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With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Barack Obama has held or increased his lead in four key states won by President Bush in 2004 - Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia - while he has lost ground in West Virginia, according to the latest series of TIME/CNN battleground-state polls conducted by Opinion Research Corp. The polls suggest that the McCain campaign's recent attempts to link the Democratic nominee to former domestic terrorist William Ayers and the liberal organizing group ACORN (which the GOP accuses of perpetrating voter fraud) are not resonating with most voters...
...harsh reality: plenty of homeowners are never going to be able to pay for their houses, no matter how generous the terms, because someone - the homeowner, the mortgage broker - lied about or simply ignored income and assets. Cena Valladolid, chief operating officer for Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Southern Nevada, says more than half of the homeowners who seek help from her nonprofit are living in houses they never had a realistic shot of affording. The best advice she can offer in the depressed Las Vegas real estate market is to ask the lender to allow a short sale...
...this summer, Republicans hit on the suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times. "We're not catching a break," laments Nevada Senator John Ensign, Schumer's GOP counterpart who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
...landscapers and nurseries. The microchips, which are inserted with a syringe, will help authorities identify stolen plants. Seventeen Carnegiea gigantea were stolen from Arizona's Saguaro National Park last year; they sell for about $1,000 each. The saguaro isn't the only cactus to be microchipped; Arizona and Nevada put chips in barrel cacti...
...addition to the Nevada raid, voter registration drives in several other states have been scrutinized, while the group's campaigns to demand fair housing loan practices has opened it up to charges that it advocated risky subprime mortgages. On its website, ACORN has called the allegations of voter fraud "bogus" and "unfounded." The organization says it works with authorities and identifies all the fraudulent forms that it can, and that the campaign against its registration drives is a ploy to "disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate...