McCain sort of can’t win here.

Parnes reports from Minnesota:

A man in the audience stood up and told McCain he’s "scared" of an Obama presidency and who he’d select for the Supreme Court.

"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama …

Obama is responding to the RNC’s Chicago-centric with a detailed ad, rebutting a couple of the charges and saying that "smears are all McCain has left."

(via Tapper)

Working to dampen the angry crowd meme, McCain tells his Minnesota rally to take it easy, Amie Parnes reports:

At a town hall in Minnesota, McCain tried to tone down a week of raucus, angry crowds after one man stood up …

Obama is up with this unreleased response ad in Ohio, pushing back against the Judicial Confirmation Network’s attack, which suggested Obama would appoint people like Ayers, Rezko, and Wright — rather than Alito and Roberts — to the Supreme …

Evan Tracey:

Obama is on pace to spend more on TV in the final 25 days of this election than John McCain’s entire $85 million matching-fund check. For those keeping score at home, Obama has aired more than 25,000 commercials …

In what’s a relatively rare stance for a presidential campaign, Obama allies are casting Obama as just as good as — not better than — John McCain on gun rights.

"When it comes to Barack Obama vs. John McCain on gun rights, it’s a …

Palin has scheduled a bus tour through a state that until, roughly, now, everyone had assumed was safely McCain’s.

West Virginia Democrats rejected Obama for "cultural" reasons in the primary, and it was a place where reporters …

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers pushes back against the storyline of rabid McCain crowds, and Obama’s criticism:

Barack Obama’s attacks on Americans who support John McCain reveal far more about him than they do about John McCain. It is clear that Barack …

In what both sides say is an innocent mistake, an Upstate New York county puts "Osama" on the ballot.

The Obama campaign quickly steps back from Obama’s candor yesterday, in which he said he’s sat on a board with Ayers because he assumed from his stature in Chicago that he’d been "rehabilitated:"

Obama spox Bill Burton says of Obama’s …