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• Todd Palin to visit Fremont snowmobile event today - 10/11/2008

  FREMONT — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's husband, Todd — a world-champion snowmobiler — is set to appear at an annual competitive snowmobiling event today.

• McCain losing ground with working-class whites - 10/10/2008

  KITTANNING, Pa. — The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation’s economic engine. Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times.

  
• Todd Palin to visit Fremont snowmobile event Saturday - 10/10/2008

  FREMONT — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd — a world-champion snowmobiler — is set to appear at an annual competitive snowmobiling event Saturday.

• ME: Veterans coalition endorses Summers for Congress - 10/10/2008

  PORTLAND, Maine -- The Summers for Congress campaign announced today yet another endorsement of Charlie Summers' candidacy in the race to represent Maine's First District in the U.S. House: the National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition.

• Palin, Biden coming to N.H. next week - 10/10/2008

  New Hampshire's status as a battleground election state will be confirmed again next week when vice presidential candidates Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Gov. Sarah Palin make campaign appearances.

• Obama calls McCain mortgage plan ill-advised - 10/9/2008

  DAYTON, Ohio — Democrat Barack Obama told a campaign audience Thursday that Republican John McCain’s mortgage buyout plan would cost taxpayers billions of dollars and reward bad behavior by lenders.

  
• Biden coming to N.H. on Monday - 10/9/2008

  ROCHESTER — Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden is coming to New Hampshire Monday.

• Todd Palin to campaign in Maine - 10/9/2008

  PORTLAND, Maine — Todd Palin, husband of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is coming to Maine to campaign for John McCain.

• Mass. Gov. Patrick heading to Portsmouth to campaign for Obama - 10/9/2008

  BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick is leading a busload of Barack Obama supporters to New Hampshire.

• Collins, Allen debate economic issues - 10/9/2008

  PORTLAND, Maine — Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Tom Allen agree that the $700 billion economic rescue package passed by Congress last week was necessary, but they disagreed Thursday on the primary causes for the meltdown on Wall Street.

• Senate candidates address economy - 10/9/2008

  NEW CASTLE — Taking a cue from the previous night's presidential debate, U.S. Senate candidates former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Sen. John Sununu presented their distinctive policy platforms at a breakfast forum Wednesday hosted by...

• McCain campaign considering a Palin stop in N.H. - 10/8/2008

  Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin may be making a campaign stop in the Granite State next week. According to sources inside the New Hampshire campaign of Sen. John McCain, planning is underway for a potential day and location...

• Shaheen, Sununu clash on rescue plan - 10/8/2008

  NEW CASTLE — Taking a cue from the previous night’s presidential debate, U.S. Senate candidates former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Sen. John Sununu presented their distinctive policy platforms at a breakfast forum Wednesday hosted by the...

  
• Analysis: Veteran pollster pokes holes in practice - 10/8/2008

  For the past month, political polling has been relentless, and it will continue with the same intensity until Election Day Nov. 4.

• McCain, Obama play blame game - 10/7/2008

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night in a debate in which Republican McCain called for a sweeping $300 billion program to shield...

  
• Trailing Obama, McCain hopes to gain in debate - 10/7/2008

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Leading in the polls, Barack Obama hopes to cement his standing while John McCain is trying to turn his fortunes around in their second presidential debate — with economic turmoil bordering on chaos suddenly serving as the...

  
• NH: Veterans support Shea-Porter - 10/7/2008

  MANCHESTER — Just days after the Veterans of Foreign Wars Political Action Committee endorsed Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter for re-election, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America awarded Shea-Porter with an "A+" rating. For more...

• ME: Chellie Pingree releases TV commercial - 10/7/2008

  Chellie Pingree released a new TV ad today. In "Squeeze," Pingree sounds a familiar theme for her: the growing pressure that working Maine families are feeling due to rising prices and decreased job security, while Wall Street and special interests...

• NH: Sununu announces veterans coalition - 10/7/2008

  CONCORD — Senator John Sununu announced today that well over 400 Granite State veterans have signed up as Veterans For Sununu. This coalition, which is chaired by Paul Chevalier of Hudson, Griffin T. Dalianis of Nashua, and William R. Grimm of...