Election 2008 Shorts

• The Mountain Party's candidate for governor, Jesse Johnson, has been shut out of an Oct. 13 debate hosted by the West Virginia Broadcasters Association, but "hopes to use the courts - or the court of public opinion - to crash the party," The Charleston Gazette reports.

• Debate inclusion was also the topic of Ralph Nader, an unaffiliated candidate for president, during his Wednesday appearance in Morgantown. The Associated Press and MetroNews have coverage.

• MetroNews also reports on a visit to Charleston by the " Bush Legacy Tour," a 45-foot bus that seeks to chronicle "what Americans United for Change call the president's failed policies and misdeeds." Bush supporters picketed outside the bus, MetroNews said. The Gazette has photos.

• Democratic congressional candidate Anne Barth is questioning the pacing and details of the proposed Wall Street bailout legislation now on Capitol Hill, the Charleston Daily Mail reports.

• Public Broadcasting interview U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall, D-3rd, as he seeks re-election. With audio.

• U.S. Sen Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., "is applauding the Senate for passing a measure that extends the alternative fuels credit another three years," The Register-Herald of Beckley reports.