted=print
*McCain hits Obama on experience and economy (Reuters 10/29/08)*
By Jeff Mason
MIAMI (Reuters) - Republican John McCain questioned Democratic rival Barack
Obama's readiness for the White House and Obama planned a prime-time
television appeal on Wednesday as a bruising presidential battle hit the
final stretch.
McCain kicked off a tour of the must-win state of Florida with a warning
that Democratic control of the White House and Congress would be bad news
for small businesses and American workers. "The answer to a slowing economy
is not higher taxes, but that is exactly what is going to happen when the
Democrats have total control of Washington. We can't let that happen,"
McCain told supporters at a rally in Miami, Florida, six days before
Tuesday's vote.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4998X420081029?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
*McCain Attacks Los Angeles Times Over Its Refusal to Release '03 Obama
Video (NYT 10/30/08)*
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Alleging media bias in favor of Democrats, Senator John McCain and Gov.
Sarah Palin seized Wednesday on The Los Angeles Times's refusal to release a
five-year-old videotape of Barack Obama at a dinner honoring a Palestinian
rights advocate.
The video shows a gathering in Chicago for Rashid Khalidi, a teacher, writer
and Obama friend who is critical of Israel. Mr. Obama spoke at the dinner,
where other speakers likened Israel and Israelis to terrorists. The McCain
campaign said the tape could show how Mr. Obama reacted to anti-Israel
remarks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30campaign.html?pagewanted=print
*McCain Again Points to Obama's Associates (WaPo 10/30/08)*
By Michael D. Shear
MIAMI, Oct. 29 -- Sen. John McCain compared the director of Columbia
University's Middle East Institute to a "neo-Nazi" and called on the Los
Angeles Times to release a video of a 2003 banquet at which Sen. Barack
Obama talked about the professor, Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian
American scholar and friend of Obama's from Chicago…McCain also alleged that
Vietnam War-era radical William Ayers had been at the banquet -- something
that has not been reported by the Times -- adding to a growing flap over the
release of the videotape, which the Times said had been provided by a source
on the condition that the paper not air it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102904037.html
*
McCain faults paper for not releasing Khalidi tape (AP 10/29/08)*
By BETH FOUHY
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) -- Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin accused
the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday of protecting Barack Obama by withholding
a videotape of the Democrat attending a 2003 party for a
Palestinian-American professor and critic of Israel. The paper said it had
written about the event in April and would not release the tape because of a
promise to the source who provided it…McCain also has ties to Khalidi
through a group Khalidi helped found 15 years ago. The Center for Palestine
Research and Studies received at least $448,000 from an organization McCain
chairs.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MCCAIN_PALIN_KHALIDI?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*McCain Chief Loyalist Has New Role (WaPo 10/30/08)*
By Michael Leahy
Mark Salter -- who has served Sen. John McCain for 19 years in roles
including speechwriter and biographer, chief of staff and gatekeeper -- is
commonly referred to as the boss's "alter ego." This means chief loyalist.
It means someone so close to McCain that the candidate has said he regards
him as a brother of sorts. But these days the 53-year-old Salter is an angry
man, even angrier than he was that day last spring in his office, when
McCain had already captured the Republican presidential nomination and
Barack Obama was still fighting his way through the Democratic primaries.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102904035.html
*McCain denies racism will determine election's outcome (CNN blog 10/29/08)*
(CNN) — Presidential candidate John McCain denied Wednesday that race will
determine the outcome of next week's election pitting him against Barack
Obama, who hopes to become the country's first black president.
"Look, there's racism in America — we all know that," the Republican hopeful
told CNN's "Larry King Live" in a taped interview set to air Wednesday
evening.
"But I am totally convinced that 99 and forty-four-one-hundredths percent of
Americans are going to make the decision based on who is best to lead this
country," he continued.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/29/mccain-denies-racism-will-determine-elections-outcome/
*Out of bounds! McCain's wrong on World Series delay (McClatchy 10/29/08)*
By David Lightman
Throw the flag against: John McCain. Call: Unsportsmanlike conduct.
What happened: "No one will delay the World Series game with an infomercial
when I'm president," the Republican presidential nominee told a crowd
Tuesday in Hershey, Pa…Why that's wrong: It's not unusual for World Series
games to start after 8:30 p.m., and according to the Web site Politico, the
Fox executive who's responsible for the Obama ad purchase said the
infomercial was replacing only the pre-game show… McCain himself was
responsible for shifting the time of the National Football League's 2008
opening game. NBC moved the Washington Redskins-New York Giants game up at
least an hour, to 7 p.m. EDT, so that McCain's Republican convention speech
could be broadcast around 10 p.m. on Sept. 4.
