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Favorite Halloween costume as a kid?

Hobo. Mostly because my mother picked out some of my clothes I could destroy to look like a bum…we got a tree stick and put a bag at the end of it ..my dad stomped on one of his hats for me and put charcoal on my face. It all seemed illegal. Livin’ the dream at the age of 5

Favorite scary movie?

“Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.” I only saw it once and had nightmares for years. I believe it involved a severed head bumping down the stairs.

Best Halloween memory?
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The GOP confirms it’s making robocalls in a “half dozen” states accusing Barack Obama of having “worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayres.” And a source says the Republican National Committee will pump $70 million into the ground game in these final weeks of the presidential campaign.

Here’s the text of the robocall on Ayres:

“Hello. I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayres, whose organization bombed the U.S. capital, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country. This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee at 202-863-8500.”

I am told “hundreds of thousands of contacts are being made” in half a dozen states including Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio. And the source says robocalls will also be made on other subjects, including abortion.
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Amy Holmes: 10:40p ET - Palin: A+. The plus is for wildly exceeding expectations. She more than held her own. She was polished, direct, folksy, and on message. She stressed her personal experience both as a mom and as a governor, from the kitchen table to the executive branch, her record as a reformer and bipartisan deal maker. She even got Biden to agree with her. Read more…

Roland Martin: Expectations are high for Palin AND Biden. Many of you read my commentary this week on CNN.com and I haven’t changed my opinion.

I’m tired of Washington journalists continuing to say that the expectations are low, and the bar even lower, for Gov. Sarah Palin.

And the same goes for Sen. Joe Biden. Read more…

Amy Holmes: 9:40p ET - Were those Katie Couric interviews a devious head fake? I’ve heard Biden say at least twice now that he agrees with Palin. First on the issue of windfall profits, and then on the issue of gay marriage. Regarding the first, he actually said he and Obama would like to do what the Governor did in Alaska. Economic conservatives won’t like it. But for debate purposes: advantage Palin.

Candy Crowley: 9:35p ET - Palin veers off course — the question is about helping consumers with crushing debt, and she’s responding with energy policy. Politicians frequently change the subject, but this was a pretty obvious 180.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama makes a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Wednesday.

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Editor’s Note: Candy spoke with Wolf Blitzer last night after Barack Obama was declared the Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate. Here’s what she had to say:

One quick story: We were down in Mississippi at one point at Jackson State University, I think, and we were doing our live shots and there were guards all around and local police. And there was one local policeman stationed right where we were and so I was talking to him and he was from Jackson. And I said, you know, have you ever heard (Barack Obama) speak before?

And he said no. And I said well this will be exciting. And he said oh, well I have to — I’m working, you know. But I’ve seen him on TV. And about halfway through Obama’s speech, I looked over at this guard and saw tears just streaming down his face.

So you saw that a lot… and you knew what a sense of history and how important this really was, in particular, to African-Americans.

But I will also tell you that Obama tends to draw very diverse crowds. And I would say — ask white people in the crowd, what do you like about him? And they generally said well, he’s against the war or I like this or that plan. But the second thing they almost always said to me invariably was, I think it would say so much about our country if we nominated a half-black, half-white man. I think it would say how much we’ve progressed over the years.

So you always got that sense of history when you were traveling with Obama, from the very first day that I was with him in Springfield, Illinois, when he announced. You would ask people, what are you doing here? Because it was freezing. And there were just blocks and blocks and blocks of people.

You’d say, why are you here?
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Senator Barack Obama, waves as he boards his campaign plane in Tel Aviv, Thursday. Obama is en route to Berlin, kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip.

Candy Crowley
CNN Senior Political Correspondent

Tel Aviv to Berlin - aboard a plane we can believe in.

If I have calculated the time difference correctly, you are reading this blog at approximately… next winter.

So here I am with the presumptive Democratic nominee — streaking across the Middle East and Europe on a five-day campaign trip …oh sorry. A journey to discuss substantive issues with important U.S. allies, Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams.
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Senior Political Corespondent

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Travel Tip: New Hampshire is as hot in the summer as it is cold in the winter.

Best part of the trip to Unity: The Honorary Mayor introduced Obama and Clinton by telling us he’s been a Republican all his life and voted for John McCain in the primary.

Readers Digest version:

She said any of her voters who were thinking about voting for McCain need to think again.

He started with an ode to Hillary, all historical and stuff, and then right in the middle he said, “She Rocks. That’s what I’m trying to say.”

Oh and a Clinton type dropped by as I was madly putting together a report to tell me that Hillary donated the maximum amount allowed to the Obama for President Campaign.

Also–sit down for this–Guess who else ponied up? William Jefferson Clinton

Wheels up back to DC

Kumbaya

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Touchdown Manchester.

Apparently nothing untoward happened on the plane because now they are riding in an RV together. Yet another lost opprtunity for a hidden tape recorder.

BTW; the campaign says they absolutely positively did not plan to have his tie match her suit.

I have failed you, dear reader–i tried for substance. I asked a top advisor for the substance of the day.

He laughed.

I pressed another for news of any day.

Noper

On cell now to see if i can find any..

We are off-a 16 vehicle motorcade not counting the new hampshire state police escort

Hour and a half drive to the Unity for Change rally in Unity, New Hampshire…in accidentally matching outfits.

Methinks they doth try too hard. It’s giving me a sugar high.

AC360° obtained exclusive cell phone images from inside a meeting between Clinton fundraisers, Sen. Clinton, and Sen. Obama. Candy Crowley discuss Obama's donation to the campaign of his former opponent.

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We are all aboard the love plane here at national airport.

So far so good for the dynamic duo.

They are seated next to each other exactly 14 rows up. Only now does it occur to me I should have hidden a tape recorder between the seats. But maybe it’s more fun to imagine what they’re talking about. Her debt? Her husband? His wife?

Are you sitting down?

They kissed while greeting each other on the tarmac.

Just a light brush on the cheek–he to her. Sort of like second cousins once removed who share the same last name but have never met before.

What? You were looking for substance at 9;30 in the morning?

Rolling down the tarmac–on the lookout for substance from Unity.

Wheels up

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Senior Political Corespondent

I have office fever. Two weeks at the mother ship is…let me count here…ok, approximately two weeks too long.

So I’m climbing aboard Air Obama.

Do you think he’ll make HRC sit in coach? I mean really-raise your hand if you think they like each other.

All right already - enough with Unity-minus-Bill-week. Let’s get the picture of the two of them with hands above their heads and move it along.

It doesn’t matter. Politics is the art of the practical.

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Honestly, sometimes this job is so much fun because really you can’t make this stuff up.

Ready?

This Friday, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will appear together at a “Unite for Change” rally in Unity, New Hampshire where the final vote tally in the primary was 107 to 107.

Personally, I would have preferred Battleground, Washington or Defiance, Missouri but I think those spots might have been off-message…which is — all together now —

UNITY

So, Unity, New Hampshire for a Unite for Change rally.

I’m there.