Poll: Early Voters Strongly Prefer Obama  —  CBS News Survey Shows Democratic Ticket With 19 Point Edge Among Early Voters, 13 Point Lead Among Likely Voters Overall  —  (CBS) With just three days left until Election Day, a new CBS News poll finds that the Democratic presidential ticket …

Palin talks hunting, politics in prank call with notorious Quebec comedy duo  —  MONTREAL — A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Obama aunt leak raises questions, as does timing  —  HENDERSON, Nev. — Barack Obama did not know a relative was living in the United States illegally for the past nearly four years prior to today's Associated Press report, “but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed,” the campaign said Saturday in a statement.

Obama ‘congratulates’ McCain on Cheney endorsement  —  (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama hit key swing states Saturday, taking a jab at his GOP counterpart's endorsement by the nation's vice president.  —  At an event in Laramie, Wyoming, on Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney said he will cast his ballot for the McCain-Palin ticket.

Republicans try to use Oxford don to smear Barack Obama  —  The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama's ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to “prove” that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist.

Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper  —  Zomblog has obtained an extremely rare copy of the first issue of Osawatomie, a newspaper published by the Weather Underground in 1975.  Noteworthy passages are reproduced below, along with exact transcriptions.

McCain pokes fun at his campaign on ‘SNL’  —  Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama  —  NEW YORK - Republican John McCain poked fun at his presidential campaign's financial shortcomings and his reputation as a political maverick in an appearance on NBC's “Saturday Night Live.”

McCain's name nowhere to be seen at Palin rally  —  POLK CITY, Florida (CNN) — At a boisterous Sarah Palin rally in Polk City, Florida on Saturday afternoon, one name was surprisingly absent from the campaign décor — John McCain's.  —  Looking around the Fantasy of Flight aircraft hangar …

Palin's Medical Records  —  Still AWOL.  No explanation.  Not even a gesture, which suggests to me that some in the McCain camp realize they'd rather release nothing than be implicated in anything that might hurt them after the election.  Only ABC News' Kate Snow seems to care.

Today's Polls, 11/1  —  This is beginning to look like a five-state election.  Those states are Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada.  Essentially all relevant electoral scenarios involve some combination of these five states.  —  I should caution that by far the most likely scenario …

Listen to Chris Rock at Tampa Obama rally  —  TAMPA — (Listen here ) Comedian Chris Rock took the stage this afternoon and told a crowd of more than 1,000 at a College Hill little league field to go vote for Sen. Barack Obama.  Voters should choose a candidate they can relate to, who can see they're poor and understand, he said.

Cases Against Detainees Have Thinned  —  Algerians' Habeas Corpus Hearings Will Begin With Fewer and Lesser Charges  —  The six Algerians were scooped up in Bosnia and shuttled to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in early 2002.  Days later, President Bush proclaimed in his State …

A Surge on One Channel, a Tight Race on Another  —  WASHINGTON — It was a lousy day to be Senator John McCain, Keith Olbermann informed his viewers on MSNBC on Thursday.  —  Senator Barack Obama's surge in the polls was so strong he was competitive in Mr. McCain's home state, Arizona.

LGF Exclusive: Bill Ayers' ‘Prairie Fire’ in PDF Form  —  A little green birdie dropped off a package for us; the PDF version of Barack Obama associates “Billy” Ayers' and Bernardine Dohrn's 1974 communist declaration of war against the United States.  —  Includes the dedication to Sirhan Sirhan …

An All-Out Attack on ‘Conservative Misinformation’  —  WASHINGTON — They are some of the more memorable slip-ups or slights within the news media's coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.  —  A Fox News anchor asks whether Senator Barack Obama and his wife had greeted each other with a “terrorist fist jab.”

Did Palin Suggest We're At War With Iran?  —  Uh oh.  More trouble for Sarah Palin on the foreign policy front.  In an interview with Fox's Greta Van Susteren yesterday, Palin professed confidence in victory on Tuesday as follows: … Now, it's not fully clear that Palin was saying outright …