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...themselves in hotel rooms with nothing better to do. In the past, John McCain has favored the movie route. Back in 2004, he went and saw Ray on Election Day. Now, his aides say, they may bring a DVD player to his hotel room to pass the time Tuesday afternoon...
...style jackets, pants and boots - appeared in front of a polling place in a predominantly black area of north Philadelphia around midday. One man was reportedly armed with a nightstick, but he was asked to leave by police, who had been summoned by a Republican poll watcher. By mid-afternoon, as media began to gather, one uniformed but unarmed man remained, handing out literature to voters, but he angrily refused to answer any questions. A credentialed Obama poll worker, who identified himself as James Orman, said the uniformed man was a representative of the Obama campaign, though he curtly refused...
...precinct told political blog Talking Points Memo that there had been no voter intimidation by the men, and indeed, McCain workers seemed to be baiting the Panthers by taking their photos before police arrived. The volunteer also said the man was a fully credentialed poll watcher. And by mid-afternoon, when TIME arrived, the remaining Panther did not seem to be making any effort to stop people from approaching the building, although he maintained a stiff and formal expression on his face and stood with a military bearing when not handing out literature...
...identified himself as a representative of the city's District Attorney showed up, spoke briefly with the Democratic poll workers and left, saying there was "no situation here" and advising reporters to stay away from the uniformed man. Election watchdog group The Committee of 70 reported at mid-afternoon that they were seeing only a handful of problems in the area, including poll workers who were improperly demanding driver's licenses from all voters at a crowded precinct in Chinatown, and a precinct in Northeast Philadelphia where the voter logs inexplicably excluded all names starting with letters Aa through...
...Honolulu for a last visit with his 86-year-old grandmother, who had been in poor health for a long time. The Illinois Senator learned of her death around 8 a.m. on Monday, but carried on with his campaign schedule without making it public until late in the afternoon. "He was prepared for it, and he knew. I think he was very, very gratified that he had been able to say goodbye," his chief strategist David Axelrod said, in explaining Obama's stoicism. "He feels he has a job to do here, and he's doing it. And that...