Pew Poll: McCain Support Continues Downward Spiral

Obama leading among registered voters 52%-36%, among those already voting it's 53%-34%, and among likely voters it's 53%-38%. Pew is one of the pollsters that emphasizes contacting cellphone-only voters.

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Ashley Todd, PA Racist Hoax "Victim," Was Paid Employee

Last week, a troubled young woman handed the McCain campaign a Willie Horton-style race card, and the media helped them play it. Something was missed in the reporting of the story, however. Though Ashley Todd was a paid employee of the College Republican National Committee, nearly every report demoted her to the role of volunteer.

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Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather

At least three dozen workers at a telemarking call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents. Nina...

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Pennsylvania Republicans Send False Anti-Obama E-mail

A new e-mail making the rounds among Jewish voters in Pennsylvania this week falsely alleged that Mr. Obama “taught members of Acorn to commit voter fraud,’’ and equated a vote for Senator Barack Obama with the “tragic mistake” of their Jewish ancestors, who “ignored the warning signs in the 1930’s and 1940’s.”

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Foreclosure activity rises 70 percent

The number of homeowners ensnared in the foreclosure crisis grew by more than 70 percent in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2007.

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Arne Carlson, Former GOP Governor, Endorses Obama

Carlson said Thursday that the Illinois senator's stances on the Iraq war, the economy and green energy goals won him over. Carlson, who served from 1991 to 1998, also cited recent comments by GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann questioning whether politicians have "pro-America or anti-America views."

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CC Goldwater: Why McCain Has Lost Our Vote

Barry Goldwater's granddaughter explains why she, and several other members of her family will be rolling up their sleeves with Obama/Biden

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Economy Crashes but War Profiteers Doing Fine

While Joe the Taxpayer is stocking up on canned spam, candles, ammunition, and recipes for dog meat, the war pigs from Raytheon, Northrup-Grumman, and Lockheed-Martin are popping the corks on the bubbly aboard their private yachts. The New World Order: by invitation only, peasants. Now get back to work.

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McCain Hired GOP Operative Accused of Voter Reg Fraud

A McCain campaign joint committee has paid $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative who has been accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states. A joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June.

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The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - New

3 Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week. This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping

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California GOP had Same Voter Registration Problems as ACORN

Faked names on voter registration forms. Error rates as high as 60 percent. Firing the people responsible for these errors. Investigations launched by local and state police. Sound familiar? This is not ACORN in the 2008 election's final days. This is the California Republican Party and its contractors in 2006.

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BREAKING: Head of GOP Voter Reg. Outift Arrested

Head of California GOP voter registration outfit charged with voter registration fraud, according to CA Sec. of State's office. The firm, YPM, also under investigation in several states for allegedly illegally switching thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican...

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Documentary Banned By the Bush Admin to be shown on PBS

Scott Horton reports today that PBS may have refused to nationally air a controversial documentary on the use of torture by the U.S. government in order to protect its funding.

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The Acorn Story

ACORN accusations false and overblown!

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League Of Conservation Voters Gives McCain 0% Rating

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has repeatedly boasted about his record on the environment and energy issues. Today, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released its 2008 National Environmental Scorecard — giving McCain a 0 percent rating

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Steering Committee 2 Seek Prosecution of Bush For War Crimes

By Sherwood RossMassachusetts law school Dean Lawrence Velvel will chair a Steering Committee to pursue the prosecution for war crimes of President Bush and culpable high-ranking aides after they leave office Jan. 20th.

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Duncan Hunter's son caught receiving donations for earmarks

Defense contractors who received millions of dollars in government earmarks arranged by Rep. Duncan Hunter are now helping to fill the campaign coffers of his son. Officials at several companies have benefited from the pet project spending requests that the veteran Republican lawmaker inserted into often-unrelated legislation.

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Fox News' faux documentary sets new low - Los Angeles Times

Sean Hannity's Sunday report, 'Obama and Friends: The History of Radicalism,' relied on innuendo and guilt by association to label the Illinois senator a dupe of the shadowy forces of the left.

