Here’s a look at whether or not Arizona, McCain’s home state, is really in play. My own guess: it’ll be a squeaker. A lot of folks on both sides worry about how news agencies calling the early states might affect Arizona’s voting. 

Word comes that Barack Obama’s grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, or having lunch in a coffee shop, with her grandson–way back at the turn of the 1970s, when such sights were [...]

So I’ve been toting a little video camera around this week and our video guru Craig Duff assembled the footage along with some of Callie Shell’s amazing photographs.

Did not live to see the election: Statement from Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng on the Death of Their Grandmother It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer.  She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, [...]

By all reports from the front of the plane, John McCain is having a good time today, hanging out with his friend Joe Lieberman, and various other notables, like former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge and Florida Sen. Mel Martinez. They have been eating fried chicken, picked up in Tennessee with some peach cobbler. If there [...]

Told that the McCain people deny any changes to Palin’s script, Olbermann took some relish with his response: From:     Keith Olbermann Subject:     Re: On the old record Date:     November 3, 2008 11:26:38 AM EST Your first commenter has it right on about Palin changing lines. I have (drum roll please) evidence of [...]

I caught up with Florida Senator Bill Nelson at Obama’s Jacksonville rally. He told me he believes Obama will carry the state by 4 percentage points. “Florida has never seen a presidential organizational effort like this,” he said. “This overwhelms George Bush’s 2004 effort.” As election returns start coming in tomorrow night, Nelson will be [...]

Roll Call reports: The juror who was dismissed from the criminal trial of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to attend the funeral of her father in California admitted Monday that her father had not died, and that she went to California to attend a horse race. UPDATE: Roll Call now has additional info, and it gets [...]

My story on McCain’s final town hall in New Hampshire last night.