Election 2008: President (Updated)

• Along with The Associated Press, the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington and The Charleston Gazette offer follow-up coverage from Hillary Clinton's rally Thursday at the state Capitol. The Gazette also offers video.

• The Intelligencer covered Thursday's appearance by Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney in Wheeling to stump for Barack Obama.

• Bill Clinton continues to hit small towns throughout the state on behalf of his wife. Besides AP, the Herald-Dispatch, MetroNews and The Parkersburg News report.

• (Update) AP's Tom Breen files from the road as he continues to track the former president's multi-town sweep through West Virginia. "Hillary Rodham Clinton is counting on a victory in West Virginia, and it's her husband's job to run up the score," Breen writes.
  

• The Register-Herald and the Bluefield Daily-Telegraph were among those covering Bill Clinton's Thursday barnstorming. The Beckley paper also reports separately on his Fayette County visit, and on a site snafu at another stop.

• (Update) CBS News has posted video on YouTube of the former president's exchange with, as AP reported, "a heckler in Fayetteville who shouted that neither he nor Hillary had done anything to work toward universal health coverage during his presidency."

• Obama is also appealing to Mountain State voters via Max Kennedy, with the son of Robert F. Kennedy visiting Huntington, the Herald-Dispatch reports.

• As one of West Virginia's several holdout "superdelegates," Gov. Joe Manchin remains uncommitted to either campaign, his spokeswoman tells MetroNews (with audio.)

• The Gazette revisits its 1964 coverage of the maverick bid by U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, for the presidency.

• The Register-Herald and the Times-West Virginian of Fairmont examine West Virginia's time in the national media spotlight as Tuesday's primary nears.

• (Update) Public Broadcasting compares JFK's message from West Virginia's 1960 primary, the last one to attract such national attention, with that of Clinton and Obama. With video.

• (Update) the Charleston Daily Mail reports that "Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Rep. Nick Rahall, two of West Virginia's superdelegates backing Barack Obama, say they're sticking with him despite polls showing Hillary Clinton a heavy favorite in the state."