Politico - John McCain poked fun at his running mate, Barack Obama and his own campaign's dwindling assets in an appearance Saturday on the opening sequence of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live.'

AP - In a new ad out Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama highlights Vice President Dick Cheney's support for Republican nominee John McCain.

Politico - The nimble Obama campaign is out with an ad playing up Vice President Cheney’s remarks on Saturday supporting Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president as an 'endorsement,' even though Cheney has long backed McCain.

AFP - Washington has asked Australia, New Zealand and the European Union if they could replace Japan in supplying energy aid to North Korea, South Korea's foreign minister was quoted as saying Saturday.

AP - Voting for president and having your ballot be the deciding one cast — statistically, that is like trying to hit the lottery. The odds for the average person are 60 million to 1 against it, a study shows.

AP - In a presidential race filled with broken barriers, money has shattered far more than its share.

Politico - Since Barack Obama gave a dramatic speech on the subject of race this spring, the issue has lingered over the election, a quiet, awkward factor that the candidates, their campaigns, and their surrogates have brushed aside or would rather not talk about at all.

AP - Elect Republicans or else.

AP - Battered by the financial meltdown, America's business community is anxiously calculating how Tuesday's presidential election will affect it.

AP - A state-by-state review of the race for the White House as well as key congressional and gubernatorial campaigns. The state's number of electoral votes is in parentheses.

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he hopes Bangladesh can make a peaceful transition to democracy through free and fair elections due in December.

AP - Barack Obama's campaign manager says the Democrat has many routes to victory in Tuesday's presidential election. Republicans predicted predicted a historic comeback for John McCain.

Politico - Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports:

AP - Republican John McCain is telling voters in Pennsylvania he knows momentum for his campaign is there.

AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is focusing on tax and leadership issues as she begins two days of campaigning in the must-win swing state of Ohio.

AP - The meteorologists tell us that Wednesday morning in southwestern Pennsylvania's largest city will be crisp and sunny with a high of 64. That's about all we know. Being a weather forecast, it offers nothing about the political climate that will have been created by the election the day before.

Politico - As the contest between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain tightens in its last days, another political battle is rivaling the presidential race for a nail-biting finish: the fight in California over Proposition 8, an initiative that would ban same-sex marriage.

AFP - Democrats are hoping to take a stranglehold on political power in Washington in Tuesday's election and are all but assured of expanding their majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives.

Politico - GARY, Ind. — While the relationship between Barack Obama and the Clintons remains complicated, associates in both camps say the dynamic has improved dramatically in recent months.

AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden made fun of a small group of protesters Sunday, then told supporters that the raucous Republicans are the same people they need to embrace once the election is over.

Bloomberg - Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans' chances in U.S. Senate races are doomed by an unpopular president, an unpopular war and a shrinking economy, John Ensign, head of the party's senatorial campaign committee, said today.

AP - On the final Sunday before Election Day, volunteers for both presidential candidates fanned out to churches in competitive states, congregations bused worshippers to polls to vote early and a battle of wills erupted in church parking lots over the distribution of political literature.

Politico - Barack Obama is on track to be the first Democrat to win a majority of the vote since 1976, according to the final pre-election poll by the Pew Research Center.

AP - Barack Obama says he thinks he might be headed for a win Tuesday night.

AP - John McCain held the final town hall meeting of his 2008 campaign Sunday in New Hampshire, where his victory in the state's January primary helped him secure the Republican presidential nomination.

Politico - In anticipation of a photo-finish presidential election, Democrats have built an administrative firewall designed to protect their electoral interests in five of the most important battleground states.

CQPolitics.com - Fighting a criminal conviction and backlash from his Senate colleagues, Ted Stevens is hoping Alaskans will take a two-minute time-out from Monday night football to hear him out.

Politico - The liberal 'community organizing' group ACORN became a campaign issue last month after Nevada's Democratic attorney general and its Democratic secretary of state teamed up to conduct a highly visible raid of the group's Las Vegas offices. They seized files on what could be thousands of fraudulent voter registrations.

AP - Months of tension between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and his Democratic rival, Al Franken, spilled into their last debate Sunday night as they traded heated accusations about allegations made in a lawsuit against the incumbent.

AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Saturday he hopes to increase energy ties with Moscow during his first visit to post-Soviet Russia.