LA Times endorses Obama for presidentPaper's first Dem nod ever; Wash. Post also backs Obama, Chi. Trib. too. The Denver Post editorial board has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President. Mostly, it's the economy. In addition, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has just released its Sunday endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama. Columnist William Kristol, a longtime McCain backer, calls the McCain campaign “close to being out–and–out dysfunctional,” concluding that “its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic.” And of course, the most unfortunate evidence of that “strategic incoherence and operational incompetence” was McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a person utterly unprepared for the high post in question.
Obama Demands Special Prosecutor Investigate GOP Voter Fraud Activities Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an "unholy alliance" between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting voter fraud, the Obama campaign demanded Friday that the U.S. special prosecutor looking into the U.S. attorneys scandal investigate the matter. General counsel Bob Bauer sent a letter to Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey charging that coordinated "misconduct" by McCain campaign representatives and GOP officials were relevant to the special prosecutor’s work, because the activities may relate to the dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys in late 2006.
McCain Using Same Robocall Firm That Helped Smear Him In 2000 In his efforts to attack Barack Obama, John McCain appears to have turned to the same political consulting firm that was responsible for spreading vicious smears about the Senator during the 2000 South Carolina GOP primary... According to campaign finance reports, the RNC has paid the firm more than $8 million this cycle. On Friday, Minnesota Democrats stated in a press release that FLS-Connect "may be behind the [RNC/McCain phone campaign]."
Want Palin's e-mails? That'll be $15 million --Even at that price, many records won't be available until after the election Sarah Palin's office has discovered a renewable resource to bring millions of dollars into Alaska's economy: the governor's e-mails. The office of the Republican vice-presidential nominee has quoted prices as high as $15 million for copies of state e-mails requested by news organizations and citizens. No matter what the price, most of the e-mails of Palin, her senior staff and other state employees won't be made public until at least several weeks after the Nov. 4 presidential election, her office told msnbc.com on Thursday.
More than 100,000 voted early Thursday More than 100,000 voters in North Carolina cast a ballot on the first day of early voting in an unprecedented rush to the polls amid a historic presidential election, according to elections data released Friday. Data from the State Board of Elections showed that 64 percent of voters who went to the polls Thursday were registered Democrats, while 21 percent of voters were registered Republicans. Another 15 percent were unaffiliated.
National Republicans Pull Ads in Louisiana The National Republican Senatorial Committee has decided to pull its television advertising out of Louisiana, a decision that drastically reduces the party's chances at its lone takeover opportunity in this election cycle. The ads, according to buy information obtained by The Fix, will end next Tuesday -- two weeks before the Nov. 4 election between Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) and state Treasurer John Kennedy (R).
Wall Street bankers in line for $70bn payout --Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash, the Guardian has learned. Staff at six banks including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup will pick up the payouts despite being the beneficiaries of a $700bn bail-out from the US government that has already prompted widespread criticism.
G.O.P. Donor Is Accused of Overcharging Pentagon --Harry Sargeant is finance chairman of Florida Republican Party and major fund-raiser for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign The Democratic chairman of a House investigative committee presented documents to the Pentagon on Thursday charging that a top Republican fund-raiser, Harry Sargeant III, made tens of millions of dollars in profits over the last four years because his contracting company [International Oil Trading Company] vastly overcharged for deliveries of fuel to American air bases in Iraq.
Banks borrow record $437.5 billion per day from Fed Financial institutions ran to their lender of last resort for record amounts of cash in the latest week, Federal Reserve data showed on Thursday. Banks and dealers' overall direct borrowings from the Fed averaged a record $437.53 billion per day in the week ended October 15, topping the previous week's $420.16 billion per day.
Flu Pandemic May Cost World Economy Up to $3 Trillion A [US Army engendered] flu pandemic could kill 71 million people worldwide and push the global economy into a "major global recession" costing more than $3 trillion, according to raised estimates by the World Bank of a worst-case scenario.
In Philly, Conservative Talk Radio Host Backs Obama — On his talk show on WPHT today, conservative Philadelphian Michael Smerconish endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. — Listen HERE. — Smerconish did so by reading a couple paragraphs from his pending op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after McCain comments — WASHINGTON — An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.
Campaign trail for SaturdayMcCain-Palin team10.18 Road to Victory Rally in Concord, NC 10.18Road to Victory Rally in Lancaster, PA Obama-Biden team10/18 Barack in St. Louis, MO @ 1pm ESTBarack Obama will be holding a Change We Need Rally at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri10/18 Barack in Kansas City, MO (LIVE) @ 7pm ESTBarack Obama will be holding a Change We Need Rally at the National WWI Museum at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. This event will be livestreamed on the HQ blog. 10/18 Jill in Cape Girardeau, MO @ 11am ESTJill Biden will be hosting a Canvass Kickoff for Change at Laborers' Local No 1104 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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