WASHINGTON — In the final weekend of the presidential campaign, John McCain is fighting to hold on to Republican-leaning states and trying to persuade voters to prove the polls and pundits wrong.
    
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By Josh Green, NBC17 Reporter

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — “800-J-McCAIN” won’t lead to you the Republican’s National Headquarters. Instead, it dials straight to a business in Rocky Mount, NC; into a small office; and an even smaller phone on Allie Stylc’s desk.

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Technician’s mock election.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain pledged Tuesday night in campaign debate to require the federal government to renegotiate the mortgages of individual homeowners and make them more affordable, a sweeping proposal to help families in the grip of a financial crisis.

With the economy on everyone’s mind, including North Carolinians, a new poll by Public Policy Polling says Barack Obama is now tied with John McCain in North Carolina.  For a look of the breakdown, click here.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – John McCain embarks on his final drive for the White House Thursday night, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and addressing the party’s national convention from a stage that workers were hastily rebuilding to fit his “town hall” approach.
     
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DENVER – John McCain tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate, two senior campaign officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
     
A formal announcement was expected within a few hours at a campaign rally in swing-state Ohio.
     
Palin, 44, is a self-styled hockey mom and political reformer who has been governor of her state less than two years.
     
Palin’s selection was a stunning surprise, as McCain passed over many other better known prospects, some of whom had been the subject of intense speculation for weeks or months.
     
At 44, she is a generation younger that Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who is Barack Obama’s running mate on the Democratic ticket.
     
She is three years Obama’s junior, as well – and McCain has made much in recent weeks of Obama’s relative lack of experience in foreign policy and defense matters.
     
Palin flew overnight to an airport in Ohio near Dayton, and even as she awaited her formal introduction, close aides said they had believed she was at home in Alaska.
     
She is a former mayor of Wasilla who became governor of her state in 2006 after ousting a governor of her own party in a primary and then dispatching a former governor in the general election.