Recent for 10/29/08
- Bill Clinton, Obama Unite For Florida Crowd [VIDEO] · Bill Clinton appeared on stage with Sen. Barack Obama for the first time, in front of 35,000 wildly-cheering supporters at a rally near Orlando, Florida, broadcast live on local 11 p.m. news. (FOX) Both men had campaigned at separate rallies in Pennsylvania earlier in the day.
- McCain Slams LA Times On Obama-Khalidi Tape, Despite His Own Ties · Sen. John McCain says the Los Angeles Times would show a tape that purported to show him at a neo-Nazi event, therefore he can't understand why it won't release a video of Barack Obama in the company of Prof. Rashid Khalidi, chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Department at Columbia University. (FOX)
- Obama Airs 30-Minute Ad On Primetime National TV [VIDEO] · Sen. Barack Obama spent $4 million to air a 30-minute advertisement during primetime television, with visual appeals to suburban and rural, white, middle-class voters. (Bloomberg)
- Slave's Daughter, Age 109, Votes For Obama · A 109 year-old daughter of a former slave has cast her presidential ballot for Sen. Barack Obama. (Austin's American-Statesman) When she first began to vote 70 years ago -- and until 1966 -- she paid a poll tax, designed in part to keep blacks and poor people from voting.
- Senate Dems Eye Committee Chairs, Lieberman Likely Loser · Banking on victories this election and other changes, top Senate Democrats are already sizing up which plum committees they want to chair. (The Hill) Joe Lieberman is likely to be stripped of his Homeland Security assignment, though not expunged from the party for supporting John McCain.
- Palin Target Of New Ethics Probe · A complaint filed with Alaska's Attorney General claims Gov. Sarah Palin violated ethics laws by filing expense reports that unlawfully included expenses incurred by her children, and for later altering the reports to disguise those violations. (CBS News)
- Cold Rain, But Obama Rallies Pa. Crowd · A driving rain, mud and temperatures in the 30s did not stop Sen. Barack Obama from rallying a crowd of 9,000 people in Chester, Pa., wearing jeans and sneakers and with no protection from the elements. (Washington Post) His Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, canceled a rally in Quakertown, an hour away, despite his decision to target Pennsylvanian voters.
- Paterson: States Need Financial Rescue Package, Too · New York Governor David Paterson asked Congress Wednesday to provide state governments with a financial rescue package similar to the one it approved for the banking industry, arguing that the financial turmoil is threatening New York’s economy in ways far more severe than the 9/11 attacks. (NYT)
- NYT Previews Obama Infomercial Trailer · Tonight, Sen. Barack Obama airs a 30-minute informercial on national television to make the final case for his election, in a rare, $3 million investment, and the New York Times reviews the one-minute trailer. (NYT) It airs at 8 p.m. on NBC, CBS, Fox, Univision, MSNBC, BET and TV-One.
- Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations · Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign confirmed that it allows donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that can be used to evade limits on whether and how much an individual is legally allowed to give, or to mask a contributor's identity. (Washington Post)
- Obama, McCain Campaigns Trade Donor Charges · Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign allows donors to use prepaid credit cards, potentially allowing donors to exceed individual limits on donations. The campaign has taken donations from such fake names as Es Esh or Doodad Pro. (Washington Post)
- Internet Giants Ink Rights Deal · Microsoft, Google and Yahoo agreed to a global code of conduct pledging to resist government intrusion to free speech and created the Global Network Initiative. New guidelines limit what types of data the companies will share with authorities. (BBC)