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...Veterans Day in order to both promote voting and remind citizens that voting is a form of national service. Making Election Day a federal holiday—whether in addition to or in conjunction with Veterans Day—would instantaneously turn every workplace into a potential polling place and would result in a drastic increase in the number of possible poll workers, who currently run in short supply...
...penultimate presidential debate, a new TIME/CNN poll shows John McCain still struggling in states won by George W. Bush in 2004, a sign that last week's vice-presidential debate had little effect on voter opinion...
John McCain's top field general, Mike DuHaime, has been here before. Just 10 months ago, he was managing the ill-fated Rudy Giuliani campaign for President, fending off daily questions about declining poll numbers and dimming prospects. As the data went south, DuHaime never soured in his public predictions...
...this posturing comes as the candidates face only two remaining major events before Election Day: a presidential debate Tuesday in Tennessee and a joint forum on Oct. 15 in New York. In the meantime, no matter what the poll numbers show, campaign aides like DuHaime will be forced to talk up their optimism going into the final days. Last Thursday, McCain senior adviser Greg Strimple tried to highlight the fact that Obama too has had to pare down his initial goals for the election. "Obama started off with a 50-state strategy," Strimple said. "We've seen him pull...
...More recently, though, Obama's big bet on Missouri doesn't seem like such a joke. The latest St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll has Obama pulling within 1 point of McCain, and a new TIME/CNN poll has the Democratic nominee actually leading his Republican rival by 1 point among likely voters. The increasing tightness of the race - even if it's part of a national wave spurred by a focus on the faltering economy - shows why every doorbell, and every person ringing them, can make a world of difference in an election...