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Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
Zogby: Don't believe the Dem hype -
race too close to call
Dem strategists:
landslide in the making
more voter fraud:
Indianapolis has
105%
of its population registered
Does ACORN have an office in
Indianapolis?
You
know they do...
ACORN
voter registration fraud:
individual filled out registration cards
72 times
Two
Ohio voters, including Domino's pizza worker Christopher
Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by
the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote
several times, even though they made it clear they'd
already signed up.
Barkley estimated he'd registered to vote "10 to 15" times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others.
Claims such as his have sparked election officials to probe ACORN.
... Barkley is one of at least three people who have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections as part of a wider inquiry into possible voter fraud by ACORN. The group seeks to register low-income voters, who skew overwhelmingly Democratic.
"You can tell them you're registered as many times as you want - they do not care," said Lateala Goins, 21, who was subpoenaed.
"They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter," she told The Post.
... A third subpoenaed voter, Freddie Johnson, 19, filled out registration cards 72 times over 18 months, officials said.
see also:
Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration
As Ayers connection deepens, Obama accuses
McCain
of scoring 'cheap political points'
Sen.
Barack Obama says the personal attacks levied against him by the
campaign of his presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, particularly
references to his association with 1960s anti-war radical Bill Ayers,
are an attempt to "score cheap political points."
CNN Report shows Obama's lying
about William Ayers
You’ll want to double-check the logo at the bottom left corner during this report. It really is CNN and Anderson Cooper fact-checking Barack Obama’s claims to have barely known William Ayers — and calling it dishonest.
John McCain & Sarah Palin... today's headlines with excerpts
Retired Air Force Col. Leo Thorsness, a Medal of Honor recipient who was a prisoner of war with McCain, will lead a contingent of vets backing the GOP presidential candidate today in Portland, Maine.
The group is slated to hold a press conference at 9:45 a.m. at the Maine Military Museum in South Portland.
Palin set to drop puck at NHL game
The GOP vice presidential nominee will drop the ceremonial first puck when the Philadelphia Flyers open the season against the New York Rangers on Saturday. Palin, the Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom," will join the winner of a team promotion for the "Ultimate Hockey Mom" to drop the puck...
Cindy McCain takes off her gloves
“I’m proud of my sons, but let me tell you, the day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,” Mrs. McCain said to a chorus of boos from the roughly 7,000 people in attendance.
“I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day, and see what it means, and see what it means to have a loved one serving in the armed forces, and more importantly, serving in harms way.”
Tenn. lawmaker's son indicted in Palin e-mail hacking
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, Tennessee entered the plea in federal court in Knoxville, the same day prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging him with intentionally accessing Palin's e-mail account without authorization.
Barack Obama & Joe Biden... today's headlines with excerpts'
REYNOLDS:
"I would love to have someone from Obama's campaign explain why the entire press corps, the Secret Service, and the local police idled for two hours in a Miami hotel parking lot recently because there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. It was not an isolated case.
...The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated."
Obama outspending McCain3-to-1 in battleground states
Over the last week, Obama has spent over $7 million more than McCain and the Republican National Committee spent in the battleground states.
McCain spent $10, 855, 000 while Obama spent $17, 445, 000 in overall ad spending during Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, according to TNSMI/Campaign Media Analysis Group and the University of Wisconsin advertising project.
In Florida during that same period Obama spent $2,213, 000 in media ads while McCain spent $659, 000.
Obama rejects McCain's mortgage buy-up plan
Barack Obama's top economic adviser criticized John McCain's mortgage buy-up plan on Wednesday, saying it would cause the government to lose money by paying too much for bad loans.
McCain's top economic adviser responded with a statement of his own in which he argued that Obama would "rather support a bailout of Wall Street than rescue Main Street America."
Biden supporter makes Biden-like gaffe
Jim
Pacillo, a recently laid-off bank worker, had warmed up the crowd for
Biden, but as he finished his introduction, he had an "oops" moment of
his own.
"Please help me today in welcoming the next vice president of the United States, John McCain!" Pacillo said...
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