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...funeral took place Monday, Austin radio airwaves reverberated with ads criticizing one Baron-backed Democratic statehouse candidate for taking money, as the ad put it, from a trial lawyer who had paid off Edwards' mistress. At the funeral, Iowa Governor Chet Culver, a Democrat and friend of the Iowa-born Baron, said the late attorney loved spending hours on the telephone raising money for the Democrats. Culver also told Edwards that Baron was the ex-presidential candidate's "biggest fan." Edwards did not speak at the funeral. - By Hilary Hylton / Austin...
...Both campaigns expect a record-breaking turnout in Virginia, which has added more than 500,000 new voters to the rolls in the past year. The Obama campaign has worked particularly hard to try to win Virginia, which, as has often been said, has not elected a Democrat for President since Lyndon Johnson...
...lines for early voting were long, an ominous sign for today's vote. And the fact that people were willing to put up with it reflected voter frustration with Ohio's tanking economy. Bell Bonner, a black, 50-year-old mother, was in line to vote Monday afternoon for Democrat Barack Obama. She had her three toddler-aged children in tow and was calling up nieces and nephews, some of them first-time voters, to join her. "It's the recession," Bonner said when asked why. "It's crime in Cleveland, it's no jobs." She says, "Everybody who didn...
Obama looks to be in a statistical dead heat with McCain in the district (just as the Democratic challenger in the 25th, Joe Garcia, is neck-and-neck with the Cuban-American GOP incumbent, Mario Diaz-Balart). The key is how many Cuban-Americans Obama can poach from the GOP; and Obama volunteer Jose Realin thinks he can deliver them. Realin, 38, a bail bondsman and a lifelong registered Republican now on the Democrat's side, was heading out of the Obama campaign office in the 25th on Monday evening to knock on doors in Cuban neighborhoods. "They worry that...
...flashed a Zogby International poll released over the weekend that has McCain with a two-point lead. It's meant to spur Obama ground workers like Realin in their unlikely effort to put the Illinois Senator over the top in a state that hasn't voted for a northern Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt...