CNN Poll Shows Obama's Slightly Ahead

CSUN graduate student arrested in Tehran!

Esha Momeni has been arrested in Tehran while working on her thesis project for Cal. State Northridge on October 15. According to Change For Equality, an Iranian women's movement, Ms. Momeni was arrested for unlawfully passing another vehicle while driving. The subject of her Master's thesis was on the Iranian women's movement.

Ms. Momeni was part of the Change 4 Equality campaign in California. She went to Iran a couple months ago for the one-million signature petition which demanding change to discriminatory laws.

According to CNN.com, " Momeni is being held in a section of Tehran's notorious Evin Prison that is managed by the Intelligence Ministry, the group said. Evin Prison houses many Iranian dissidents and political prisoners, and it is where four Iranian-Americans were held for several months last year. All have been released."

World Organization Against Torture's Appeal for Immediate Release of Esha Momeni reports,
"This appeal also calls for the government of Iran to protect other women's activists and human rights defenders, including from judicial harassment. It notes that Iran has an obligation to do so according to the provisions of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other international human rights instruments, all of which Iran has ratified."

CNN.com also reported that "Iranian Officials had promised Ms. Momeni's family that she would be immediately released if news of her arrest were not published, the organization said."

I'm personally sending my prayers to Esha Momeni and her family. I commend her for being extremely brave and wish to meet heronce she returns safely to the United States.

Obama raises $150 million

Senator Barack Obama’s campaign announced on Sunday that it broke its own record raising more than $150 million in September.

He's previous record was of $67 million in one month. The Democrat's campaign released the figure Sunday, one day before it must file a detailed report of its monthly finances with the Federal Election Commission.

The previous record for the single biggest monthly fund-raising month was held by Senator John F. Kerry, when he collected $44 million in March 2004 after clinching the Democratic nomination.

Senator McCain outraged over New York Times story on wife

John McCain's campaign is expressing outrage over a New York Times story that focuses on Cindy McCain's marriage to the Arizona senator, including her miscarriages, her past addiction to painkillers and her failure in Washington to fit in.

The campaign's outrage comes on the heels of a letter Cindy McCain's attorney, John Dowd, wrote earlier this month to New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller accusing him of biased coverage for not pursuing more information about Obama's personal life.

"It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama," Dowd wrote in the letter, which the campaign has made public now in response to the latest report by the Times.

"The New York Times has stooped lower than this campaign ever imagined possible in an attempt to discredit a woman whose only apparent sin is being married to the man that would oppose that paper's preferred candidate, Barack Obama, in his quest for the presidency," McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb wrote in the statement released Saturday.

Colin Powell will vote for Obama!

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday the he will vote for Senator Barack Obama on NBC's Meet the Press.

"I think he is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Sen. Barack Obama," said Colin Powell

He continued by questionining the negative campagin Senator John McCain has launched linking Obama to the 1960s radical Bill Ayers.

"I think that's inappropriate. I understand what politics is about -- I know how you can go after one another, and that's good. But I think this goes too far, and I think it has made the McCain campaign look a little narrow. It's not what the American people are looking for," he said.

Senator McCain said on Fox News that he admires Powell and his announcement, "doesn't come as a surprise."

Powell served as Secretary of State under President Bush from 2001 to 2005.

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Registered Voters

In Los Angeles County we have 5,769,647 eligible voters as of Sept. 5 and about 69 percent of them are registered according to the Secretary of State.



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