Election 2008: Monday Roundup

• The Associated Press details the pre-general finance reports from West Virginia's congressional candidates. Highlights include Democrat Anne Barth outraising Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-2nd, during the filing period, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller collecting a total of $6.7 million toward his re-election bid.

• AP also talks to Democrat Natalie Tennant and Republican Charles Minimah about their race for secretary of state.

• The Charleston Gazette relays additional complaints alleging electronic voting machines have switched early votes from Democratic to Republican candidates. The Gazette also reported earlier on the machines' manufacturer, Election Systems & Software.

• The Journal of Martinsburg offers separate coverage of Republican and Democratic rallies in the Eastern Panhandle. The latter featured former Govs. Bob Wise and Gaston Caperton, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Barth. The GOP event featured a prediction by the Berkeley County part chairman that "in the not too distant future, Republicans will hold all of the major offices, including governor, senators and house members."

• The Gazette reports on a weekend pro-Obama rally in Charleston.

• AP sets the stage for a Monday rally in support of Capito at Madison Coal & Supply in Charleston.

• GOP gubernatorial candidate Russ Weeks responds to The Register-Herald of Beckley after polling shows him well behind incumbent Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin.

• The Gazette reports on negative ad salvos between Sen. Clark Barnes, R-Randolph, and the Democrat seeking a rematch after his 2004 defeat, Mike Ross.
  

• The Bluefield Daily Telegraph talks to a Mercer County school bus driver whom friends say resembles Sarah Palin.