AFP - Republican White House hopeful John McCain and running-mate Sarah Palin will Sunday ditch their pre-convention plans and visit people in Mississippi bracing for deadly Hurricane Gustav.
AP - McCain, Palin spend first full day of campaigning in Pa.; GOP leaders keep wary eye on Gustav … As Gustav approaches Gulf Coast, Obama expresses hope that lessons leaned from Katrina … Magazine: Obama told Petraeus some US forces in Iraq should be shifted to Afghanistan fight
AFP - Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin proved she could bring in the money as John McCain’s campaign raked in seven million dollars in the first day after he announced his historic pick.
AP - John McCain voiced concern for Gulf Coast residents fleeing the path of Hurricane Gustav on Saturday and made plans to visit Mississippi even as he reintroduced running mate Sarah Palin to a raucous crowd in a key battleground state.
Bloomberg - Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama jumped to his biggest
lead since late July in public opinion polls, after his Aug. 28
speech to more than 75,000 people in a Denver football stadium
when he accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
Politico - On Saturday evening, CNN broadcast Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s campaign appearance on an Ohio football field, with the live feed taking up roughly three-quarters of viewers’ television screens.
Reuters - White House hopeful John McCain and
running mate Sarah Palin hit the campaign trail as a team on
Saturday, seeking to build on the momentum of her surprise
addition to the Republican ticket even as Hurricane Gustav
threatened to overshadow next week’s party convention.
Politico - Asked at a press conference Saturday night to respond to McCain’s argument that Palin has more executive experience than the Democratic ticket, Obama and Biden laughed.
Politico - As a record 38 million tuned in to watch Barack Obama accept his party’s nomination on Friday and 85,000 more saw the speech live from Invesco Field at Mile High, the nominee seemed determined to disprove Mario Cuomo’s adage that “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
AP - John McCain will try to reclaim his reformist image at a Republican National Convention tightly scripted to put some distance between the conservative presidential candidate and his party’s unpopular standard-bearer, President Bush.