Penalty: 15 yards for misleading the public about Obama and the World
Series.
*John McCain could still win — if everything broke his way (McClatchy
10/29/08)*
By Steven Thomma
WASHINGTON — John McCain still could win.
It would take what one analyst calls a "perfect storm" of events breaking
his way in the campaign's final days, but he could come from behind,
overtake Barack Obama and pull off the greatest upset in 60 years.
He'd have to squeeze out more support from independents, score higher with
his "Joe the Plumber" warning about Obama's tax and economic polices, and
hope that enough undecided voters swing his way to help him sweep almost all
the states that now are considered tossups.
Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/54972.html
PALIN NEWS
* *Palin revs up Chillicothe (Columbus Dispatch 10/30/08)
By Jonathan Riskind
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -- Republican Sarah Palin roused a crowd yesterday in this
key swing city by attacking Democrat Barack Obama's current economic plans
and past associations, including with a critic of Israel.
During a 30-minute speech in front of the Ross County Courthouse, the GOP
vice presidential nominee concluded a three-city swing through Ohio with the
charge that "Sen. Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes.
Barack Obama is for bigger government and higher taxes."
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/30/PALIN30_story.ART_ART_10-30-08_A3_6OBOAM0.html?sid=101
Palin blasts Obama for ties to Palestinian professor (CNN blog 10/29/08)
By Peter Hamby
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (CNN) – Sarah Palin thrust Barack Obama's relationship
with a Palestinian academic into the national spotlight on Wednesday at a
rally in Ohio — a tactic reminiscent of her repeated attempts to tie Obama
to former radical William Ayers.
Palin kicked off her rally in Bowling Green by stressing, as she always
does, that "it is not negative campaigning to call someone out on their
record." In recent weeks Palin has used that line to open up an attack on
Obama's tax plans. On Wednesday, she tried something different.
"It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood
who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years," Palin
said. "This is important because his associate, Rashid Khalidi, he, in
addition to being a political ally of Barack Obama, he's a former
spokesperson for the Paliestinian Liberation Organization."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/29/palin-blasts-obama-for-ties-to-palestinian-professor/
Palin faces new ethics complaint over kids' travel (AP 10/29/08)
By RACHEL D'ORO
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A new ethics complaint has been filed against
Sarah Palin, accusing the Alaska governor of abusing her power by charging
the state when her children traveled with her.
The complaint alleges that the Republican vice presidential nominee used her
official position as governor for personal gain, violating a statute of the
Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. It follows a report by The Associated
Press last week that Palin charged the state more than $21,000 for her three
daughters' commercial flights, including events where they weren't invited,
and later ordered their expense forms amended to specify official state
business.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_ETHICS_COMPLAINT?SITE=RIPAW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
No Dissension in the McCain Campaign Ranks, Palin Says (WSJ 10/30/08)
By ELIZABETH HOLMES
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tried to
tamp down reports about internal dissent in the McCain campaign, telling the
Wall Street Journal Tuesday: "I laugh at 'em." "I have nothing but praise
for those involved in this campaign," she said in the brief interview aboard
her plane.
With just six days left until the general election, the onetime popular pick
has, after a series of blunders, increasingly been accused of being a drag
on presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. Gov. Palin has also been the
subject of criticism, via the media, from Republicans and unnamed campaign
staffers, that she has gone "rogue" and refused orders from her handlers in
an attempt to salvage her own political future should the ticket lose the
election.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122530113083680845.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
Republican VP nominee Palin eyeing 2012: report (AP 10/29/08)
By Joanne Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whether or not Republican presidential candidate John
McCain is elected next week, his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin,
plans to remain on the U.S. national political scene, ABC News reported on
Wednesday.
Asked about 2012, whether she was discouraged by daily attacks on the
campaign trail and whether she would return home to Alaska, the Republican
vice presidential nominee signaled that she expects to be a player in the
next presidential election cycle.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49S99J20081029?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Palin suggests she's now GOP political fixture (AP 10/29/08)
By BETH FOUHY
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Facing the unhappy prospect of defeat, Republican vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin indicated Wednesday that she will not
disappear from the national political scene if the GOP ticket loses on
Tuesday.
"Absolutely not. I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of
surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that ...
that would ... bring this whole ... I'm not doing this for naught," Palin
said in an interview with ABC News, according to excerpts of a transcript
released by the television network.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Sarah Palin: 'Not Doing This For Naught' (ABC News 10/29/08)
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Down in the polls but certainly not out, Gov. Sarah Palin remains in the
fight as the campaign enters its final week.
In an interview with ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas, the Republican
vice-presidential nominee was asked about 2012, whether she was discouraged
by the daily attacks on the campaign trail, and would instead pack it in and
return to her home state of Alaska.
