By Mathew Katz and Laura Cameron

Workers in the Obama campaign office in York County, Pennsylvania have been abuzz for weeks about Leslie Warris, an African-American volunteer who has single-handedly registered 1,000 people to vote since June.

"She's never been involved in a campaign," said Anne Newman-Bacal, a white,...

Five central Pennsylvania voters explain their votes from a vintage diner in rough center city Allentown.

Keystone Voters in Pennsylvania from alex lowther on Vimeo.

McCain's Center City headquarters are located in the heart of Philadelphia's Chinatown. Here and elsewhere in this Democratic-leaning city, support for Obama is readily apparent in store and home windows. Photo: RANDALL MAH

BY RANDALL MAH

PHILADELPHIA, PA, 7:40 a.m., Oct. 26 -...

Capt. Rodney Knutson speaks to McCain supporters at downtown Philadelphia headquarters after a motorcycle caravan of about 30 bikers toured the city in support of McCain. Photo: RANDALL MAH

BY RANDALL MAH

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- A caravan of bikers, many of them tattooed...

By Insiyah Saeed

Nineteen year old Kayla Rodriguez displays a broad smile to anyone who enters Casa Obama. Rodriguez, a mass communications student, has been on the job for just over a week, at this West Tampa Obama campaign office set up specifically to target Latino and minority voters.

BY BRAD DAVIS

The archbishop of the Omaha archdiocese released a letter Saturday implying his flock of 220,000 should not cast their votes for Barack Obama because of the candidate's stance on abortion.

Omaha Archbishop Elden Curtiss

Without explicitly forbidding an Obama vote, Archbishop...

**By Insiyah Seeed**

WEST TAMPA, Fla., 12:35 a.m. -- Part of Obama's grassroots strategy in Florida is to get minorities -- especially the Latino community -- to get out and vote and the capaign opened separate office here, known as Casa Obama, in West Tampa to support the effort.

As...

**BY BRAD DAVIS**

OMAHA, Neb. -- In a drab, beige strip mall -- a Kwik Shop gas station on one side and a Chuck E. Cheese on the other -- a group of people say they're trying to change the world. Or at least a little part of it.

Barack...

**By Kristina Peterson**

HAZLETON, Pa. --- Hazle Township resident Anne Marie Shelby is blind in her right eye, so she shoots using her left. But the Pennsylvania gun owner will rely on her right hand to pull the lever for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama next week.

"He supports the...

**By Luis Andres Henao**

Last Saturday, Gerri Williams and Audrey Williams sat inside the food court at Steamtown mall escaping the rain that poured over the abandoned steam trains at the railroad yard in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Williams sisters -- who are in their fifties -- are Catholic but...

**By Erin Geiger Smith**

On Sunday, the crowds came to Media, Penn., population 5,500, for pony rides, fried Oreos, face painting and pumpkin purchasing. The presidential candidates also traveled to Delaware County recently, seeking votes instead of pumpkins.

Republican nominees Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, as well...

**By Esme E. Deprez**

HAZLETON, Pa. -- Nine years ago, Jeanie Bruno started having trouble being on her feet for long periods of time. Bouts of numbness and vertigo followed.

She was working as a nurse at the time, and one day, she remembered over a cup of tea...

ALLENTOWN, Pa., 12:00 a.m. --- Six hours after walking through the doors of Dina's Diner in working-class center city here I emerged into the gloaming outside. I'd just spent the latter half of the day talking politics with seven life-long residents of the...

By Insiyah Saeed
TAMPA - "There's not so many great, great men in this world," said actress Alicia Silverstone to a crowd of Obama supporters at downtown Tampa's Courthouse Square, today at 12:45 p.m. "He reminds me of a great papa," she continued, referring to Senator Obama. "And he's...

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By Luis Andres Henao

SCRANTON, PA-- On Friday night, this large neon sign on top of the electric building on Courthouse Square greeted us as we arrived to the new symbol of blue collar America.

Our first stop: The Veterans...

By Laura Cameron and Mathew Katz

YORK, PA,--After all the marching bands finished their songs, after every float went by, and Santa Claus waved at the people lining Market Street in York, Pennsylvania, the Sunday crowds quickly fled from the streets. Those remaining after this weekend celebration were fierce in...

By Insiyah Saeed

TAMPA - At a small auditorium in a modest neighborhood in Tampa, Jill Biden, wife of Senator Biden arrived a few minutes after 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, October 25th, to persuade local Floridians to vote. Earlier that day Mrs. Biden had been to rallies in Orlando and...

HAZLETON, PA, 3:30 p.m. -- Roughly 30 minutes past Scranton, we arrived in Hazleton Saturday morning, wind whipping and rain pouring. If I thought the weather might deter members of the Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association's online forum from picnicking, I was mistaken. When we...

By Mathew Katz and Laura Cameron

YORK, PA--Ed and Mike Taylor share the same face, but their views on the election couldn't differ more. The 38-year-old twins have lived in York City, Pennsylvania all their lives, and are both down on their luck, dressed this afternoon in similar torn, dirty...

By Brad Davis

OMAHA -- This city touts a market area of nearly 1.3 million, but it's still the sort of place where people ask where you went to high school.

A woman at Barack Obama's campaign office in North Omaha - the heart of the city's black community -...