New York Times
By Steven Greenhouse
In its final burst of campaigning, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
is pushing to get one of the hardest to persuade groups — retirees – to
support Barack Obama for president.
“We know that in this election, unlike other elections, we need to
particularly reach seniors and retirees in a way we haven’t had to
reach them before,” Karen Ackerman, the labor federation’s political
director, said in a telephone interview. “Many are uncertain about
whether Senator Obama represents their interests. Some are
uncomfortable with him.”
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TPM
The
Obama-backing labor federation Change to Win is about to drop some
750,000 mailers in the battlegrounds slamming John McCain and George W.
Bush for having "wrecked our economy," with a fun play on the question,
"how do they look themselves in the mirror?"
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Washington Post
By Alec MacGillis
For all the emphasis on Sen. Barack Obama's
chances with working-class voters in declining Rust Belt cities, the
biggest swing vote in the presidential election is likely to be in
outer suburban communities, where Democrats hope to capitalize on
economic unease and demographic shifts to overturn traditional
Republican strengths.
Republicans have long dominated in the fast-growing exurbs, which President Bush
won by an even larger margin in 2004 than in 2000. But Democrats made
inroads in these areas in the 2006 congressional elections, part of a
broader trend that has seen the party gain among college-educated
suburban professionals. And this year, many exurbs that grew rapidly in
the past decade are being hit particularly hard by the economic
downturn.
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AP
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two weeks before Election
Day, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is busily banking
every early vote he can get in key states. Republican nominee John
McCain is more selectively working to lock in the early votes of his
most iffy supporters, figuring the rest will make it to the polls
sooner or later.
Voters in every state can
now cast ballots through early voting or absentee voting programs.
Results won't be released until Nov. 4, but a look at those who have
voted shows the Democrats have been aggressive.
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AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio's top
elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over
voter registrations.
The justices on Friday overruled a federal
appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more
to help counties verify voter eligibility.
Secretary of State
Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a
system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters
whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter
registration forms don't match records in other government databases.
Ohio
Republicans contended the information for counties would help prevent
fraud. Brunner said the GOP is trying to disenfranchise voters.
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Talking Points Memo
By Greg Sargent
A
scorching new mailer from AFSCME keeps up labor's economic assault on
John McCain, directly blaming McCain and Bush for presiding over "the
greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression."...
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MSNBC
From NBC’s Doug Adams
Virginia
now has more than five million registered voters, a new record, as the
deadline for registration for the fall election closed on Oct. 6th,
according to the Virginia State Board of Elections.
The total number of registered voters in Virginia is now 5,021,933.
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Washington Post
By Juliet Eilperin
DOVER, N.H. -- GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin launched an
all-out push today in New Hampshire, a state that helped resuscitate
John McCain's presidential campaign this year and could prove critical
in next month's election. But even as Palin holds rallies in Dover,
Laconia and Salem today, a new analysis by the University of New
Hampshire's Carsey Institute suggests the state has become increasingly
Democratic over the past decade.
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Huffington Post
By Sam Stein
The
AFL-CIO is blasting out a new mailer to its members, trumpeting Barack
Obama's credentials on a key issue of the day -- job creation -- and a
potential perceived weakness, gun control.
The mailer quotes Mike Day, a union member, declaring: "I want to
protect two things: my job and my gun. That's why I'm supporting Barack
Obama." It also touts Obama's tax cuts for the middle class and his
support for the Employee Free Choice Act, a top legislative priority
for the labor movement. John McCain isn't mentioned.
The new communications blitz is aimed at a "microtargeted group of
the hardest to reach union household voters -- gun owners, veterans and
retirees," AFL-CIO spokesman Steve Smith said.
The mailer will begin arriving on Tuesday at the homes of 80,000
swing voters and gun owners in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It
follows an eight-state mailing last week to veterans hammering McCain's
record on veterans' health care.
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In
an unusual move, one of the largest unions supporting Barack Obama is
blitzing some 250,000 senior households in the battleground states with
a 13-minute DVD that's solely devoted to attacking John McCain's health
care plan in a level of detail that far outdoes your typical direct
mail piece.
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