"I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender
against some of the political shots that we've taken, that would bring this
whole & I'm not doing this for naught," Palin said.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6141033
With Palin Away, Lt. Gov. Parnell Takes On Expanded Role in Alaska (WSJ
10/30/08)
By JIM CARLTON
Gov. Palin handles some state business from the campaign trail, such as
making appointments and ordering flags lowered at half staff. But Lt. Gov.
Parnell has served as the face of state government, filling in for the
governor at events such as an Oct. 8 reception he co-hosted in Anchorage for
foreign defense attachés representing 32 countries. And as the partisan
fights marking the presidential race nationally have seeped into Alaska, the
mild-mannered lieutenant governor -- once known for helping cut deals across
party lines -- has taken on a new role: hard-edged political fighter.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122528843986080115.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
Sarah Palin: 2009 Calendar Girl (WSJ blog 10/29/08)
By Susan Davis
Win or lose next Tuesday, admirers of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin can gaze at
her all year round with the release of the 2009 Sarah Palin calendar, filled
with original photos from Anchorage-based photographer and friend-of-Palin
Judy Patrick.
The 13-month calendar–the first of its kind–includes dozens of original
portraits and candid shots of the Alaska governor on the job and with her
family. July's pictorial, for instance, features Palin wrapped in the
American flag, with a sidebar of pictures of her and her children.
"This flag photo was taken just days after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 in
2001. Sarah, like the rest of the nation, was trying to cope with the
attacks on American soil and demonstrating her patriotism," the caption
reads.
Patrick said her inspiration for the calendar was a simple one–she needs
money. She and her husband are in the process of selling their Wasilla home
to purchase a $250,000 condo in Anchorage that is somewhat out of their
price range. They are looking to close on their new home Dec. 1.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/29/sarah-palin-2009-calendar-girl/
OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS
**Bush's booby traps for Obama (LA Times 10/30/08)
By Rosa Brooks
Ever since Joe Biden suggested that the world would "test" Barack Obama if
he becomes president, the McCain campaign has been hoping to make political
hay out of the remark. "We don't want a president who invites testing from
the world," John McCain warned voters.
But every new president is "tested" by national security crises, some
predictable, some not. And I'm a lot less worried about the tests "the
world" may offer Obama than about the national security booby traps the Bush
administration is leaving behind for him…Some booby traps left by departing
administrations are harmless. Clinton pranksters allegedly removed all the
"W" keys from White House computer keyboards in January 2001, and outbound
Bush 41 staffers reportedly left drawers full of pencils cut down to
inch-long stubs. But no one got hurt.
If we can someday say the same about the booby traps this Bush
administration is leaving behind, we'll be very lucky.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks30-2008oct30,0,1403867.column
An Acorn Whistleblower Testifies in Court: The group's ties to Obama are
extensive. (WSJ 10/30/08)
By JOHN FUND
The Obama campaign denies it "has any ties" to Acorn, but Mr. Obama's ties
are extensive. In 1992 he headed a registration effort for Project Vote, an
Acorn partner at the time. He did so well that he was made a top trainer for
Acorn's Chicago conferences. In 1995, he represented Acorn in a key case
upholding the constitutionality of the new Motor Voter Act -- the first law
passed by the Clinton administration -- which created the mandated,
nationwide postcard voter registration system that Acorn workers are using
to flood election offices with bogus registrations.
Ms. MonCrief testified that in November 2007 Project Vote development
director Karyn Gillette told her she had direct contact with the Obama
campaign and had obtained their donor lists. Ms. MonCrief also testified she
was given a spreadsheet to use in cultivating Obama donors who had maxed out
on donations to the candidate, but who could contribute to voter
registration efforts. Project Vote calls the allegation "absolutely false."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533169940482893.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
Taxing the Dolphins:Another NFL team faces Obama's tax rush. (WSJ 10/30/08)
Don't think tax rates matter to business decisions? Ask H. Wayne Huizenga,
the owner of the Miami Dolphins, who declared earlier this week that he
intends to sell up to half his ownership in the NFL franchise before next
year. Why? Because as he told a Florida newspaper, Barack Obama "wants to
double the capital gains tax, or almost double it. I'd rather give it to
charity than to him."
Mr. Obama is in fact proposing to raise the capital gains tax to 20% from
15% -- which would be an increase of 33%, but Mr. Huizenga is close enough
for IRS work. His office confirmed to us that he stands by that statement,
though he prefers not to elaborate on it. Mr. Huizenga also has NFL company.
