SENATE TRIES "CHRISTMAS TREE" VERSION OF BAILOUT BILL; KEY SWING STATES SHIFTING TO OBAMA; MS, TX SENATE RACES TIGHTEN.

WALL STREET BAILOUT. Barack Obama, John McCain and Joe Biden all returned to the Senate on Wednesday afternoon to cast votes in support of the Senate's version of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan. Actually, the price tag will be considerably higher if the Senate version is signed into law as a bipartisan coalition of Senators loaded up the bill with a variety of pork funding projects in an attempt to by support of House opponents. The House plans to hold another vote on Friday, but passage remains uncertain. FYI: Billionaire financier George Soros is creatively suggesting an entirely different recovery plan for Congress to consider.

P2008 - DAILY POLLING UPDATE. Here is our daily update of the latest independent state polls on the Presidential race:
FLORIDA (CNN/Time): Obama - 51%, McCain - 47%.
FLORIDA (Insider Advantage): Obama - 49%, McCain - 46%, Others - 1%.
FLORIDA (Quinnipiac Univ.): Obama - 51%, McCain - 43%, Others - 1%.
FLORIDA (Suffolk Univ.): Obama - 46%, McCain - 42%, Barr - 2%, McKinney - 1%, Nader - 1%.
INDIANA (Research 2000): McCain - 46%, Obama - 45%.
IOWA (Research 2000): Obama - 55%, McCain - 39%.
MINNESOTA (CNN/Time): Obama - 54%, McCain - 43%.
MISSISSIPPI (Rasmussen): McCain - 52%, Obama - 44%.
MISSOURI (CNN/Time): Obama - 49%, McCain - 48%.
NEVADA (Insider Advantage): Obama - 48%, McCain - 47%, Others - 1%.
NEVADA (CNN/Time): Obama - 51%, McCain - 47%.
NEW JERSEY (SurveyUSA): Obama - 52%, McCain - 42%, Others - 3%.
OHIO (SurveyUSA): McCain - 49%, Obama - 48%, Others - 1%.
OHIO (Quinnipiac Univ.): Obama - 50%, McCain - 42%, Others - 1%.
OKLAHOMA (SurveyUSA): McCain - 64%, Obama - 34%, Others - 1%.
PENNSYLVANIA (Franklin & Marshall College): Obama - 45%, McCain - 38%, Others - 2%.
PENNSYLVANIA (Quinnipiac Univ.): Obama - 54%, McCain - 39%, Others - 1%.
PENNSYLVANIA (Muhlenberg College): Obama - 48%, McCain - 41%, Others - 3%.
TENNESSEE (Rasmussen): McCain - 58%, Obama - 39%.
TEXAS (Rasmussen): McCain - 52%, Obama - 43%.
VIRGINIA (CNN/Time): Obama - 53%, McCain - 44%.
WISCONSIN (Strategic Vision-R): Obama - 49%, McCain - 40%, Others - 2%.

US SENATE. The latest independent polls for the US Senate match-ups:
MISSISSIPPI (Rasmussen): US Senator Roger Wicker (R) - 49%, former Governor Ronnie Musgrove (D) - 47%.
OKLAHOMA (SurveyUSA): US Senator Jim Inhofe (R) - 53%, State Senator Andrew Rice (D) - 37%, businessman Stephen Wallace (I) - 7%.
TENNESSEE (Rasmussen): US Senator Lamar Alexander (R) - 56%, former State Democratic Chair Bob Tuke (D) - 32%.
TEXAS (Rasmussen): US Senator John Cornyn (R) - 50%, State Representative Rick Noriega (D) - 43%.

GOVERNOR. The new independent polls for the gubernatorial contests:
INDIANA (Research 2000): Governor Mitch Daniels (R) - 47%, former Congresswoman Jill Long Thompson (D) - 46%.

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