CAMPAIGN TRAIL: Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008

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Published: November 1, 2008

Obama runs ads In GOP states

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Democrat Barack Obama broadened his advertising campaign on Friday into two once reliably Republican states and further bedeviled rival John McCain by placing a commercial in the Republican presidential nominee’s home state of Arizona. Obama’s campaign, capitalizing on his vast financial resources and a favorable political climate, announced it was going back up with advertising in Georgia and North Dakota.

Palin receives Grudging nod

WASHINGTON — A former secretary of state and supporter of Republican John McCain says McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, isn’t up to the task of taking over the presidency in a crisis but could become "adequate” if not "a genius in the job.”

Obama’s aunt is Illegally in U.S.

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the U.S. illegally, The Associated Press has learned. Zeituni Onyango, 56, was told to leave the U.S. four years ago by an immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. It would represent an administrative, noncriminal violation of U.S. immigration law.

McCain plans Trip to ‘SNL’

WASHINGTON — My friends, it’s John McCain, live from New York, just three days before the election. Aides to the Republican presidential candidate said Friday that McCain will make a detour from battleground states to appear on "Saturday Night Live.”

FROM WIRE SERVICES