In July, we wrote about the Rooney family's musings about selling part of
the Pittsburgh Steelers to avoid the 45% death tax rate.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533091992582863.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
What We've Learned About McCain (WaPo 10/30/08)
By David S. Broder
From beginning to end, the campaign that followed has been plagued by
internal feuds and McCain's inability to resolve them.
The shortcoming was intellectual as well as bureaucratic. Like Jimmy Carter,
the only Naval Academy graduate to reach the Oval Office, McCain had an
engineer's approach to policymaking. He had no large principles that he
could apply to specific problems; each fresh question set off a search for a
"practical" solution. He instinctively looked back to Theodore Roosevelt and
the Progressive era, with its high-mindedness and disdain for the politics
of doling out favors to interest groups. But those instincts coexisted
uneasily with his adherence to traditional, Reagan-era conservatism -- a
muscular foreign policy, a penchant for tax-cutting and a fondness for
business.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903201.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
Call Him John the Careless (WaPo 10/30/08)
By George F. Will
From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has
characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism. Tuesday's probable
repudiation of the Republican Party will punish characteristics displayed in
the campaign's closing days.
Some polls show that Palin has become an even heavier weight in John
McCain's saddle than his association with George W. Bush. Did McCain, who
seems to think that Palin's never having attended a "Georgetown cocktail
party" is sufficient qualification for the vice presidency, lift an eyebrow
when she said that vice presidents "are in charge of the United States
Senate"?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903199.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
What? Me Biased? (NYT 10/30/08)
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
For the last year and a half, a team of psychology professors has been
conducting remarkable experiments on how Americans view Barack Obama through
the prism of race…They found that research subjects — particularly when
primed to think of Mr. Obama as a black candidate — subconsciously
considered him less American than either Hillary Clinton or John McCain.
Indeed, the study found that the research subjects — Californian college
students, many of them Democrats supportive of Mr. Obama — unconsciously
perceived him as less American even than the former British Prime Minister
Tony Blair.
It's not that any of them actually believed Mr. Obama to be foreign. But the
implicit association test measured the way the unconscious mind works, and
in following instructions to sort images rapidly, the mind balked at
accepting a black candidate as fully American. This result mattered: The
more difficulty a person had in classifying Mr. Obama as American, the less
likely that person was to support Mr. Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30kristof.html?pagewanted=print
American Stories (NYT 10/30/08)
By ROGER COHEN
Of the countless words Barack Obama has uttered since he opened his campaign
for president on an icy Illinois morning in February 2007, a handful have
kept reverberating in my mind: "For as long as I live, I will never forget
that in no other country on earth is my story even possible."… Nowhere else
could a 47-year-old man, born, as he has written, of a father "black as
pitch" and a mother "white as milk," a generation distant from the mud
shacks of western Kenya, raised for a time as Barry Soetoro (his
stepfather's family name) in Muslim Indonesia, then entrusted to his
grandparents in Hawaii — nowhere else could this Barack Hussein Obama rise
so far and so fast.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30Cohen.html?pagewanted=print
'Blah, blah, blah': McCain's remarks on nuclear waste storage show his
contempt for Nevada (Las Vegas Sun 10/30/08)
Editorial
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has said he would support the
use of Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as the dump site for
the nation's high-level nuclear waste. That is one of many reasons why
Nevadans should vote for Democratic opponent Barack Obama, who has said he
would kill the repository plan.
At a campaign stop Sunday in Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1,300 miles away from
Southern Nevada, McCain continued to show that he doesn't care about Nevada.
He did so by mocking Obama's concerns about how to safely store spent
nuclear fuel, something McCain brought up during their last debate.
"We talked about nuclear power," McCain said. "Well, it has to be safe
environment(ally), blah, blah, blah." That dismissive response, which drew
cheers and applause from Iowans at this McCain rally, showed just how out of
touch McCain is with the majority of Nevadans, who steadfastly oppose the
dump. If the federal government had instead planned for the dump to be in
Arizona, McCain's home state, do you think he would have taken Obama's
remarks so lightly?
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/oct/30/blah-blah-blah/
The Success of Early Voting (NYT 10/30/08)
Editorial
A lot is going wrong in this election, from malfunctioning electronic voting
machines to voters being purged mistakenly from the rolls. But one thing is
going very right: early voting. In the more than 30 states that allow early
or no-excuse absentee voting, voters have been casting ballots in record
numbers. Early voting has many advantages. The main one is that it makes it
likely that more eligible voters will participate in democracy.
Election Day has traditionally been held on a single day — a Tuesday.
