Washington, Oct. 7 : Barack Obama has decided to target John McCain for his role in the "Keating Five" savings-and-loan scandal as a rejoinder to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin questioning his ties to Vietnam-era radical William Ayers.

Attempting to link the early-1990s scandal to the current economic crisis, the Obama campaign launched a Web site devoted to "Keating Economics," including a documentary-style video of McCain''s involvement and news clips of his Senate testimony.

Clearwater (Florida, US), Oct. 7 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has decided to continue with her anti-Obama remarks in the run-up to the November 4 presidential poll.

In the latest salvo, Palin told Fox News that she doesn''t know why Obama''s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is off-limits for discussion, calling his anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks ''appalling.''

Palin also isn''t backing down on questioning Barack Obama''s relationship with William Ayers, the co-founder of the Weather Underground terrorist group.

Washington - As Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain prepare for the second presidential debate on Tuesday, their campaigns have taken on a nastier tone on the airwaves and over the internet.

Obama revived McCain's role in the savings and loans scandal of the late 1980s and early 1990s, while the Arizona senator's campaign called Obama "dangerous" and emphasized his meeting in 1995 with a member of a radical 1960s anti-Vietnam war group.

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Washington, Oct. 6 : Senator Barack Obama has decided to preempt plans by Senator John McCain to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.

Obama officials call it political jujitsu - turning the attacks back on the attacker.

McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers.

But Obama isn''t waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying:

Washington, Oct. 6 : Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is poised to benefit from a wave of newcomers to the rolls in key states in numbers that far outweigh any gains made by Republicans.

In the past year, the rolls have expanded by about four million voters in a dozen key states. George W. Bush carried the eleven states that Obama is targeting -- Ohio, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico -- in 2004.