Yahoo! News: ElectionsElectionsToday on the presidential campaign trail (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Opposed to taxpayer bailouts, McCain says govt 'forced' to propose $85 billion plan for AIG ... Obama pitches voters on economy in national ad ... Biden says it took a crisis in financial sector to convince McCain that economy is in trouble ... Clinton avoids Palin, focuses on McCain ... Wall Street gives generously to Obama, McCain ... Michelle Obama says husband's policies will focus on familieshttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_... White House rivals war over 'worst crisis in generations' (AFP)- September 17, 2008 AFP - Democrat Barack Obama scornfully portrayed his White House rival John McCain Wednesday as a lifelong member of the very "old boy network" that the Republican said had driven the US economy into crisis.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080917/ts_al... Limbaugh, hitting back over usage in ad, says Obama "stoking racism" (Politico)- September 17, 2008 Politico - Rush Limbaugh, featured in a new, Spanish-language Barack Obama ad, says the commercial distorts his past statements and amounts to "race-baiting" by the Democratic nominee.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080917/... McCain says government 'forced' to bail out AIG (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a day after flatly rejecting the idea of a taxpayer bailout for American International Group Inc., said Wednesday that the government had been "forced" into proposing an $85 billion loan to the nation's largest insurer.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_... Alaska counts final ballots in US House primary (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Elections officials in Alaska said Wednesday that they soon would have the final results for a close Republican primary battle over the state's only seat in the House of Representatives.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_... North Carolina a new battleground (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - All of a sudden, North Carolina matters.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_... Obama savages McCain over 'worst crisis in generations' (AFP)- September 17, 2008 AFP - Democrat Barack Obama launched a scathing attack on his White House rival John McCain Wednesday for being part of the very "old boy network" that the Republican said had driven the US economy into crisis.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080917/pl_af... Biden says Wall Street woes awoke McCain to crisis (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday it took a financial crisis on Wall Street for Republican candidate John McCain to realize the U.S. economy is in trouble. "Where was he a week ago, a month ago" Biden asked as he campaigned in suburban Toledo at the beginning of a two-day bus tour.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_... Battered Wall Street gives to Obama, McCain (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Some of John McCain's and Barack Obama's biggest fundraisers are executives from the stricken financial services industry, which will need all the help it can get from whoever wins the White House.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_... White House foes to speak at famed NYC dinner (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama have agreed to participate in what historian and author Theodore H. White once called "a ritual of American politics" the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_... |