Congress scheduled federal elections on Tuesdays because they worked well
for farmers and Sabbath observers. But in the 21st century, having one day
to vote is an antiquated relic. Voters have to fit in a visit to the polls
with their work, family and other responsibilities. Many cannot find the
time, particularly when lines are as long as they have been in recent times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30thu1.html?pagewanted=print
BUSH NEWS
*Bush to Highlight Success in War Against Terrorism (WSJ blog 10/29/08)*
By John D. McKinnon
President George W. Bush, riding low in the polls, isn't doing any
out-and-out campaigning for Republicans this week. But he's still hoping to
score a few points with voters on the national-security front.
In a speech scheduled for Thursday, Bush plans to highlight his
administration's success in preventing another terrorist attack in the U.S.,
making perhaps his strongest claim for credit yet.
"More than seven years have passed without another attack on our soil. This
is not an accident," Bush plans to say, according to an advance text of the
speech released by the White House. "Since 9/11, we have gone on the offense
against the terrorists abroad – so we do not have to face them here at home.
And we are standing with young democracies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond
as they seek to replace the hateful ideology of the extremists with an
alternative vision of liberty and hope."
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/29/bush-to-highlight-success-in-war-against-terrorism/
*Bush Administration to Talk With Taliban? (ABC News 10/29/08)*
By JONATHAN KARL and LUIS MARTINEZ
As the Bush administration reviews its strategy in Afghanistan, there is an
emerging consensus that the way forward should include reaching out to
supporters of the Taliban, and possibly even elements of the Taliban itself.
Several U.S. officials confirmed a report today in the Wall Street Journal
that the White House is actively considering taking part in talks with
tribal leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan who are associated with the
Taliban.
Officials said, however, that these talks would be led by either Afghanistan
or Pakistan, or both. The United States would play a secondary, supportive
role, the officials said.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6132704
*White House Orders Banks to Resume Lending Now (AP 10/29/08)*
WASHINGTON — An impatient White House prodded banks and other financial
companies Tuesday to quit hoarding billions of dollars flowing into their
vaults from Washington and start making more loans. Wall Street soared
nearly 900 points on bargain-hunting and hopes of a hefty interest rate cut
by the Federal Reserve.
The stock market's amazing climb, with its second-largest point gain ever,
was a welcome burst of good news for a nation suffering big job losses and
seemingly tumbling into a painful recession.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444509,00.html
OTHER NEWS
*Dow and S&P 500 fall on profit worry, GE outlook report (Reuters 10/29/08)*
By Kristina Cooke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as a big rally faltered
in the last minutes of trading on worry about the weakening corporate profit
picture after a news report raised questions about General Electric's
earnings outlook.
In a move that has been the trademark of the market's volatility ever since
Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy filing in mid-September, the Dow plunged more
than 300 points in the last 12 minutes, dashing prospects for the first
back-to-back gains in a month.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49B3PW20081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
*Global stocks, euro rally on emerging market gains (Reuters 10/30/08)*
By Carolyn Cohn
LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks and the euro rallied on Thursday, driven by
bargain-hunting and sweeping gains in emerging markets after the Federal
Reserve cut interest rates and opened swap lines to four developing
economies.
Investors saw a return to risk appetite and the carry trade and renewed
weakness in the dollar after the Fed chopped half a point off the fed funds
rate to 1.0 percent and left the door open to further cuts.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49S8PI20081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
*House to introduce second stimulus bill next month (Reuters 10/29/08)*
By Lisa Lambert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. state leaders, trade groups and economists
descended on the House of Representatives on Wednesday to help work out a
second economic stimulus bill that one influential Congressional member said
would be introduced on November 17.
Representative Jim Oberstar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told a hearing on jump-starting
the stalled economy that Congressional staff would be meeting throughout the
month and a stimulus bill would be introduced when Congress reconvenes next
month.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49S7KZ20081029?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
*New ACORN ad: Tell McCain, the GOP 'not this time' (CNN blog 10/29/08)*
By Jonathan Helman
The new ad, entitled "Not This Time," is shot in black-and-white and
features an African-American man who ages before viewers' eyes. "It happened
to him in 1960, 1965, and again in 2000. He was intimidated so he wouldn't
vote," an announcer says as a traditional Southern hymn plays. "Tell John
McCain: not this time," the announcer says as the ad ends, and the phone
number of McCain's Capitol Hill Senate office appears on screen.
"Senator McCain needs to instruct his operatives and supporters to cease and
desist. Nothing is more important to the fabric of our democracy than
protecting the rights of American voters," said Steve Kest, ACORN's
executive director, at a Wednesday press conference where the ad was
released.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/29/new-acorn-ad-tell-mccain-the-gop-not-this-time/
*Brunner seeks probe of GOP calls (Columbus Dispatch 10/30/08)*
By Josh Jarman
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner asked the state attorney general's
office yesterday to investigate get-out-the-vote telephone calls made on
behalf of the Ohio Republican Party in at least 19 Ohio counties.
