News For Thursday Oct 9, 2008 News For Thursday Oct 9, 2008

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Ohio secretary of state must verify registrations - Added 7 weeks ago

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Ohio's top elections official to verify the identity of newly registered voters by matching them with other government documents. U.S. District Judge George C. Smith in Columbus...

County officials seeking Ohio voters' records - Added 7 weeks ago

Law enforcement officials in a southwest Ohio county populated with Democrat-leaning college students are seeking information on hundreds of people who registered to vote and cast ballots during the state's weeklong...

Biden: McCain's latest plan bails out banks - Added 7 weeks ago

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that Republican John McCain keeps switching responses to the economic crisis and now advocates a plan for troubled mortgages that would "reward banks and...

Political Play: Obama's advice: Obey your wife - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:OHAB139-1009081840 -->Domestic issues _ policy and bliss _ were on Barack Obama's mind Thursday as he campaigned in Ohio. The Democratic presidential nominee delivered speeches on the economy in Dayton,...

Palin wrongly suggests Congress bans oil exports - Added 7 weeks ago

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, touted by GOP presidential candidate John McCain as his expert on energy, seemed to have problems Thursday explaining whether the government bans oil exports _ especially from her state's North...

Obama calls McCain mortgage plan ill-advised - Added 7 weeks ago

Democrat Barack Obama told Ohio voters Thursday that Republican John McCain's mortgage buyout plan would cost them billions of dollars and reward bad behavior by lenders. Speaking in Dayton as he started a two-day bus...

Obama plans half-hour TV ad days before election - Added 7 weeks ago

Already advertising at record levels, Barack Obama has scheduled a half-hour commercial for prime time on Oct. 29, six days before Election Day. Obama campaign officials said the campaign had secured a 30-minute block...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 7 weeks ago

IN THE HEADLINES McCain says Obama link to ex-radical raises questions about honesty ... Obama says McCain mortgage plan would reward bad behavior of lenders at taxpayer expense ... Biden says McCain's mortgage plan...

Alaska: State with a long history of take and give - Added 7 weeks ago

Alaska is awash in billions of surplus dollars from the current high oil prices and a tax hike on the oil industry, but it remains at the forefront of states feeding at the federal trough. With Big Oil and U.S....

Bailout angst provides a push for Libertarian Barr - Added 7 weeks ago

Private markets fail, politicians from both parties jump to their rescue, and taxpayers get stuck with the bill. Libertarian candidate Bob Barr couldn't have scripted a better story line to argue that Republicans and...

Pro-Obama Catholic lawyer resigns board - Added 7 weeks ago

A Catholic law professor who served on a high-profile panel formed to address the church's clergy sexual scandal has resigned from the board of a conservative Catholic university after writing a column supporting...

McCain and Obama's energy proposals - Added 7 weeks ago

A look at some of the positions of the presidential candidates on energy and global warming: Republican John McCain: _Favors building 45 nuclear power reactors by 2030. Proposes no federal spending to help build the...

Voter registration boom favors Obama - Added 7 weeks ago

The surge in new voters that helped propel Barack Obama to his party's presidential nomination is carrying over to the general election _ 9 million newly registered voters who are overwhelmingly Democratic and could add...

Big Issue: Energy crisis hitting home - Added 7 weeks ago

When oil topped $100 a barrel earlier this year, and gasoline prices soared above $4 a gallon, Americans cried out for relief. Some called for more offshore oil drilling. Others pushed for the development of...

Cindy McCain claims Obama is waging dirty campaign - Added 7 weeks ago

Cindy McCain has accused Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama of running "the dirtiest campaign in American history." In remarks reported Tuesday by The Tennessean, she said she initially did not want her...

National Rifle Association endorses McCain - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:OHLIS102-1008081810 -->The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions. ...

