Candidate Clips for 10-13-08

Written by: Dave on Oct 13, 2008 10:23 AM EDT

Hi everyone!  Here are today's candidate clips from the worldwide web:

You couldn’t find even 1 talkative lawmaker
10-12-08    Las Vegas Sun     Lisa Mascaro
Few lawmakers will talk about the do-over bailout plan, and how they plan to vote.

Rural Nevada comes into play
10-11-08   Lahontan Valley News    Steve Ranson  
Douglas county rancher Jill Derby, a Democrat running for the US House of Representative’s seat held by incumbent Dean Heller, visits Fallon Monday morning. ...

Polls show Nov. 4 election races will be tight
10-12-08Farmington Daily Times   Steve Lynn
Forty-one percent of voters back Luján, while 18 percent favor East and 14 percent likely will vote for Miller, according to another recent Research and Polling poll for the Albuquerque Journal. More than 27 percent of voters were undecided or wouldn't give their choice. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 8.4 percentage points.

Titus shows she’s learned from mistakes of run in ’06
10-12-08   Las Vegas Sun    J. Patrick Coolican
He was accused of assaulting a cocktail waitress in a parking garage after a night of drinking at a Las Vegas seafood joint.  And a woman said Gibbons had hired her to be a nanny for the family even though she was in the country illegally.  Gibbons denied the allegations, but any of the three would have buried most candidates.

Porter's lead slim against Titus
10-12-08    Las Vegas Review    Paul Harasim
The nation's economic collapse, Titus' own ballyhooed polls and Porter's long-standing support for President Bush, now one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history, would point to a solid Titus lead in the poll, the analysts had thought.

FL-18: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thinks people don’t like Social Security
10-10-08    Daily Kos    Annette Taddeo Online Team
On Wednesday, O2B Better Democrat Annette Taddeo and Bush Rubberstamp Ileana Ros-Lehtinen met in a forum at Miami’s Chamber of Commerce. Ros-Lehtinen refuses to debate Annette head to head, and insisted on getting the questions in ...

Police officer to run for Anchorage mayor
10-12-08    Juneau Empire
Mark Begich, the current mayor, is competing for US Sen. Ted Stevens' seat in the November election. Whatever the result, Begich can't run for mayor again ...

City reopens wood lots to handle storm debris
10-11-08   KTUU   Channel 2 News Staff
To help clear fallen trees and branches, Mayor Mark Begich reopened wood lots in Anchorage and Eagle River Saturday. The wood lots had closed on Sept. ...

Congressional Debate
10-12-08   WETM-TV      Zack Wheeler
Rochester - Sparks flew at the congressional debate between Randy Kuhl and Eric Massa in Rochester Friday. The two congressional candidates have very ...

Better Democrats Perriello, Massa Pick Up Steam
10-11-08    Open Left   Matt Stoller  
Virgil Goode is now under 50 percent as Perriello picks up another 17 points, and Eric Massa now has three polls in which he's in the lead. In a wave year, it's nice that progressives are going to be sitting in Congress next year.

Smith drops Wyden's signature in ad
10-12-08  The Oregonian
Smith, who is running in a close race against Democrat Jeff Merkley, has used images of numerous Democrats in his ads, including Sen. ...

Web site offers resource for election news
10-12-08   Statesman Journal  Bill Church
The Statesman Journal Editorial Board met Friday with Jeff Merkley and Gordon Smith, and I've got good news to report. Not once during the meeting did ...

We can't afford to lose Gordon Smith
Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
But look past those ads and you'll find two good candidates: the Republican incumbent, Gordon Smith, and a credible challenger, Jeff Merkley, the Democratic ...

"A debate among voters"
10-12-08   Bend Bulletin  
And most don’t know much about Democrat Jeff Merkley, the speaker of the Oregon House, who lives in Portland. Tuesday is the deadline to register for the ...

Smith-Merkley: Give viewers economic specifics, not insults
10-12-08   The Oregonian   The Editorial Board
by The Editorial Board Maybe in good times, the ugly little performance that Gordon Smith and Jeff Merkley put on at their first debate the other night ...

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