The Changing Election

- The big news story that’s begun to circulate rather heavily is that Sarah Palin is going rogue, according to a few McCain aides: “Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue” recently, while a Palin associate says she is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a mishandled roll-out that damaged her.” We’ll be looking into this issue pretty soon.

- Bill Clinton and Barack Obama seem to have put their differences aside and have agreed to campaign together on Wednesday in Orlando: “The event is expected to give Obama a boost in media attention during the last days of the campaign and offer another symbolic sign of the Democratic torch being passed to the next generation.” There’s a good chance that I might be able to report live from the venue, and I’ll leave more details if so as we get closer to Wednesday.

- Senator Obama feels like McCain’s recent criticism of President Bush is too little, too late: “”Senator McCain has been throwing everything he’s got at us, hoping something will stick,” Mr. Obama said, adding that Mr. McCain in an interview with The Washington Times went so far to distance himself with Mr. Bush that he complained the administration let the economy “get completely out of hand.”" 

- Economic issues are starting to push Latinos towards Senator Obama: “In the last days of the campaign, Republicans and Democrats are walking the precincts here with lists of registered Latino voters who may be the key to victory in the Western battleground states, and this is what they are finding: padlocks on front doors, “bank owned” placards in the yards and, among those still in their homes, growing support for Barack Obama’s promise of change.”

- McCain and Obama focus on the west as the days till November 4th begin to grow thin: “Republican John McCain Saturday said, “that’s not America” to describe Democrat Barack Obama’s tax proposals, and Obama said that McCain was calling him “a socialist for suggesting that we focus on tax cuts for the middle class instead of for the wealthy, for corporations.”"

- The GOP’s Challenge of new voters is set back by the courts: “A Republican legal campaign questioning the legitimacy of many newly registered voters hit a wall this week when courts rejected several cases filed by GOP state parties and officials. As Democrats registered record numbers of new voters over the recent months, Republicans asked courts to enforce a law intended to prevent fraud, but that voting rights advocates feared could erroneously purge thousands of legitimate voters from the rolls.”