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In the Headlines

"A Positively Negative Home Stretch" (Shailagh Murray, Juliet Eilperin and Robert Barnes, Washington Post) - The waning hours of the longest presidential campaign in history elicited a fresh round of stinging attacks from Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain and their supporters on Sunday, a departure from the positive messages that candidates normally revert to before an election.

"In Ohio, Obama's ground game outguns McCain's" (Bob Drogin and Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times) - Ohio is a battleground in the presidential race, and here's the view on the front line: McCain's get-out-the-vote operation has struggled to build momentum, and it appears outgunned by Obama's.

"In States Once Reliably Red, Palin and Biden Tighten Their Stump Speeches" (John Broder and Julie Bosman, New York Times) - The vice-presidential candidates spent the final, frenetic hours of the 2008 campaign on traditionally Republican turf, with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. urging Democrats to get to the polls and Gov. Sarah Palin warning that “the far-left wing of the Democrat” Party is poised to take over Washington.

"Poll: Voters worried but engaged" (Susan Page, USA Today) - Americans are going to the polls more deeply pessimistic than they have been in decades about the country's direction, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and they are divided over whether a new president will be able to turn things around in the next four years.

On the Morning Shows

Morning Joe - Obama senior strategist Robert Gibbs: "We feel pretty good going into Election Day tomorrow ... We are not showing a lot of tightening.  We're showing a little tightening, but that's natural at this juncture in any political race. You have undecided who are making up their minds. Look at our schedule ... we have spent time in the last five days in states exclusively that George Bush won."



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