"Eight years is enough. Eight weeks was
enough. We have a chance to redeem this country, to prove we're better than
this, that which Bush has made of us."
"With the switch of Colorado
(9 electoral votes) and Indiana (11 electoral votes), CNN now estimates that if
the election were held today Obama would win states with 286 electoral votes and
McCain states with 163, with 89 electoral votes still up for grabs. Two-hundred
and seventy electoral votes are needed to clinch the presidency."
PITTSBURGH (AP) —
Pittsburgh police say a McCain campaign
volunteer made up
a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and
having the letter
"B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired
attack.
Maurita Bryant,
the assistant chief of the police department's
investigations division, says 20-year-old Ashley
Todd is being charged with making a false report to
police.
Todd, of College
Station, Texas, initially said a black man robbed
her
at knifepoint
Wednesday night and then cut her cheek after seeing
a McCain sticker on her car.
Powell endorses Obama The late,
heavyweight endorsement on
Meet the Press comes as Obama's
seeks to bury McCain in the home stretch, and Powell is one of the few figures
whose endorsement
seems to come with a meaningful
stamp of approval, in this case on national security issues. The move by Powell,
a longtime McCain
friend and admirer, is a real loss
for the Republican, even if Powell waited until the trajectory of the race
seemed clear. "Obama
displayed a steadiness. Showed
intellectual vigor," Powell said.
"He has a definitive way of doing
business that will do us well."
Correction: Debate
Fact Check Story
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an Oct. 15
story fact-checking the
presidential candidates' debate, The
Associated Press incorrectly reported that presidential
candidate Barack Obama overstated the proportion of American
households that would see tax cuts under
his economic plan.
The Democrat specified that he was
talking about "working Americans," and the figure he cited — 95
percent — is essentially correct, according to the Tax Policy
Center, which calculated the figures.
"Joe
Biden Gave The Best Debate Performance Of His Life"
Who Won The
VP Debate? Biden Scores Big
During the course of the debate, CNN was running
a viewer response line for uncommitted voters in
Ohio. Overall the numbers reflected a very
strong performance for Biden. And while Palin
scored well, at times, among this crowd, the
dial lines indicated that she remains a
controversial figure among females in that
state. Biden repeatedly won high accolades on a wide
range of topics.
Story...
Biden Scores Big!
V.P. Debate: Clinton Weighs In
(CNN) — Hillary Clinton issued
a statement shortly after the debate praising Joe Biden's performance:
“Tonight's debate underscored the stark choice American families face in this
election," she said. “I've known Senator Biden a long time – as Americans saw
tonight, he is a strong, passionate and experienced leader. Like Barack Obama,
Joe Biden understands both the economic stresses here at home and the strategic
challenges in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. “We saw yet again that
Senator McCain and Sarah Palin will offer only more of the same failed policies
of the Bush Administration. America's hardworking Middle Class families deserve
better.”
"The presidential race may
still be close in the polls, but the Congressional races are pointing toward a
landslide for the Democrats. Few dispute the prediction that the Republicans are
in for a whoopin' on November 4th."
Up to 30 Republican House
seats could be lost in what would be a stunning repudiation of their
agenda. The Republican reps are so scared of losing their seats, when this
"financial crisis" reared its head two weeks ago, they realized they had just
been handed their one and only chance to separate themselves from Bush before
the election, while doing something that would make them look like they were on
the side of "the people."
Capitol Hill sources are
telling me that senior McCain people are more than
concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock
debate and a mock press conference; both are being
described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was
quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain
people want to move this first debate to some later,
undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside
are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."
It falsely claims in mailers and TV ads that
Obama plans to ban handguns, hunting ammo and use of a gun for home defense.
