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...Barack Obama heads into the final 48 hours of his 21-month quest for the White House, everything about his operation exudes optimism and energy and momentum - demonstrated most dramatically at a downtown rally in Cleveland on Sunday evening, where an estimated 80,000 people sang along with Bruce Springsteen to "This Land Is Your Land." But with the finish line in sight, earlier in the day you could get a sense of the edginess that also surrounds this campaign, as Obama's plane headed toward this battleground state and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, checked his watch. "These hours...
...only by his wife Michelle, but by his daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, who generally have not been out on the trail with him. "In the last couple of days, I've been just feeling good," he said a bit wistfully as he introduced his family onstage in Cleveland. "Sometimes it's lonely on the road." But their family reunion was short-lived. At the city's airport, Michelle and the girls headed for a separate charter jet that was bound for home in Chicago, where school beckoned. Obama returned to his campaign plane, and the countdown...
...state's opposite corner, Obama is projected to win big in Cleveland, Akron and Canton, which were suffering long before Wall Street imploded. McCain's two-day bus tour through the region this week was aimed at trying to pick off a few outlying, affluent suburbs where his tax plan is popular. Yet Obama still looks strong there. "If Obama can run up big numbers in the suburbs outside Cleveland, then this thing could be a blowout," says Mike Curtin, publisher emeritus of The Columbus Dispatch...
...Bruce Springsteen is scheduled to open for Obama in Cleveland on Sunday. Former President Bill Clinton introduced him in Kissimmee, Florida, on Wednesday. And on Friday Obama became the first presidential candidate to inspire Al and Tipper Gore back on the campaign trail in Florida, the state that cost Gore the presidency in 2000. Returning to the hotel in Kissimmee Wednesday night, the traveling press were surprised to find actor Jimmy Smits - who played a presidential candidate roughly based on Obama in the final season of the The West Wing. Smits had also been stumping for Obama that...
...Early this week, Cleveland Browns tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. revealed that staph (short for Staphylococcus) infection had sent him to the Cleveland Clinic for three days, and he accused the Browns of asking him to cover it up. Pro football teams are notoriously reluctant to reveal any information on player injuries, but since six different Browns have caught the bug since 2005 - Winslow has had it twice - the team's medical management looked suspect to some observers. "There's obviously a problem [with staph] and we have to fix it," Winslow told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Just look...