Mid-Morning Read: Klein's Ambition, Libous' Race, Perkins' Marathon

“If one of the candidates doesn’t win, we need to be careful how we emotionally respond,” a reverend in a Harlem church said yesterday.

Hillary Clinton will be 70 in 2016, when Charles Hurt thinks she’ll next be able to run for president.

Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey predicts Barack Obama will win Florida.

The press conference Geoff Earle has been waiting for may come a little early.

Jeff Klein is not denying his interest in Malcolm Smith’s job as Democratic Leader of the State Senate (meeting Wednesday morning!).

But in this article, Klein says, “I wouldn’t fight Malcolm for leader.”

(Either way, Gershman kind of called it.)

With this many absentee ballots, don’t expect the Kuhl-Massa race to be called before bedtime Tuesday.

He's unopposed, but it's still an election of a lifetime for Binghamton Republican Tom Libous.

Congressional candidates talk issues, and Halloween costumes, with Onondaga voters.

That time-honored Election Day feature: the guy who has collected 2,000 campaign knick-knacks since Ike beat Adlai.

“I never expected this kind of personal assault,” said Dale Volker's challenger.

On a district tour, Sandy Treadwell swings through Glens Falls.

In exchange for voting to extend term limits, Kevin Sheekey offered to have Michael Bloomberg support Vincent Gentile for re-election, the Times reports.

Bill Perkins runs, literally, for Obama.

Buffalo Pundit gets an anti-Joe Mesi robocall, and wants to know who made it.

James Heaney thinks Board of Elections Commissioner Ralph Mohr is asking Tom Golisano legitimate questions about his finances.

Robert Harding isn’t happy about the debate between congressional candidates Alice Kryzan and Chris Lee.

Mike Muller writes about webcasting.

And Gatemouth channels a famous Danny Kaye scene.