AP - Barack Obama expressed hope Saturday that the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina three years ago would help to protect the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Gustav this time. His running mate, Joe Biden, urged people to pray that the levees in New Orleans hold.
AP - Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are traveling to Mississippi on Sunday to check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav.
AP - Keep your eyes on Pennsylvania and Michigan.
AP - Barack Obama and Joe Biden survived their first public spat as running mates on Saturday. The subject: corn.
Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama jumped to his biggest
lead since late July in public opinion polls, after his
televised speech to more than 75,000 people in a Denver football
stadium and his Democratic National Convention reconciliation
with rival Hillary Clinton.
AP - There’s no room at the Xcel Energy Center for maverick Ron Paul, so his acolytes have packed their cars, hitched rides on “Ronvoys” and will pitch tents at Ronstock ‘08 in defiance of next week’s GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.
AP - As John McCain pushes the new Republican presidential ticket of McCain-Palin, Democrat Barack Obama is promoting another Republican brand McCain-Bush.
AP - The Democrats had the awkwardness of the Clintons at their convention. Republicans now have their version of a precarious guest: President Bush.
AP - Republican National Convention protesters targeted in a series of police raids Friday night and Saturday say they won’t back down from their plans to march on the event’s opening day.
AP - In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from small-town mayor with a taste for mooseburgers to the governor’s office and now making history to John McCain’s side as the first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket.