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...advisers argue that the approach not only expands the playing field and aids down-ballot candidates, but that it also helps with fund-raising and adds to volunteer efforts in neighboring states that are more in play - such as, in the case of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada...
...service soon will "develop an unmanned aircraft systems operator career field with specialized training potentially distinct from current manned pilot training," he said. That will come as a relief to many young pilots who have feared having their flying careers crimped by being ordered to fly drones from Nevada's Creech Air Force Base. Schwartz said he wanted the separate training pipeline so that drone operators are not viewed as "a leper colony" by their colleagues still flying manned aircraft...
Through his work as a pork buster, McCain has opposed flood-prevention projects in swing states like Missouri and Virginia, drought aid for Nevada and New Mexico, and economic development for Pennsylvania and West Virginia. His has been a lonely vote against funding for the Florida Everglades and Yellowstone National Park. He has opposed money for schools, bridges, military bases, disaster relief, military housing, senior housing, renewable energy programs, job training programs, health care for veterans, services for disabled kids and just about everything else his Senate colleagues have stashed into spending bills, which is to say just about everything...
Obama hasn't said much about McCain's pork-bashing; on a national level, it would just play to McCain's maverick strengths. But on a local level, when McCain has spoken at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Lehigh Valley Hospital and the city of Youngstown, Ohio, the Obama campaign has released lists of earmarks those places have benefited from. And in a speech to aerospace workers, Obama himself recently accused McCain of hurting the American economy by battling Boeing, even though McCain's investigations into a sweetheart deal for Boeing helped expose a Pentagon scandal...
...Virginia is one of 10 states, including Ohio, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Missouri, Florida, Colorado, Montana and North Dakota, that went for President George W. Bush in 2004 but which the Obama campaign believes will be among the most closely contested in November. "Those, plus New Hampshire and Wisconsin, are going to be the toughest till the end," predicts Steve Hildebrand, the man in charge of Obama's ground game...