The calls encouraged people to return absentee ballots they had requested.
Some voters who already had mailed their ballots, however, thought the calls
were coming from their county boards of election to inform them that their
ballots had not been received.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/30/Votercalls.ART_ART_10-30-08_A8_6OBO9LN.html?sid=101
*Rising Tide of Suits Filed in Search of Political Edge (WSJ 10/30/08)*
By JUNE KRONHOLZ
The number of lawsuits challenging election procedures could hit an all-time
high this year as political parties and their followers, expecting a tight
outcome Tuesday, angle for an edge that could help their candidate.
In the past few days, voters and the Republican Party have filed lawsuits
challenging the way elections are being run in Colorado, Pennsylvania, New
Mexico and Virginia.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122532888316282651.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy
*Early Voters Breaking Records (WaPo 10/30/08)*
By Jon Cohen and Kyle Dropp
For at least 16 million voters, the 2008 election is already over. Across
the more than 30 states that allow no-excuse absentee or early voting, votes
have been pouring in at a record pace, and the data show Barack Obama as the
clear beneficiary.
In the Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll, 59 percent of those who said
they had already voted backed Obama, and 40 percent indicated that they
supported John McCain. So far, the numbers are a near-mirror image of the
past two elections.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102904036.html
*The Decided Go in Droves to Vote Early (NYT 10/30/08)*
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
HENDERSON, Nev. — At grocery stores across Las Vegas, voters are casting
their ballots, and then shopping for bananas or hitting the slot machines a
few feet away.
About 100 people have voted from the windows of their cars, A.T.M. style, in
Orange County, Calif. Several busloads of voters pulled up to the Cuyahoga
County Board of Elections in Cleveland on Sunday, did what they came to do,
and then repaired to a church across the street for some fried chicken.
In all its forms, early voting has been an election year hit. Enormous lines
in Florida led Gov. Charlie Crist to issue an executive order extending
early voting hours statewide from eight hours a day to 12, while in Georgia
an elderly woman in Cobb County stood in the sun so long to vote that she
collapsed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30early.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
*Democrats dominate early voting in key states (AP 10/29/08)*
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Democrats outnumber Republicans among early voters in Iowa, North Carolina,
Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, according to statistics from
election and party officials in those states. Bush won all six in 2004, and
McCain needs to win most of them to claim the White House this year.
Georgia, another red state, doesn't track early voters by party, but it does
by race. About 1.4 million Georgians have already cast ballots, and blacks
are voting in disproportionate numbers. Black voters overwhelmingly support
Democrat Barack Obama, who is bidding to become the nation's first black
president.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARLY_VOTING?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*Partial early ballots: Dem voters outnumber GOP (CNN 10/29/08)*
By Thom Patterson
(CNN) -- Democratic early voters outnumber Republicans in key states,
according to incomplete election statistics, suggesting a surprising break
from traditional trends, said analysts.
Just a week before a historic Election Day, registered Democrats in North
Carolina are out-voting Republicans by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, according to
official election statistics.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/early.voting/index.html?eref=rss_politics
*Vote watchdogs warn of troubles on election day (LA Times 10/30/08)*
By Carol J. Williams and Noam N. Levey
Counting down to an election day expected to draw a record-shattering
turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the
Florida fiasco of 2000 could occur in any of a dozen battleground states.
Lawsuits are already flying in many of these states.
Voting rights advocates in Colorado, to take just one example, told a
federal judge Wednesday that the names of nearly 30,000 voters were recently
purged from the state registry in violation of federal law and ought to be
restored by election day. In a compromise, those voters will be allowed to
cast provisional ballots.
Across the battleground states, where Democrats had a 2-1 advantage in new
registrations, voting-rights groups contend the eleventh-hour verifications
demanded by Republican officials are attempts to disenfranchise the new
voters.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-voting30-2008oct30,0,1814361.story
*Democrats appear to have won voter-registration battle in Ohio (Dayton
Daily News 10/30/08)*
By Ken McCall
Of the 822,804 newly registered voters in the state, almost six in 10 — more
than 475,000 — are in the 16 counties that went Democratic in 2004
presidential election, a Dayton Daily News analysis of statewide voter
registration data has found. The 72 remaining counties that went for
President Bush in 2004 recorded some 347,000 voters… The analysis found that
almost 452,000 or 55 percent of the newly registered voters are under 30
years old. And more than a quarter, or 227,852, are 20 or younger. The
latest Dayton Daily News/Ohio Newspaper Poll found that likely voters 29 and
under favored Obama over McCain by 62 percent to 38 percent.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/10/30/ddn103008voters.html
*In Ohio, Wary Eyes On Election Process (WaPo 10/30/08)*
By Mary Pat Flaherty
CLEVELAND -- With Ohio still up for grabs in next week's presidential
election, the conversation here has expanded from who will carry the state
to how -- the nitty-gritty of registration lists, voting machines, court
challenges and whether it all will play out fairly… Political parties and
elected officials for weeks have been trading sharp accusations and
litigation over voting issues here, often for political advantage. But now,
among the people whose ballots are at stake, the question of whether their
votes will count has become deeply personal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102904545.html
*A win for purged voters (The Denver Post 10/30/08)*
By Felisa Cardona
Ballots cast by voters who have been canceled from the state's voter rolls
since mid-May will get extra oversight to make sure their votes are counted,
under an agreement reached late Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
Common Cause of Colorado, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and the Service
Employees International Union sued Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman,
alleging that his office had violated the National Voter Registration Act by
illegally purging about 31,000 eligible voters from the rolls 90 days before
the election.
