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Friday, September 12 Race Poll Results Spread Missouri Rasmussen McCain 51, Obama 46 McCain +5 Washington Rasmussen Obama 49, McCain 47 Obama +2 National Gallup Tracking McCain 48, Obama 45 McCain +3 National Hotline/FD Tracking McCain 44, Obama 45 Obama +1 National Rasmussen Tracking McCain 48, Obama 45 McCain +3 National Associated Press/GfK McCain 48, Obama 44 McCain +4 Ohio Univ. of Cinci McCain 48, Obama 44 McCain +4 National Associated Press/GfK McCain 48, Obama 44, Nader 1, Barr 1 McCain +4

<p>I just called and said "There's a Republican revolt going on int the House Chamber and I wasn't seeing much coverage of it." I got a run around on it. Was told several times "There are no cameras on now. Cameras are not allowed." I objected, politely, that the story could still be covered.</p>

Democratic leaders backed away from aggressive plans to limit President Bush's war authority, the latest sign of divisions within their ranks over how to proceed.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), D-Nev., said Monday he wanted to delay votes on a measure that would repeal the 2002 war authorization and narrow the mission in Iraq. Senior Democrats who drafted the proposal, including Sens. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record) of Delaware and Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, had sought swift action on it as early as this week, when the Senate takes up a measure...

High drama and high-stakes politics put more than 50 Texas legislators on the lam from the law on Monday. Given the choice of being steamrollered on a Republican congressional redistricting plan or denying the state House of Representatives a quorum until a legislative deadline passes this week, 59 of the House's 62 Democrats surreptitiously slipped out of Austin, into hiding and onto quorumless, Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick's most-wanted list. It's not a bad strategy given the realities of the GOP juggernaut on the divisive and bad redistricting plan. Sometimes you have to be creative in your opposition and the...