Wednesday's late-night TV wrap-up - Added 7 weeks ago

Which late-night comedian poked fun at the presidential candidates' debate performance? That one. "During last night's debate, John McCain sparked a controversy when he referred to Barack Obama as 'that one,'" Conan...

Mormons renew calls for Calif. gay marriage ban - Added 7 weeks ago

Mormons are being asked by their church leaders to step up their already considerable efforts to pass a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California. Senior elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

GOP candidate challenges Sen. Kerry on AIG bailout - Added 7 weeks ago

Sen. John Kerry's GOP challenger called on him to sell any stock he has in insurance giant AIG and donate all campaign contributions from officials at the company to taxpayers. Republican Jeff Beatty said Wednesday the...

Washington's only contested US House race revs up - Added 7 weeks ago

For U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, Democratic challenger Darcy Burner is too inexperienced and left-leaning. For Burner, Reichert is ineffective and has sided with President Bush too often. If those arguments sound familiar,...

Todd Palin had unusual access to wife's staff - Added 7 weeks ago

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remained in the dark while her husband repeatedly asked top state officials to help get his former brother-in-law kicked off the state police force, Palin's husband and top aides said in...

GOP finds plucking off House Democrats difficult - Added 7 weeks ago

!P>!!-- pobj:NCASH202-0619070808 -->!!-- pobj:NCASH201-0619070808 -->By all rights, Asheville city councilman Carl Mumpower should be a rare political specimen this year, a Republican with a plausible shot at ousting a...

Economy heats race in Ohio 'barometer' county - Added 7 weeks ago

Waiting to get lunch at the Dari Creme's walk-up window, Denise Leport wore an Ohio State Buckeyes sweat shirt along with a frown as she considered this year's presidential candidates. "I'm not into either one,...

Report: Voter purges in 6 states may violate law - Added 7 weeks ago

Tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states, and the voters' exclusion appears to violate federal law, according to a published report. The...

Son of Tenn. Democrat indicted in Palin hacking - Added 7 weeks ago

The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hacking the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn. entered the plea...

Report: Both candidates increase health coverage - Added 7 weeks ago

John McCain's health plan would reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about 21.1 million people if fully put in place by 2010, while Barack Obama's would reduce the number by 26.6 million, an analysis predicts. Some...

Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration - Added 7 weeks ago

Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of...

Obama: McCain camp brings up Ayers to score points - Added 7 weeks ago

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Wednesday that Republicans are highlighting his association with a former 1960s radical in an effort to "score cheap political points" in the final weeks before the...

Obama rejects McCain's plan to buy mortgages - Added 7 weeks ago

Democrat Barack Obama's campaign criticized John McCain's mortgage bailout plan Wednesday, saying it would cause the government to lose money by paying too much for bad loans. McCain's proposal to spend $300 billion in...

McCain pledges balanced budget, criticizes Obama - Added 7 weeks ago

Republican presidential candidate John McCain promised Wednesday to balance the federal budget despite the nation's deepening economic distress. McCain said he would "confront" the massive federal debt and would...

Rivals competing for voters' trust on economy - Added 7 weeks ago

With the deepening U.S. economic crisis rippling around the globe, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain seem to agree the question facing anxious voters is: Who do you trust? "All we heard from Sen. McCain...

NRA ad uses Clinton's words against Obama on guns - Added 7 weeks ago

The National Rifle Association is turning to Hillary Rodham Clinton to bolster its criticism of Barack Obama's positions on gun issues. The NRA's Political Victory Fund planned a national newspaper ad Thursday reviving...

Biden calls McCain a sidekick, not a maverick - Added 7 weeks ago

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden called Republican John McCain an angry man making ugly attacks against the Democratic ticket to cover up his support for President Bush. "You can't call yourself a...

Esquire backs Obama in its first endorsement - Added 7 weeks ago

Esquire is backing Democrat Barack Obama for president _ its first endorsement in the magazine's 75-year history. The Illinois senator is "the only possible choice to lead the country," editors wrote in the November...

