McCain In Speech Today: "We've Got Them Just Where We Want Them"
In his stump speech today in Virginia Beach, John McCain will seek to fire up his supporters in the face of the latest bad polls numbers. "My friends, we've got them just where we want them," McCain will say, according to pre-released excerpts.

Barack Obama In Ohio, Michelle In Minnesota, Biden In New Hampshire
Barack Obama is campaigning today in Toledo, Ohio, where he will be making a major speech on the economy, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. ET. Michelle Obama is in Minnesota, with a 1 p.m. ET event in Rochester and a 5 p.m. ET rally in St. Paul. Joe Biden is in New Hampshire today, with a 10 a.m. ET event in Rochester and a 1:30 p.m. ET event in Manchester, and will then head back to Delaware to address the state Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at 7 p.m. ET.

McCain And Palin In Virginia, Plus McCain In North Carolina
John McCain and Sarah Palin are holding a joint rally at 11 a.m. ET in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The two will then split off for different events: McCain has a 2:15 p.m. ET rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Palin has a 2 p.m. ET rally in Richmond, Virginia.

Hillary In Pennsylvania Today
Hillary Clinton is on the campaign trail again today, with events in Pennsylvania in support of the Democratic ticket. Hillary will hold a "Conversation With Working Families" at 11 a.m. ET in Philadelphia, and will then hold a campaign rally in Horsham at 12:30 p.m. ET.

NYT Profiles Obama-Slanderer Andy Martin
The New York Times has a detailed profile today of Andy Martin, the man believed to have originated way back in 2004 the smears against Barack Obama as being a secret Muslim. The picture that emerges is astoundingly odd: Martin is a vocal anti-Semite who says an Obama presidency could threaten Israel, and is trained to practice law but has not been licensed to practice on mental-health grounds -- though he has been a prolific filer of lawsuits.

Virginia GOP Chairman Compares Obama To Osama Bin Laden
Virginia GOP chairman Jeff Frederick compared Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden, while addressing McCain campaign volunteers on Saturday, on the grounds that "both have friends that bombed the Pentagon." In a statement, the McCain campaign only partially backed away from Frederick's remarks: "While Barack Obama is associated with domestic terrorist William Ayers, the McCain campaign disagrees with the comparison that Jeff Frederick made."

Poll: Obama Ahead In North Dakota
A new Forum Poll in North Dakota gives Barack Obama a 45%-43% lead, within the ±4% margin of error, in a red state that hasn't voted Democratic since the LBJ landslide of 1964. All the other recent polls have given McCain the lead here, but it does seem possible that the economy is pushing even this state towards the Democrats.