Posted: 6:37 AM A new poll finds growing support for ending California's death penalty, but backers of an initiative on Tuesday's ballot still lack the majority they need to pass it.

Posted: 6:35 AM It's a fairly safe bet, based on polls and history, that non-Hispanic white voters will choose Republican Mitt Romney by a wide margin in Tuesday's presidential election. And that's a problem for the GOP.

Posted: 6:33 AM Gone are the days of voting for America's president behind a curtain with an old-fashioned lever machine. Almost gone, too, are the days of punch-card ballots and those unforgettable hanging chads.

Updated: 6:49 PM About two dozen protestors gathered outside the convention center before Congressman Ryan arrived to deliver his speech. Member of the Pro-Obama group each represented those issues which sharply contrast the two campaigns.

Updated: 3:46 PM The Republican National Committee alleges voting machines in Nevada and five other states are flawed and improperly casting votes for President Obama.

Updated: 2:09 PM If Mitt Romney wins the White House, he would bring a CEO's eye to the job and a policy agenda based on a general set of principles and focused more on data than ideology.

Updated: 1:16 PM If he won again, President Barack Obama would govern with a window of leverage, an eye on his legacy and the luxury of lessons learned.

Updated: 9:59 PM President Barack Obama is headed to Las Vegas on a busy campaign day that also has vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan stopping in Nevada.

Posted: 6:06 AM A resurgent Mitt Romney is popping up more in other Republican candidates' ads as both parties press their closing arguments in closely contested Senate races.

Posted: 6:03 AM A tribal newspaper in Arizona is publishing a detailed voter guide for the first time ever. A New Mexico pueblo is sending kindergartners home with get-out-the-vote buttons for their parents. Tribes in Wisconsin are reaching out to young adults with a Rock the Vote event

Posted: 6:00 AM President Barack Obama dives back into campaigning after three days immersed in managing the federal response to the storm that battered the East Coast.

Posted: 5:54 AM Don't like the latest poll numbers on the presidential race? Just wait. More are coming - probably before you can say "margin of sampling error."

Posted: 5:52 AM Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took his three children trick-or-treating in their Wisconsin hometown of Janesville on Halloween.

Updated: 2:23 PM President Barack Obama is telling people recovering from Sandy's devastation along New Jersey's coastline that "we are here for you, and we will not forget."

Updated: 1:37 PM Mitt Romney is hearing criticism today on several fronts, over the way his campaign ads are describing President Barack Obama's auto industry bailout.

Updated: 11:22 AM President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have begun an hour-long aerial tour of New Jersey hurricane damage aboard Obama's Marine One helicopter.

Updated: 6:50 PM Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan will hold a campaign event in Reno Thursday.

Posted: 6:37 AM President Barack Obama plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday with stops in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado, in his first campaign events since before a massive storm throttled the East Coast.

Posted: 6:34 AM Sen. Dianne Feinstein says pending federal spending cuts could cost thousands of jobs in California.

Posted: 3:07 AM Mitt Romney is planning to host an Ohio rally Friday evening to launch a four-day sprint to Election Day.

Updated: 3:18 PM Republican Mitt Romney seems determined to soften his emphasis on abortion and ignore facts critical to the auto industry as he seeks support from key voting groups in the waning days of a close presidential race. That's the message in ads, his own remarks and most recently the words of a top supporter.

Updated: 12:42 PM President Barack Obama will travel to storm-stricken New Jersey on Wednesday to view damage from the massive storm that struck the East Coast and to thank first responders.

Updated: 12:38 PM Could superstorm Sandy postpone the presidential election?

Updated: 11:39 AM President Barack Obama is warning the public that the massive storm that struck the East Coast "is not yet over."

Updated: 4:23 PM Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton have criticized Mitt Romney for saying that Chrysler is shifting production of its Jeep brand autos from Ohio to China.