Summary A National Rifle Association advertising campaign distorts Obama's
position on gun control beyond recognition. The NRA is circulating printed
material and running TV ads making unsubstantiated claims that Obama plans to
ban use of firearms for home defense, ban possession and manufacture of
handguns, close 90 percent of gun shops and ban hunting ammunition. Much of what
the NRA passes off as Obama's "10 Point Plan to 'Change' the Second Amendment"
is actually contrary to what he has said throughout his campaign: that he
"respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms" and "will protect
the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own,
transport, and use guns." The NRA, however, simply dismisses Obama's stated
position as "rhetoric" and substitutes its own interpretation of his record as a
secret "plan." Said an NRA spokesman: "We believe our facts." Perhaps so, but
believing something doesn't make it so. And we find the NRA has cherry-picked,
twisted and misrepresented Obama's record to come up with a bogus "plan."
From
"Sen. John McCain has spent much of his two
decades in Congress pushing deregulation, but the Republican presidential
nominee is continuing his election year migration toward more government control
of the economy as the nation faces one of its greatest financial crises since
the Great Depression."
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FROM THE NEW YORK
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Toning Down
Debates for Palin's Inexperience
Full Story...
At the insistence of the McCain
campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the
Republican nominee for vice president,
Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic
rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will
have shorter question-and-answer
segments than those for the presidential
nominees, the advisers said.
There
will also be much less opportunity for
free-wheeling, direct exchanges between
the running mates.
McCain
advisers said they had been concerned
that a loose format could leave Ms.
Palin, a relatively inexperienced
debater, at a disadvantage and largely
on the defensive.
FROM THE ANCHORAGE
DAILY NEWS - Palin's Explanation Shifted
Palin's
explanation of why she fired Monegan on July 11 has shifted.
Monegan said in an interview
with The Associated Press earlier this month that he wasn't
given an explanation when Nizich told him he was being removed.
Six days later, Andrew Halcro,
a former legislator and one of Palin's two 2006 gubernatorial
election opponents, wrote in his blog that an anonymous source
told him Palin had fired Monegan because he'd refused to fire
Wooten.
The next day, Palin released a
statement denying the allegations. Monegan responded publicly by
saying he felt pressure to fire Wooten from both Palins, former
Chief of Staff Mike Tibbles, Kreitzer and Bailey.
Palin
said Monegan was let go over differing budget priorities and his
failure to make progress on key goals, including reducing
trooper vacancies and fighting alcohol abuse in rural Alaska.
Yet, when Monegan was fired,
Nizich offered him another job as head of the state's Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board, which regulates alcohol sales statewide.
Palin's staff, meanwhile,
suggested that Palin had been upset with Monegan over the
ongoing negotiations with the troopers' union because Monegan
was pushing for more money for the force and opposed her push to
strengthen its integrity clause -- a move that might have made
firing Wooten easier.
Last
week, as national interest in Troopergate blossomed, the McCain
campaign gave another reason for Monegan's firing --
insubordination.
McCain operatives called
Monegan a "rogue" who repeatedly tried to work outside normal
channels for requesting money; Monegan said Palin never
expressed any displeasure with him.
Monegan has come to regard her
stated explanations as nonsense: "It boiled down to one issue,"
he told the AP. "There was only one reason that I got fired."
Wooten.
FROM ABC NEWS... New Doubts Over
Palin
An
internal government
document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent
explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted
the now-contested state probe into Troopergate.
Fighting
back
against allegations she may have fired her then-Public
Safety
Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along
with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a
legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a
"rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's
directives.
"The last straw,"
her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to
Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an
aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project,
expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year
for five years, would have been the first of its kind in
Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible
rape.
The McCain-Palin
campaign echoed the charge in a press release it
distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal
filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the
unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.
But the governor's
staff authorized the trip, according to an internal
travel document from the Department of Public Safety,
released Friday in response to an open records request.
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Palin
said Monegan was let go over differing budget priorities and his
failure to make progress on key goals, including reducing
trooper vacancies and fighting alcohol abuse in rural Alaska.
Last
week, as national interest in Troopergate blossomed, the McCain
campaign gave another reason for Monegan's firing --
insubordination.
Fighting
back
against allegations she may have fired her then-Public
Safety
Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along
with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a
legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a
"rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's
directives. 
