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A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said.

Maintenance workers reported about 7:45 a.m. finding a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout near the Catamount statute at the entrance to campus, said Tom Johnson, chief of university police.

"It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head," Johnson said.

A 74-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man with Obama signs in their front yards near the 600 block of South Villa Avenue received similar letters that had a Villa Park Village Hall return address. "Get the Obama signs off your property—now," the letter reads. "Failure to obey this order will result in the immediate death of all family members." Both residents said they will not remove their signs, though the man, who had voted Republican for 25 years before switching parties this year, said his wife is worried about letting their 7-year-old son play alone outside.

(CNN) — The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error and depends heavily on a dramatic comeback in Pennsylvania, which hasn't backed a Republican for president in 20 years.

While Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado are still officially listed as McCain target states, two top strategists and advisers tell CNN that the situation in those states looks increasingly bleak. Iowa and New Mexico always have been viewed as difficult races, but the similar assessment of Colorado reflects a dramatic shift for a campaign that had long counted on the state.

jim wrote:

cpebbles wrote:

This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

He wasn't at all misleading. I guess he forgot to mention that he wrote a positive review of one of Ayers' nonfiction works, which is, in my mind at least, much less of an issue than the allegations that he did address.

ghostrunner wrote:

cpebbles wrote:

This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

He wasn't at all misleading. I guess he forgot to mention that he wrote a positive review of one of Ayers' nonfiction works, which is, in my mind at least, much less of an issue than the allegations that he did address.

I don't see how that doesn't mischaracterize the extent of the relationship. There's no mention (from him) of them working on the same board or Ayres holding an event for him in his house. Hillary mentioning it, and him not responding to it, doesn't count.

I don't think it's a big deal in the grand scheme. But it's not entirely truthful either and Hillary's (somewhat disingenuous) point about it being a bone of contention seems to have been proven.

cpebbles wrote:

ghostrunner wrote:

cpebbles wrote:

This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

He wasn't at all misleading. I guess he forgot to mention that he wrote a positive review of one of Ayers' nonfiction works, which is, in my mind at least, much less of an issue than the allegations that he did address.

I don't see how that doesn't mischaracterize the extent of the relationship. There's no mention (from him) of them working on the same board or Ayres holding an event for him in his house. Hillary mentioning it, and him not responding to it, doesn't count.

I don't think it's a big deal in the grand scheme. But it's not entirely truthful either and Hillary's (somewhat disingenuous) point about it being a bone of contention seems to have been proven.

It was stated for him by the moderator, right before he spoke.