The state insists the actual number is smaller.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10851260
*Judge: PA must have paper ballots ready if half of machines fail (CNN blog
10/29/08)*
By Adam Levine
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Pennsylvania must have paper ballots available for its
voters if half the machines at a polling place break down, a federal judge
ruled Wednesday. The state wanted paper ballots mandatory only if all the
machines in a polling place failed.
"Emergency back-up paper ballots shall be used thereafter until the county
board of elections is able to make the necessary repairs to the machine(s)
or is able to place into operation," Judge Harvey Bartle ruled. The state
will not appeal the decision. In a statement, Secretary of the Commonwealth
Pedro Cortes said the state will work with counties to ensure emergency
ballots are used consistently, and that there is a sufficient supply.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/29/judge-pa-must-have-paper-ballots-ready-if-half-of-machines-fail/
*An Obama-propelled increase in African-American turnout, already apparent
in early voting, may put more Democrats in Congress. (Salon 10/30/08)*
By Alex Koppelman
By Salon's count, the black vote could swing as many as 17 House seats
currently held by Republicans who are running in competitive elections. It
could also play a role in three campaigns for Republican Senate seats and in
one gubernatorial battle. With that in mind, the potential rise in
African-American turnout could be devastating to Republican hopes.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/30/black_vote/index.html
*New Registrations Give Georgia Blacks More Power at the Polls (NYT
10/30/08)*
By CARL HULSE
In Georgia, where Mr. Obama's organization worked hard to register new
voters but did not mount a full-blown campaign because the state seems
beyond his reach, black voters in Atlanta and the surrounding areas have
been standing in line for hours. Many are among the tens of thousands of
newly registered voters.
New registrations of black voters ran more than 25 percent higher this year
than four years ago, with especially high registration among black women.
Nearly 1.4 million Georgians have voted, according to the Georgia Secretary
of State's Office, and more than a third were black. (Blacks make up just
over 29 percent of registered voters in the state, which keeps track of
racial data under civil rights laws.) Early voting began Sept. 22, and this
week the state opened extra polling stations and extended their hours.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30chambliss.html?pagewanted=print
*Obama, seeing hope in early voting, bolsters Georgia push (McClatchy
10/29/08)*
By Halimah Abdullah
WASHINGTON — Just more than a month ago, Democratic presidential hopeful
Barack Obama's campaign pulled a number of field staffers out of Georgia and
sent them to such emerging battleground states as North Carolina.
That was before Georgia's early voting showed record-high Democratic
turnout, however, especially among African Americans, and polls found a
narrowing margin between the major presidential candidates.
That was also before Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss found himself fighting
for his political life against Democratic challenger and former state Rep.
Jim Martin, who's benefited from the Obama campaign's voter-registration and
get-out-the-vote efforts and from increased funding from the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/54982.html
*Mail ballot backlog poses problems for L.A. County voters (LA Times
10/30/08)*
By Jennifer Oldham and Ruben Vives
Thousands of Los Angeles County voters may not receive their mail-in ballots
in time to actually mail them in, county officials said Wednesday.
Clerks were racing to process about 13,000 last-minute vote-by-mail
applications while also handling 55,000 remaining voter registrations, said
Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan.
The 11th-hour backlog could lead to election day confusion, and officials
are advising voters who are unsure of their registration or mail-in-ballot
status to check the registrar's website at www.lavote.net. Although 220
phone operators are on duty, some callers said they have had difficulty
getting through.
