My friends, it’s John McCain, live from New York, just three days before the election.
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If her bid for vice president fails, Gov. Sarah Palin could almost surely use her sudden fame to obtain a lucrative book deal or high fees on the lecture circuit, or even get her own TV talk show. But Alaska law might not allow it.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey has taken personal trips on government jets almost every weekend since he took office less than a year ago at a cost to taxpayers of more than $155,800, Justice Department and Federal Aviation Administration records show.
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One of the more tantalizing possibilities in Tuesday’s elections is the prospect of Texas voters electing 75 Republicans and 75 Democrats to the House of Representatives.
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John McCain ended a two-day bus tour through Ohio with the blessing of one of the nation’s most prominent Republicans, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who offered expert testimony about Barack Obama’s “skinny legs” and tax policies that he called redistributive.
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The monthly poker night held by members of the Latin-Anglo Alliance here is strictly social. No work. No politics.
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Donnell Stewart dragged her 19-year-old son out of the house, again, on a bright Saturday morning for the same reason she had all those other weekend mornings. “We’re going Obama-eering,” she sang out.
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Along with leadership positions to be decided on the ballot Tuesday, voters in the Houston region will make decisions on a variety of issues. The following is a listing of county-by-county highlights.
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Several gay friends and wealthy gay donors to Sen. Barack Obama have asked him over the years why, as a matter of logic and fairness, he opposes same-sex marriage even though he has condemned old miscegenation laws that would have barred his black father from marrying his white mother. The difference, Obama has told them, is religion.
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More than 730,000 people voted early in Harris County, officials said, in a gusher of participation that rewrote the book for Tuesday’s election and Texas politics beyond.
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