VANDALS STRIKE: Vandals scrawled graffiti on the homes and garages of several members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation, targeting both Republicans and Democrats with words including “scum” and “resign.” Representatives of Sens. Norm Coleman and Amy Klobuchar and Reps. Jim Ramstad, John Kline, Keith Ellison and Michele Bachmann confirmed the vandalism Wednesday.
NEW POLLS: A new Associated Press-GfK poll showed John McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The survey showed Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. In the latest Gallup Poll daily tracking update, Obama had a 9 percentage-point lead over McCain — 51 percent to 42 percent — among registered voters.
TOUCHY SCREENS? West Virginia’s chief elections officer is defending the state’s touch-screen voting machines after a handful of complaints that some of the devices had switched votes from Democratic to Republican candidates in several races.
