Last Updated Stories in presidential campaign 2008

Dozens of McCain Callers Protest Negative Obama Call Script

According to an article at TPM Election Central, in a show of integrity that chose principle over wages, up to 40 workers in Hobart, Indiana at Americall, a call center that hired workers to...

Colorado Secretary of State Sued for Voter Removal

An article, published on Colorado Ethics Watch, reports Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, a Republican candidate currently running for Congress, is being sued for the wrongful removal of voters from...

Race Does Matter in Pennsylvania

From the Nytimes.com: A union distributes a leaflet here titled “The Truth About Barack Obama,” which says: “Is he a Christian? Yes. Was he sworn in on a Bible? Yes. Was he born in America? Yes.” Still,...

Chicago Conservative Host Fantasizes Press Coverage of Obama Killing His Gran...

From an article at Cbs2chicago.com: Don Wade's become a Chicago radio institution by combining a very funny sense of humor with hard-edged conservative commentary. But Friday morning, even his co-host and wife,...

Scare Tactics Devised at the Republican Party of Pennsylvania

An article, picking up an Associated Press story, has reported a hateful e mail was sent from the offices of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania to 75,000 Jewish voters, warning them of the danger of a...

Barack Obama Cancels Events to Visit Ailing Grandmother

Senator Barack Obama will suspend his presidential campaign for 36 hours to visit his ailing grandmother, Mrs. Madelyn Payne Dunham in Oahu, Hawaii. His sister, May Soetoro-Ng, who teaches at La Pietra Hawaii...

McCain Campaign Meltdown as Election Day Nears

From Blame Game: GOP Forms Circular Firing Squad : At his Northern Virginia headquarters, some McCain aides are already speaking of the campaign in the past tense. Morale, even among some of the heartiest and most...

The 'Real' America, Really

Rosa Brooks, in the Los Angeles Times, writes: About 80% of Americans live in metropolitan areas, not small towns. A third of us are ethnic and racial minorities, but that's changing: Already,nearly 45% of...

Goldwater's Granddaughter For Obama-Biden

From an article entitled, Why McCain Won't Get Our Vote : There always have been a glimmer of hope that someday, someone would "race through the gate" full steam in Goldwater style. Unfortunately, this hasn't...

Republican Flyer Touts: Obama "Not Who You Think He Is."

The Nypost.com reports that flyers are being distributed in Missouri and Virginia, with the approval of the McCain-Palin campaign, attempting to again link Senator Obama with acts of terrorism. The article...

Four GOP Senators Disavow Ayers Terrorist Robocalls

Senator Gordon Smith, Republican from Oregon, joins Senators Olympia Snowe, Norm Coleman and Susan Collins, in distancing themselves from the automated calls being used by the McCain-Palin...

Descendants of the Enslaved Held by the McCain Family

The first video is footage from CNN, which aired today, October 20, 2008, a segment called The Black McCains, that serves as an introduction to the Black side of the McCain family, who trace their...

McCain-Palin Campaign Continues Slanderous Attacks

An article at Cbsnews.com provides the script of one of the latest automated call messages being used by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the states of Wisconsin, New Mexico, Virginia, Maine,...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Democrats in Ohio

In an MSNBC.com article, titled, High Court Rejects GOP in Ohio Voting Dispute, it states:The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties...

Obama's Plane Forced Into Unexpected Landing; NTSB Investigates 2nd Obama Fly...

UPDATE: This is the second recent incident involving Obama's aircraft.Update: In January, Obama's plane struck another aircraft while Obama's Cessna was taxiing at Midway Airport in Chicago. No one was hurt in that incident.Original story follows.Obama's Md-80 experienced...

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