If there’s a list of people that John McCain doesn’t want to publicly endorse him in the closing days before the election, Vice President Dick Cheney probably rates pretty high. Cheney, stumping for GOP candidates in his home state of Wyoming, earlier today said:  And in three days we’ll choose a new steward for the [...]

The McCain campaign has declined to make an election issue of reports that Zeituni Onyango, Barack Obama’s aunt, has been living in Boston illegally. “It’s a family matter,” says Mark Salter, one of McCain’s closest advisers, before declining further comment.

Election Protection has the nation’s largest voter assistance hotline (866-OUR-VOTE). As of today, they have received 80,000 calls seeking assistance. Here are the trends: –Broward County leads Florida in voter requests for assistance. –Registration-related problems rank #1 in nearly every battleground state – hundreds of calls focus on that problem, most often in Texas, New [...]

This morning the top question journalists are asking the campaign is how did Obama not know that his aunt — his father’s half-sister from Kenya — was living illegally in Boston in public housing, and had giving illegally to his campaign ($260 in donations that the campaign says they have now returned).   Obama’s Kenyan family [...]

This from the AP: State declares Obama birth certificate genuine 17 hours ago HONOLULU (AP) — State officials say there’s no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original [...]