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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday accused the McCain campaign of trying to distract Americans from their economic woes by launching "unbecoming personal attacks" at Barack Obama.

When class lets out for Michelle and Barack Obama's two daughters, their grandmother is there to pick them up.

When 10-year-old Malia needs her hair done in the two-strand twist style she likes, a family friend brings a beautician to the Obama house.

And when Michelle Obama and her husband both recently campaigned out of town, their girls stayed with another friend who regularly shuttles 7-year-old Sasha to ballet class

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The most persistent falsehood about Senator Barack Obama’s background first hit in 2004 just two weeks after the Democratic convention speech that helped set him on the path to his presidential candidacy: “Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion.”

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a Democratic rejoinder to the Republican chant of "drill, baby, drill." Said the one-time presidential candidate: "Jobs, baby, jobs."

Campaigning for her once bitter rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, the New York senator told about 1,500 people at an historic farm in suburban Horsham, that her husband's administration produced a balanced budget and a surplus.

Democrat Barack Obama issued a statement this evening cautiously optimistic about today's rally on Wall Street.

SOUTH BOSTON, Va. - Its name notwithstanding, Executive Cuts barber shop is a cluttered, old-fashioned African-American tonsorial parlor: The worn screen door leads to a long room with heavy barber chairs lined up on a checkerboard floor. The barbers tape family snapshots on their oversized work-station mirrors, and there's a wall poster promoting fatherhood on the wall, of a black man reading to a child on his lap.

Proprietor Wayne Ferguson is a retired soldier who enlisted to leave this tiny, quiet Virginia town and see the world, but came home to care for ailing parents and start his own business. After nearly a decade away, Ferguson, 52, said much has changed but a lot remains the same - namely, what he calls a "plantation mentality" among some black residents.

"I come back, and it's still the same: blacks not doing anything, not progressing," he said, deftly shaving a client's head. "People leave out of here, go away, come back and nothing's changed. It's kind of frustrating."

Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, made two Minnesota stops today.

At Macalester College in St. Paul this afternoon, a crowd estimated by the fire marshal at about 4,500 listened as Obama exhorted them to do their part to get her husband elected.

In 2004, Democrats watched as any chance of defeating President Bush slipped away in a wave of Republican turnout that exceeded even the goal-beating numbers that their own side had produced.

Four years later, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign intends to avoid a repeat by building an organization modeled in part on what Karl Rove used to engineer Bush's victory: a heavy reliance on local volunteers to pitch to their own neighbors, micro-targeting techniques to identify persuadable independents and Republicans using consumer data, and a focus on exurban and rural areas.

But in scale and ambition, the Obama organization goes beyond even what Rove built. The campaign has used its record-breaking fundraising to open more than 700 offices in more than a dozen battleground states, pay several thousand organizers and manage tens of thousands more volunteers.

Barring a dramatic change in the political landscape over the next three weeks, Democrats appear headed toward a decisive victory on Election Day that would give them broad power over the federal government.

For the first time in more than a decade, Florida Republicans are considering the almost unthinkable: Their presidential nominee could lose the state.

For all their differences, Barack Obama and John McCain have often shared common ground on one volatile issue: immigration.

Saying the nation's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression, presidential candidate Barack Obama this afternoon unveiled an economic rescue plan for the middle class at a downtown Toledo rally.

ROME (Reuters) - A 106-year-old American nun who became a minor celebrity after she appeared on television saying she is voting for Barack Obama is "startled and a bit anguished" by all the attention she is getting, her order said on Monday.

Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary campaigned together for the first time Sunday for Barack Obama, vowing to fight to elect him to the White House.

Barack Obama jetted back to Ohio today to spend three days preparing for his final debate with John McCain. But before he holed up with his advisers, the candidate began knocking on doors in Holland, Ohio, making his way through a neighborhood of modest ranch and split-level homes.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did not urge Iraqi officials to delay a decision on a security agreement with the United States, Iraq's foreign minister told CNN on Sunday.

What a difference a couple of weeks make.

Boosted by growing concern about the Wall Street meltdown and Main Street credit freeze, Sen. Barack Obama is closing the gap for Ohio's 20 electoral votes in next month's presidential election, according to the latest Ohio Newspaper Poll.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — For all the debating and spending on advertising, the next president of the United States is more likely to be determined by countless encounters like the one taking place on a suburban Missouri doorstep on the first Saturday in October.

A volunteer named Lisa Adams is earnestly trying to persuade a woman named Jan to vote for Democrat Barack Obama. Jan is torn between the Illinois senator and Republican John McCain, but mostly she is torn up over promises she said politicians don't keep.

PITT COUNTY - N.C. 11 runs through the heart of Pitt County, southward through fields still white with cotton, past homes where worry fills the air like humidity. Tractor-trailers rumble by, or they stop at the Country Mart for $3.99 diesel.

The four-lane highway links countless economic stories: of the cafe supervisor who must pay for a ride to work, the trucker who may soon file for bankruptcy, the unemployed woman whose trailer hasn't had electricity for a year.