http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/309 Category: Presidential Election en-us Copyright 2008 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:06:50 -0400 RICHMOND The ACLU of Virginia says voters should be allowed to wear T-shirts and buttons advertising their political viewpoints at polling places on Election Day. The group wants the State Board of Elections to revise its policy on banning materials classified as electioneering from polling places. The board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a position statement regarding the policy. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/aclu-wants-shirts-buttons-allowed-election-day Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:22:02 -0400 By Ben Smith Despite championing immigration reform in 2007, John McCain is poised to lose the Hispanic vote by a landslide margin that is well below President George W. Bush's 2004 performance. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/polls-show-mccain-far-behind-hispanic-vote Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:47:29 -0400 SUFFOLK Wearing a bright red dress and sweet smile, Roberta McCain seemed perfectly at ease among hordes of Republicans who all but swept her off her feet at the Suffolk Peanut Fest on Thursday. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/mccain%E2%80%99s-mom-shares-smile-memories-suffolk-fest Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:24:05 -0400 CHESAPEAKE Frank Scarborough paused briefly before touching the screen to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ezra Pound. But he reconsidered. Maybe John F. Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway would make a better president and poet laureate. Then, he went back and erased his choices. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/poll-workers-prepare-large-turnout-voters%E2%80%99-short-tempers Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:41:32 -0400 RICHMOND By the time John McCain and Sarah Palin campaign in Virginia Beach on Monday - their second appearance in the state this election season - Barack Obama and Joe Biden, their Democratic rivals in the presidential race, collectively will have been to Virginia nearly a dozen times. That disparity provides a window into the two campaigns in this battleground state. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/mccain-makes-virginia-rare-stop-campaign-trail Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:40:50 -0400 VIRGINIA BEACH Retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy and retired Sgt. Maj. John Estrada will be in Virginia Beach on Sunday to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to a campaign news release. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/veterans-campaign-obama-sunday-virginia-beach Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:08:46 -0400 RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina added more than 600,000 voters to its rolls in the first nine months of the year, swamping election officials who are scrambling to process the paperwork of those eager to cast a ballot. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/nc-voter-registrations-pour-deadline-looms Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:13:58 -0400 A national voter protection organization said Thursday that Virginia is among several states that are unprepared to handle the anticipated surge of voters in the Nov. 4 election, with the potential for long lines to discourage voting. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/virginia-not-ready-election-day-surge-voters-group-says Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:14:45 -0400 The high-energy election fever that gripped local evangelicals in the 2004 presidential race has shifted this year to black churchgoers stirred by the battle between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/election-energizes-black-church-congregants Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:48:08 -0400 John McCain and Sarah Palin won't be the only headliners at Monday's campaign rally in Virginia Beach -- the two members of the Republican presidential ticket will be joined at the event by country music legend Hank Williams Jr. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/hank-williams-jr-will-join-mccain-and-palin-virginia-beach Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:16:43 -0400