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Associated Press:
AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally — WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama says he didn't know aunt's illegal status — Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama — CHICAGO - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know that one of his relatives was living in the United States illegally and believes the appropriate laws should be followed.
Frank James / The Swamp:
Obama's illegal immigrant aunt problem — A police officer on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 outside the public housing building in South Boston where Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango reportedly lives. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) — by Frank James
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Michelle Malkin:
Obama's illegal alien aunt (and campaign donor!) is a deportation fugitive; Bush administration moves to protect her — Well now. — Turns out Aunti Zeituni Onyango, one of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's many relatives made famous in his memoir, is an illegal alien.
Randy Ludlow / The Columbus Dispatch:
State employee says she was ordered to check out Joe the Plumber — Vanessa Niekamp said that when she was asked to run a child-support check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16, she thought it routine. A supervisor told her the man had contacted the state agency about his case.
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Marc Ambinder:
A McCain Campaign Memo — The last thing the McCain campaign needs on election day is demoralized Republicans. Hence this memo, which recapitulates what Davis and co. said on a conference call with reporters this morning.
Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
Ensign: Palin not ready for presidency — LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican Sen. John Ensign says Sarah Palin is not experienced enough to be president and John McCain's presidential campaign “completely mishandled” her early days on the ticket. — The Nevada senator made the comments …
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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Does Palin's maverick label still stick? — Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A loyal Democrat, Kenny Powers never shared Sarah Palin's conservative politics. But the United Way organizer confesses a fondness for the governor who paired a folksy charm with scorn for Alaska's Republican old guard.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Presidential Vanishing Act, by Design — WASHINGTON — It's the week before Election Day. Do you know where your president is? — Probably not, and that is by design. With Senator John McCain lagging behind in the polls and many other Republicans fighting for their political lives …
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Olbermann crashes SNL set — Ben Affleck, who's hosting “Saturday Night Live” this week, was rehearsing a skit this afternoon mocking Keith Olbermann when Olbermann himself got past security to watch, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. — A source described the skit as …
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Obama Is Up, and Fans Fear That Jinxes It — In the den of his home in New Hope, Pa., a liberal Democrat sits tap-tapping at his computer. — Jon Downs works the electoral vote maps on Yahoo like a spiritualist shaking his Ouija board. He calibrates and recalibrates: Give Senator John McCain Ohio, Missouri, even Florida.
Josh Drobnyk / Morning Call:
NRA hoping ads bag win for McCain — Group pays to have message wrapped around newspapers. — WASHINGTON | The National Rifle Association is planning an Election Day ad blitz in Pennsylvania and other battlegrounds, delivering an anti-Barack Obama message to the doorsteps of thousands …
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
True Believers In McCain Flock to Pa. — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — He hated the helplessness of watching John McCain's efforts from afar, so Joe White, 62, loaded up his trailer in South Carolina and drove here last weekend. He set up camp in a Wal-Mart parking lot, bought a map of State College …
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Associated Press:
AP poll shows Obama backers gleeful, McCain's glum — Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama — WASHINGTON - That smiling guy walking down the street? Odds are he's a Barack Obama backer. The grouchy looking one? Don't ask, and don't necessarily count on him to vote next week, either.
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RushLimbaugh.com:
El Rushbo's Gut Starts to Speak! — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: My gut is starting to talk to me, ladies and gentlemen. As you know and as I discussed over the course of the previous week, my gut was not giving me any indication whatsoever, and my gut started talking to me last night.
William Grimes / New York Times:
Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96 — Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre, and who for decades was the voluble host of a popular radio show in Chicago, died Friday at his home there.
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Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Chuck Todd's state-by-state election guide — NBC's political director tells you what to expect in each state on Tuesday — WASHINGTON - There are a number of smart election previews out there. — Ready for one more? — Here are the things I'm watching for in every state, on every level.
Eli Lehrer / CEI:
Letter to President Bush on Midnight Regulations — Dear Mr. President: — We are a diverse coalition. All of our members share a deep concern about America's regulatory state. We want to deliver a simple message: your administration should stick to its word and not issue any midnight regulations.
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