Exclusive: Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch  —  BY JAMES V. GRIMALDI  —  Early in 2007, just as her husband launched his presidential bid, Cindy McCain decided to resolve an old problem — the lack of cellular telephone coverage on her remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona …

Bill Ayers: ‘What could I possibly add?’  —  Decades removed from his radical opposition to the Vietnam War, UIC professor William Ayers lies low amid the political furor  —  As his name was tossed back and forth Tuesday in the fury of the presidential campaign, 1960s radical William Ayers spent …

Voting for Obama anyway  —  I just got an astounding e-mail from a Republican consultant I know well.  He's a guy who's always thought Obama had a “glass jaw,” and was always among those agitating for hitting Obama harder.  —  Recently, he conducted a focus group in an upper-Midwestern state …

Hip-Hop-Dancing Colin Powell Fuels Speculation He'll Endorse Obama  —  Colin Powell showed off his hip-hop moves at an ‘Africa Rising’ celebration in London Tuesday, fueling speculation that the former secretary of state is about to endorse Barack Obama for president.  —  FOXNews.com

Shocking development: Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic; she asks”, on a direct telephone to API.  —  Accusing API of colluding with American internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband …

BRUNNER COMPELLED BY COURT TO ADMIT SHE'S BEEN CONCEALING TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNMATCHED REGISTRATIONS FROM LOCAL BOARDS OF ELECTIONS UPDATE: NON-RESIDENT OBOTS FRAUDULENTLY VOTING IN OHIO  —  Updated: The tip was accurate, but the Cleveland Plain Dealer got the story out first.  See update after background.

Obama Flack Accidentally Sends Out Pre-Debate Talking Points  —  “Reminder: These are for staff only and not for distribution,” warns the e-mail.  —  And then, the spin, accidentally sent to reporters this morning.  —  “* This is John McCain's last chance to turn this race around …

Murtha: Western Pa. ‘racist’ but Obama should win … PITTSBURGH (AP) - U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama's victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.  —  The 17-term Democratic congressman tells …

Working for the Working- Class Vote  —  For a guy who just four years ago was running his first statewide campaign, Barack Obama has made startlingly few missteps as a presidential candidate.  But the moment Obama would most like to take back now, if he could, was the one last April when …

Breaking news: Secret Service investigating threat from Scranton Palin rally  —  The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a threatening remark directed at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during a political event in Scranton.  —  The agency followed up on a report in The Times-Tribune …

PALIN'S DELUSIONS WORSEN.... I can understand Sarah Palin feeling humiliated by her Troopergate scandal.  An independent investigation concluded that she violated state ethics, abused the powers of her office, and lied about it.  This isn't exactly easy to spin away this kind of violation of the public trust.

National Republicans Pull Ads in Louisiana  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee has decided to pull its television advertising out of Louisiana, a decision that drastically reduces the party's chances at its lone takeover opportunity in this election cycle.

Material linking Obama to Bin Laden removed from Sacramento GOP Web site  —  Sacramento County Republican leaders Tuesday took down offensive material on their official party Web site that sought to link Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and encouraged people to “Waterboard Barack Obama” …

WisPolitics: No RNC ads for the next week, TV stations report  —  The Republican National Committee hasn't booked ads for the next week in Wisconsin TV markets after running a series of spots attacking Barack Obama and congressional Dems, according to TV sources.

Meghan McCain 'Can't Get Over' Smears Of Her Sister, Forgets Same Operatives Now Run Her Dad's Campaign  —  Last night on Fox's Hannity and Colmes, Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) daughter Meghan explained that she could never bring herself to “get behind Pesident Bush” because of “what happened in 2000.”

Palin unaware of Russian energy meeting in Alaska  —  DOVER, New Hampshire (CNN) - The campaign of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said the Alaska governor was unaware of a visit by Russian energy officials to Anchorage on Monday.  —  Eight high-level officials from Gazprom …

Exclusive: Obama - ‘Spread the Wealth Around’ Reveals Socialist Plan for America  —  Interview with Joe Wurzelbacher … PAM MEISTER: You recently met Sen. Obama on the campaign trail in Ohio, and you asked him a question about his tax policies.  What exactly was your question for him?

GOP deploys squirrels  —  Meet Tony Romo and Mickey Mouse.  —  They are this year's version of those dolphins that stalked John Kerry in 2004, swapping out “flip-flopping” for ACORN.  —  The nut-hunters swooped into Harry Smith's Manhattan nest this morning, surprising the CBS “Early Show” anchor.

McCain to YouTube: Don't Tread On Me  —  Andrea Chalupa writes: From CNN's YouTube debates to the insta-fame of Obama Girl, YouTube has played a major role in this election.  In fact the video hub is so critical that the McCain campaign took the time to send a letter of complaint to top YouTube execs …

The GOP's Bill Ayers?  —  THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN HAS ITS OWN QUESTIONABLE CONNECTIONS TO BOMBERS AND ASSASSINS.  —  The campaign of John McCain has made much of Barack Obama's relationship with Weather Underground bomber-turned-university professor Bill Ayers, whom Republicans call an “unrepentant terrorist.”

OTD,  —  If ACORN has done nothing wrong in Ohio, then why has a RICO suit been filed against them?  —  Aaron,  —  McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone.  His parents were both citizens of the U.S. and conferred Natural Born Citizen rights to him based on the U.S. Code in affect at the time of his birth.

Roundtable on McCain, Rep. Lewis and Race  —  HUME: The panel is going to join us in just a moment to talk about what has become a heated issue in this campaign.  —  But before we start that, let's take a look at this.  This is from John Lewis, the congressman from Georgia who was a prominent member …

Delay of Game: MLB Will Move a Game 6 for Obama  —  Would Start World Series Game 15 Minutes Later  —  WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Major League Baseball has moved back the scheduled start time of any game 6 of the World Series so Fox can also air the half hour Barack Obama spot on Oct. 29.