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Nixon Official and Reagan Friend Funded Ayers Charity work.

A litany of McCain lies exposed. The Annenberg Challenge (CAC), of which Ayers wrote the grant, was funded by Republican Walter Annenberg, an Ambassador under Nixon and friend and supporter of President Reagan's. Obama was recruited to the bipartisan Board by Pat Graham, not Ayers. And no, Ayers never held a fundraiser for Obama. Read the facts.

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Palin Charged Taxpayers $13k to Attend Her Church

And yet another shoe drops. On the heels of the troopergate investigation finding she abused her power, we have a report showing she bilked the taxpayers for attending her church. An Associated Press review of the Republican vice presidential candidate’s record as mayor and governor reveals her use of elected office to promote religious causes, sometimes at taxpayer expense and in ways that blur the line between church and state. Since she took state office in late 2006, the governor and her family have spent more than $13,000 in taxpayer funds to attend at least 10 religious events and meetings with Christian pastors, including Franklin Graham, the son of evangelical preacher Billy Graham, records show.Airplane and per diem fees: $639.50Trampling the first amendemnt: Priceless

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Latest polls: West Virginia, New Hampshire, Virginia - BLUE

House Finally Releases Plan for Carbon Cap and Trade

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have finally released their highly-anticipated draft legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

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AIG planning another executive retreat.

Really, what more needs to be said.

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FCC deepens probe into Pentagon TV analyst payola

The FCC is asking former military officers for details on their participation in a campaign to promote the Department of Defense's Iraq policy on national news program without proper disclosure.

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Republican Navy Rear Admiral Endorses Obama

Retired Rear Admiral John Huston discusses his support for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

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Federal Judge Orders 17 Guantánamo Detainees Freed

Seventeen Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay must be freed and allowed into the United States, a federal judge ruled.

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Veterans of America Group Gives Mccain a "D"

Today, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America released its congressional scorecard for the 110th Congress, and awarded McCain a grade of “D” for his votes against veterans’ priorities. The grade makes McCain one of only four Senators to fall on IAVA’s “D List” — and marks a repeat performance for him, after receiving a “D” for his 109th...

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Breaking McCain's Back: Obama takes 6 point lead in Ohio

Despite McCain-Palin's knowingly false and vicious smears, or perhaps because of them, Barack Obama has the upper hand in the race for the state of Ohio, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, putting Republican John McCain at a disadvantage in a state considered vital to his chances of winning the White House in November.

The state's voters, long suffering from a poor economy and newly battered by the turmoil in the financial, credit and housing markets, give Obama stronger marks on handling the economy, creating jobs and dealing with tax policy. The senator from Illinois also has a big lead as the candidate more in tune with the economic problems people are confronting, a significant benefit as more than half of all voters consider the economy and jobs the campaign's top issue.

Overall, among likely voters in the new poll, 51 percent said they would support Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), if the election were held today, while 45 percent said they would back McCain and his vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

McCain has the edge on handling the U.S. fight against terrorism and, narrowly, the Iraq war, but those issues are far less important this year. Just 9 percent of voters call them their top issues.

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Obama Leading McCain in New Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota

Obama, an Illinois senator, leads 49 percent to 42 percent among Ohio voters, according to a Columbus Dispatch poll of 2,262 likely voters released yesterday.The survey, conducted Sept. 24 to Oct. 3, shows a change from a poll by the newspaper before the parties' nominating conventions, when McCain had a single percentage-point advantage. The st

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Virginia: Obama 53% vs. McCain 43%

McCain is losing white voters, male voters, pro-choice voters, etc. McCain has lost his lead in EVERY region of Virginia now.