Anti-Obama e-mail sent with DeSoto Co. computers - Added 7 weeks ago

Government employees in a north Mississippi county were told not to use public property for political activity after a comptroller used a work computer to forward a chain e-mail asking people to pray for Barack Obama's...

Polygraphs proposed for Ind. congressional debate - Added 7 weeks ago

Two challengers for an Indiana congressional seat have agreed to be hooked up to lie detectors during a debate, but an official with the incumbent's party dismisses the idea as "bizarre." Ninth District Republican...

Today on the presidential campaign trail - Added 7 weeks ago

IN THE HEADLINES Obama says better days are ahead, urges Americans to stay calm during economic woes ... McCain, Palin renew criticism of Obama's policies ... Speaker at McCain calls his rival 'Barack Hussein Obama'...

Judge puts early voting in 3 Ind. cities on hold - Added 7 weeks ago

A federal judge blocked the opening of some early voting sites in a heavily Democratic area of Republican-leaning Indiana until he can hear arguments Friday on whether they would violate state law. U.S. District Judge...

McCain rally speaker refers to Obama's middle name - Added 7 weeks ago

For the second time in three days, a rally for the Republican presidential ticket invoked Democrat Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein, in an attempt to add to doubts about his background, faith and campaign. Before...

McCain's plan would buy bad homeowner mortgages - Added 7 weeks ago

John McCain's proposal to buy up bad home mortgages would use nearly half the $700 billion from the recent Wall Street bailout package to assist Americans directly, instead of indirectly by rescuing the nation's...

Post-debate polling favors Obama over McCain - Added 7 weeks ago

John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama "that one," Obama mocked McCain's "Straight Talk Express," and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday. CNN's national poll of debate...

Correction: UAW-McCain Ad story - Added 7 weeks ago

In an Oct. 7 story about the United Auto Workers union launching a presidential ad campaign, The Associated Press reported erroneously the number of UAW members living in the states where the ads will run. The UAW says...

Poll: Obama up by 10 points in Wisconsin - Added 7 weeks ago

Results of a Research 2000 poll done for WISC-TV in Madison, Wis., which asked likely voters in Wisconsin for their views on the presidential race. THE POLL: WISC-TV poll of 600 randomly selected likely voters in...

Once firmly in GOP column, NC now a battleground - Added 7 weeks ago

It's no coincidence that Barack Obama did his preparation for this week's presidential debate in North Carolina's western mountains. Or that on the day of the debate, Michelle Obama was rallying voters on the state's...

Study: Nearly all recent McCain ads were negative - Added 7 weeks ago

Nearly every TV ad Republican John McCain ran last week was negative, compared to just 34 percent of those by Democrat Barack Obama, according to an analysis released Wednesday. The harsher tone in McCain's ads mirrors...

McCain and Obama support cut in interest rates - Added 7 weeks ago

Statements by presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on the Federal Reserve's action Wednesday to cut interest rates. ___ I applaud the move by the Open Market Committee of the...

Analysis: Obama, McCain defy stereotypes in debate - Added 7 weeks ago

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain tried to rectify perceived shortcomings and played against type at key moments in Tuesday's presidential debate, but neither seemed to change a campaign dynamic that...

Early voters start casting ballots in New Mexico - Added 7 weeks ago

It was only midmorning on the first day of absentee voting, but 200 people had already shown up to cast their ballots at the clerk's office in Bernalillo County, New Mexico's most populous. "All indications are folks...

US House race in NM pits oilman against rancher - Added 7 weeks ago

Small details matter to rancher Ed Tinsley, the Republican nominee in the 2nd Congressional District race. He'll pore over contracts, analyzing fine print to ensure he understands what he's studying. It's a trait...

Wis. judicial panel: Punish new judge for false ad - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:WIRAC501-0215081527 -->State regulators say a Willie Horton-style campaign ad that suggested the first black member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court freed a child molester played so loose with the truth that the...