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...McCain's first Montana TV ads appeared just two weeks ago. There appears to be some kind of rushed response to the tightening at the polls. The Montana state GOP challenged the registration of 6,000 voters in seven predominantly Democratic counties but drew a stern admonition from a federal judge. The Republican executive director lost his job shortly after...
Texas: Who Did Early Voters Go for? 10:45 a.m. E.T. Visits by Presidential candidates Obama and McCain have been as rare as jackalope sightings in Texas this campaign season, but apparently that has not dampened Texans' enthusiasm for the contest. Early voting turnout broke all the records this year with 8.5 million voters casting their ballots in the state's 15 most populous counties before early polls closed on Halloween eve. When the early vote totals come in from the state's other 239 counties the numbers could be staggering and Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade is anticipating...
...Montana: McCain's Late Stand, 10:30 a.m. E.T. Montana has only three electoral votes and has gone GOP in almost every presidential race for the past four decades. (LBJ won it in 1964; but Bill Clinton took it in 1992 only because Ross Perot chomped into what would have been the Republican vote for George H. W. Bush.) In 2008, however, the Obama campaign organized early for the Democratic primary there and has maintained its presence. Indeed, it has been running local TV spots continuously since June. While Barack Obama and his wife Michelle made several trips...
...McCain, who is counting on holding besieged Red states and taking one or two Blues to win, every electoral vote counts. Perhaps Montana's may prove decisive. As in many other places, the state is seeing a record number of early voters and absentee ballots. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has recruited 300 volunteer lawyers in the state to be ready at polling places in case voters are challenged Election Day. The campaign has also set up a central call-in center in case someone needs to make a complaint or seek guidance. Polls open 8 a.m. Mountain Standard Time...
...pictures of John McCain's final push on the campaign trail...