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McCain: Iraq Is ‘A Peaceful And Stable Country Now’

Today, Time Magazine published an interview with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that it conducted aboard McCain’s campaign airplane. Reporters James Carney and Michael Scherer described McCain as “prickly” and “at times, abrasive” during the course of the interview.Carney and Scherer noted to McCain that the Iraqi government is calling for a deadline Iraq Sept 08Friday: 1 US Soldier, 3 Iraqis Killed; 3 Iraqis WoundedThursday: 39 Iraqis Killed, 65 WoundedWednesday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 37 WoundedTuesday: 1 US Soldier, 9 Iraqis Killed; 20 Iraqis WoundedMonday: 1 US Soldier, 8 Iraqis Killed; 15 Iraqis WoundedSunday: 51 Iraqis Killed, 138 WoundedSaturday: 1 U.S. Soldier, 13 Iraqis Killed; 29 Iraqis WoundedFriday: 1 US Soldier,11 Iraqis Killed;13 Iraqis WoundedThursday: 1 US Soldier, 15 Iraqis Killed; 24 Iraqis WoundedWednesday: 1 US Soldier, 43 Iraqis Killed: 35 Iraqis WoundedTuesday: 1 US Soldier, 19 Iraqis Killed; 27 Iraqis WoundedMonday: 1 US Soldier, 40 Iraqis Killed; 18 Iraqis WoundedSunday: 20 Iraqis Killed, 114 WoundedSaturday:16 Iraqs Killed, 41 WoundedFriday: 16 Iraqis Killed, 20 WoundedThursday: 20 Iraqis Killed, 34 WoundedWednesday: 10 US Soldiers, 18 Iraqis Killed; 79 Iraqis WoundedTuesday: 12 Iraqis Killed, 46 WoundedMonday: 1 US Soldier, 38 Iraqis Killed; 68 More WoundedSunday: 1 US Soldier, 17 Iraqis Killed; 24 Iraqis WoundedSaturday: 28 Iraqis Killed, 49 WoundedFriday: 44 Iraqis Killed, 99 WoundedThursday: 27 Iraqis Killed, 28 WoundedWednesday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 24 WoundedTuesday: 15 Iraqis Killed, 33 WoundedMonday: 26 Iraqis Killed, 52 WoundedSunday: 20 Iraqis Killed, 26 WoundedSaturday: 25 Iraqis Killed, 60 WoundedFriday: 1 US Soldier, 7 Iraqis Killed; 17 Iraqis WoundedThursday: 2 US Soldiers, 8 Iraqis Killed; 13 Iraqis WoundedWednesday: 15 Iraqis Killed, 28 WoundedTuesday: 1 US Soldier, 20 Iraqis Killed; 43 Iraqis WoundedMonday: 1 US Soldier, 5 Iraqis Killed; 26 Iraqis Woundedhttp://antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13483

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McCain aides quit over Burma ties

Two aides to Republican presidential nominee John McCain have stood down over ties to a lobbying firm that has represented Burma's ultra-fascist military leaders, but only after their story became known.Both Mr Goodyear and the second aide to resign this weekend, Doug Davenport, worked for the lobbying firm DCI, the former as its chief executive.Newsweek magazine revealed on Saturday that DCI was paid more than $300,000 (£150,000) by Burma's military leadership for lobbying work to improve its image in the US.Offering his resignation as convention coordinator shortly afterwards, Mr Goodyear said he was standing down "so as not to become a distraction in this campaign".

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Carl Bernstein: What the Palin-Biden Debate Really Told us

Who won the Palin-Biden debate? Barack Obama, I suspect.Who was the big loser? In an historic fortnight that had already underscored his erratic nature, John McCain.Sarah Palin's task was an impossible one: to demonstrate that she is ready to be president of the United States. McCain put her in that impossible position; and her performance -- all prep and no depth -- demonstrated the bind he has put himself in.Yes, he "energized the base" with his Hail Mary pick of Palin as a running mate. But he also demonstrated cynical disregard for the requirement of stable governance were he to be elected president, and then -- through his incapacitation or death -- Palin be called upon to exercise the powers of the presidency.Just how scary a notion that is went on full display last night: She appeared to lack any semblance of the requisite depth, knowledge, or sense of history we should expect in a president or vice president; then she sought to excuse it by saying, "I've only been at this for five weeks."

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GOP Congressman Retires Because GOP Is Corrupt

I don't blame him, he's just one of a very few that have said enough is enough.

