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Early voting forces presidential
campaigns to alter tactics

Los Angeles Times, by Paul West Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:41:35 AM Post Reply

Des Moines - A decade ago, strategist Karl Rove launched the Republican Party's 72-hour plan: a massive door-knocking and phone effort in the final three days before the election that helped generate victories in 2002 and 2004. Early voting this year has rendered Rove's idea obsolete. Ballots have landed on kitchen tables in North Carolina, where two-thirds or more of the vote will probably be cast early. In-person voting starts Thursday in Iowa, a swing state where election season has assumed biblical proportions: 40 days and nights leading up to Nov. 6. Before this month is out, 30 states will

Afghan-NATO forces
foil insider attack

Washington Times, by Kristina Wong Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:37:24 AM Post Reply

Afghan and NATO forces on Friday thwarted an insider attack for the first time since the start of the war, coalition officials said Monday. Officials said that a joint Afghan-NATO special operations team arrested two men who were in the “advanced stages” of preparing for a strike against a coalition base in Logar province, just south of Kabul. The planned strike, by two “known insider attack facilitators,” was to include homemade bombs, the recruitment of insurgent fighters and the attempted infiltration of Afghan security forces, the officials said. (Snip) It is too early to tell whether the men belong to

Flurry of Romney ad
buys targets D.C.

Washington Times, by Luke Rosiak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:35:00 AM Post Reply

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has made a slew of major ad purchases in the Washington market — a spurt of activity for a campaign that trails badly in the advertising wars, and one that will reach not only voters in the swing state of Virginia but also potentially help shape the national political and media impressions of the race. The Romney campaign made 42 buys totaling about $2.4 million Thursday, the second-most of any day since the beginning of August. It purchased 20 additional ads Friday, and eight more on Sunday, according to The Washington Times’ exclusive broadcast advertising

Cash-rich GOP super PACs
flood blue states with ads

Washington Times, by Luke Rosiak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:33:32 AM Post Reply

More than 8 in 10 Philadelphians voted for President Obama in 2008, and he bested Republican Sen. John McCain by comfortable margins in every county surrounding it. But to watch local television now, one would think the fifth-largest city in the nation was a Republican stronghold. Nearly every political ad on broadcast television is for a Republican here, the peculiar result of its status as one of the lowest priorities among of the swing states and an illustration of what can happen when, thanks to new rules that led to super PACs, one side has far more money to spend

Leaders gather for Congressional
Black Caucus prayer breakfast

Washington Post, by Hamil R. Harris & Jeannine Hunter Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:25:47 AM Post Reply

From Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) to Martin Luther King III, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center was filled Saturday morning with many African American lawmakers and icons, who were challenged to transform petitions to God into action. “it’s not what we take, but what we give that enables us to grow,” said Bishop Noel Jones, who preached at the Congressional Black Caucus annual prayer breakfast. (Snip) From Congressional Black Caucus members and White House appointees to pastors from a cross-section of the faith community, the prayer breakfast was an opportunity for people to reflect on the spiritual aspect of what

Amtrak to test trains at 165 mph
along Northeast routes

USA Today, by Michael Winter Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:22:31 AM Post Reply

Starting tonight and ending next week, Amtrak plans to set speed records in tests along the Northeast Corridor -- 165 mph. Tests of the Acela Express trains will cover four stretches between Maryland and Massachusetts and "will measure the interaction between the train and the track, rider quality and other safety factors," the national passenger rail service announced today. The Associated Press says the first test will start around 10:30 tonight along a 22.9-mile stretch between Trenton and New Brunswick, N.J., where the current maximum speed is 135 mph.

Seahawks stun Packers
on final play 14-12

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:11:16 AM Post Reply

Seattle - Russell Wilson threw a disputed 24-yard touchdown to Golden Tate on the final play of the game, and the Seattle Seahawks rallied to beat the Green Bay Packers 14-12 on Monday night in a controversial ending. Wilson scrambled from the pocket and threw to the corner of the end zone as the clock expired. Tate shoved Green Bay's Sam Shields out of the way, then wrestled with M.D. Jennings for possession. It was ruled on the field as a touchdown and after a lengthy review, referee Wayne Elliott came out from under the hood and announced "the ruling

Veterans retreating
from Barack Obama

Politico, by Darren Samuelsohn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 12:03:53 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is trying hard to win veterans, but it looks like they’d prefer a new commander in chief. The Obama campaign had been hoping that veterans and their families — especially among the post-Sept. 11 generation that served in Iraq and Afghanistan — would be part of their path to victory: They’re a high turn-out demographic and concentrated in battleground states, with nearly 1 million each in North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, and 1.6 million in Florida. But recent polls make clear that the president’s campaign is losing the battle. Even as Obama leads in Colorado, Florida, Ohio

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