"We are getting 18,000 phone calls coming in a day," Logan said. "The phone
vendors we deal with compared it to what happens when there's an earthquake
and the phone lines get jammed."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-vote30-2008oct30,0,506897.story
*Little Hope in a Little Town (WaPo 10/30/08)*
By Eli Saslow
WEST PLAINS, Mo. -- The billboard towers on private land above Route 63, but
it essentially acts as the public welcome sign for this city of about 10,000
nestled in the Ozarks. Raised on a hill that guards the town's main
entrance, it depicts a cartoonlike drawing of Barack Obama wearing a turban
above a message that has shaped many visitors' impressions of West Plains.
"Barack 'Hussein' Obama equals more abortions, same sex marriages, taxes,
gun regulations."
Since it was erected by a local conservative about a month ago, the
billboard has been criticized by political Web sites, media outlets and
travelers passing through West Plains as racist, factually inaccurate and
small-minded. More telling, though, has been the reaction -- or lack of it
-- in the town itself.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102904059.html
*Shays takes swipe at McCain (CNN blog 10/29/08)*
By Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – New England's lone House Republican appears to have publicly broken
with his party's standard-bearer, saying John McCain has not run a clean
campaign and is likely to lose his bid for the presidency.
"I just don't see how [McCain] can win," Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays told
the Yale Daily News earlier this week. "He has lost his brand as a maverick;
he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign." Shays, who in
2006 became the only Republican congressman from New England, perennially
finds himself in a heated re-election race.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/29/shays-takes-swipe-at-mccain/
*Analysis: Obama on his way toward election win (AP 10/29/08)*
By LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama has pulled ahead in enough states to win the
270 electoral votes he needs to gain the White House - and with states to
spare - according to an Associated Press analysis that shows he is now
moving beyond typical Democratic territory to challenge John McCain on
historically GOP turf.
Even if McCain sweeps the six states that are too close to call, he still
seemingly won't have enough votes to prevail, according to the analysis,
which is based on polls, the candidates' TV spending patterns and interviews
with Democratic and Republican strategists. McCain does have a path to
victory but it's a steep climb: He needs a sudden shift in voter sentiment
that gives him all six toss-up states plus one or two others that now lean
toward Obama.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/ROAD_TO_270?SITE=RIPAW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*D.C. think tank poised to ride Obama's coattails (AP 10/29/08)*
By Charles Babington
A Washington think tank with close ties to Obama and former president
Clinton is about to publish a 50-chapter book on how to run a new Democratic
administration.
The Center for American Progress already has produced a 26-page document,
widely distributed among Obama aides, describing what the last five
presidents did on each day of his transition. And if Obama wins the
presidency Tuesday, the group stands ready to fill top federal positions
with some of its staffers, many of whom worked for Clinton.
The Center for American Progress, formed five years ago to counteract
conservative think tanks, could become one of Washington's most influential
policy advocacy groups. And it could give Obama a valuable head start in
staffing agencies and drafting priorities for his administration, a daunting
task for any president-elect with 11 weeks between the election and
inauguration.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/10/29/dc_think_tank_poised_to_ride_obamas_coattails/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Top+political+stories
POLLS
*Poll: Obama surges in Colorado, makes gains on Electoral Map (CNN blog
10/29/08)*
By Paul Steinhauser
In a new survey — one of five new CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation
state polls released Wednesday — 53 percent of likely Colorado voters
questioned say that Obama is their choice for president, with 45 percent
backing McCain. That 8 point lead for Obama is double the 4 point advantage
he held in our last poll, taken two weeks ago.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/29/poll-obama-surges-in-colorado-makes-gains-on-electoral-map/
*AP Poll: Obama leads or tied in 8 crucial states (AP 10/29/08)*
BY RON FOURNIER and TREVOR TOMPSON
Less than a week before Election Day, the AP-GfK polls show Obama winning
among early voters, favored on almost every issue, benefiting from the
country's sour mood and widely viewed as the winning candidate by voters in
eight crucial states - Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North
Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AP_POLL_BATTLEGROUNDS?SITE=MAFAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
*Gap Narrows in Florida and Ohio, Not Pennsylvania (WSJ 10/30/08)*
By SARA MURRAY
New polling suggests the presidential race is tightening in the battleground
states of Ohio and Florida, though not in Pennsylvania, where Sen. John
McCain is fighting to flip a big swing state into his column.
Sen. McCain now is within striking distance in Florida, where Sen. Barack
Obama leads 47% to 45%, a new poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling
Institute finds. Less than a week ago, Sen. Obama led by five percentage
points there. (See the Qunnipiac poll.)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122529638479280635.html
*New polls: Pennsylvania's sewed up; Ohio, Florida close (McClatchy
10/29/08)*
By Mark Seibel
Barack Obama is holding on to leads in the three major battleground states —
Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania — though Florida is too close to call and the
other two have tightened, Qunnipiac University's new polling data report
Wednesday.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/54950.html*
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