Tom Davis Gives Up

By PETER BAKER

The Republican cloakroom of the House of Representatives is a strangely narrow room that bends around a corner and hardly seems like much of an antechamber for the barons of American politics. Members negotiate tight spaces between the furniture, stepping around one another to find an open seat to while away the breaks, maybe pick up a newspaper or chat with a colleague.

On a desultory afternoon last month, Representative Tom Davis cruised through the cloakroom on his way to the floor to manage a bill, a mobile telephone pressed to his ear as he waved me to follow. We entered the chamber where war, slavery and impeachment have been debated, and he headed to the lectern while I sat a couple rows back. Davis clicked his phone shut and addressed the mostly empty chamber: “Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on H. R. 5683, the Government Accountability Office Act of 2008.”

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How Sarah Palin blew it - Joan Walsh - Salon.com

Salon Editor in Chief, Joan Walsh, shares political commentary and news on her daily blog. There were two key moments for me when Sarah Palin blew it badly. One was substantive, one was symbolic. The substantive was her bizarre statement about being happy that Dick Cheney had expanded the powers of the vice-presidency, and wanting to expand the powers more. I think that's what she said, it was one of many moments I didn't entirely understand her point, but I got her overall meaning. Biden came back with a decisive: "Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president in American history," and he defended the existing limits on vice-presidential power. Point: Biden. Big time.The symbolic moment Palin flubbed was subjective, of course. But I instant-messaged a friend that she lost the debate when Biden choked up over losing his wife and child in a car accident in which his sons were critically injured -- and she went straight back into "John McCain is a maverick." I truly expected her to express human sympathy with Biden, and her failure to do so showed me something deeply wrong with her. But maybe that's just me.

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Lobbyist Hired by Freddie Mac to Work on McCain Is Now Senat

Mark Buse, a longtime McCain adviser who had been staff director of the Senate commerce committee, signed on as a Freddie Mac lobbyist, and his firm, ML Strategies, earned $460,000 in lobbying fees in late 2003 and 2004, according to lobbying disclosures. Buse is now chief of staff at McCain's Senate office.Buse was one of many strategic hires made by Freddie Mac in its efforts to sew up support and manage opponents on Capitol Hill, a push that peaked in 2004 with the retention of 34 outside lobbying firms. Over the past decade, Freddie spent more than $95 million on lobbying, while its sister company, Fannie Mae, spent more than $79 million. McCain's own entanglements include his campaign manager, Rick Davis, who earned more than $2 million as president of an advocacy group that defended Fannie and Freddie against stricter regulation. Davis's lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, also received monthly payments of $15,000 from Freddie Mac as recently as August. When mortgage giant Freddie Mac feared several years ago that Sen. John McCain was too outspoken on the issue of executive pay, it pinpointed a lobbyist known for his closeness to McCain and hired him to work with the senator.

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Palin `Troopergate' Firing Probe Can Go Forward, Judge Says

Alaska Republican lawmakers and the state attorney general lost their bid to block a legislative investigation of Governor Sarah Palin's firing of the state police chief. Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Republican lawmakers and the state attorney general lost their bid to block a legislative investigation of Governor Sarah Palin's firing of the state police chief.In his ruling yesterday, issued minutes before the start of the vice-presidential debate, Alaska state court Judge Peter Michalski said the Alaska Legislative Council can move ahead with its investigation, including having the state Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena Palin aides to testify.``It is legitimately within the scope of the Legislature's investigatory power to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the termination of a public officer,'' Michalski wrote in his ruling.

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QUESTION: Alaska trooper tasers son & no charges files?

Could someone explain this to me? If the Alaska Trooper, Wooten - the center of the storm and Sarah Palin's ex-brother-in-law, had tasered his son, why wouldn't Child Protective Services been called in (immediately) and why wouldn't Wooten have been charged with some kind of child abuse?

This story makes very little sense. And if Wooten has a history of abusing children, why would there be a custody battle in court? Wouldn't the children immediately go to the mother?