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ST LOUIS Missouri (CNN) – Political Editor Mark Preston takes us
behind the scenes at the St Louis Vice Presidential debate.
Hollywood actor Jon Voight, the father of Angelina Jolie, speaks with CNN's Ed Henry Saturday outside a McCain-Palin campaign event that featured Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Carson, California. (Photo credit: Michael Haan/CNN)
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ABOARD THE ELECTION EXPRESS
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri (CNN)– With all the things that the presidential and vice presidential candidates are throwing at each other as Election Day grows closer, we may have found the perfect place for them to spend a few hours.
We first took note of it by chance. From the window as we crossed Missouri, we were seeing any number of billboards for restaurants and hotels– most of them chain operations. They barely registered.
But then a sign flashed by that made us turn around and try to make certain we’d seen it.
The sign– we thought– advertised a restaurant as being “The Only Home of Throwed Rolls.”
Not “thrown rolls,” which would have been odd enough– but “throwed rolls.“
We talked about it for a few seconds, but there was no chance to go back and see if our eyes had been deceiving us, because we had to get to our destination.
Throwed rolls?
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(CNN) - The McCain campaign decided this week that the battleground state of Michigan may be out of reach for the Republican ticket this year - a move that's drawn criticism from one prominent dissenter: VP nominee Sarah Palin.
Earlier: McCain cedes Michigan to Obama
In an interview with Fox News Friday the Republican vice presidential candidate appeared to be disappointed with the decision and said she still wants to take a stab at winning the state that hasn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate in two decades.
She also said she made her disagreement known to top campaign officials:
"I fired a quick e-mail and said, 'oh, come on! Do we have to call it there?' she said. " Todd and I would [be] happy to get to Michigan and walk through those plants [with] car manufacturers.
"We'd be so happy to get to speak with the people there in Michigan, who are hurting because the economy is hurting," she added. "Whatever we can do and whatever Todd and I can do in realizing what their challenges in that state are, as we can relate to them and connect with them and promise them that we won't let them down in the administration."
Earlier: Palin calls Obama comment 'reckless,' criticizes Couric
McCain aides told CNN Thursday Michigan increasingly appeared a long shot the Arizona senator and the campaign had decided to divert its resources there to other key battleground states. The latest CNN poll of polls in Michigan shows Obama with an 8 point lead in the state where the nation's economic woes have hit hard.
Related: McCain dropped $2 million before pulling up Michigan stake
But Palin maintained Friday she and McCain still have a shot there.
"I want to get back to Michigan, and I want to try," she said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) - Lawmakers backing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appealed a judge's refusal to block the state Legislature's investigation into her firing of the state's public safety commissioner, according to documents filed in court Friday.
"If this unconstitutional and unlawful investigation is allowed to continue, is completed, and if the resulting report is released as planned, Plaintiffs and Alaskans in general will suffer irreparable harm," lawyers for the Liberty Legal Foundation told the Alaska Supreme Court.
The Texas-based conservative group is representing Republican legislators who support Palin and are asking the Alaska Supreme Court to shut down the probe, which they call "biased."
Liberty spokeswoman Jennifer Grisham told CNN that the court had accepted the appeal and would likely hear it next week.
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