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The first homecoming game was played against Missouri in 1912. KU won the game 12-3 and started a short-lived tradition of playing MU for homecoming each year.
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What's the weather, Jay?
Wednesday
Source: Weather.com
Partly cloudy with a 10% chance of rain. S winds at 22 mph.
Partly cloudy with a 10% chance of rain N winds at 23 mph.
HI: 83
LO: 56
HI: 49
LO: 29
2000 Dole Human Development Center 1000 Sunnyside Avenue Lawrence, Kan.
Thursday
Friday
A great day for homecoming activities.
Isolated thunderstorms, 30% chance of rain. WNW winds at 23 mph.
HI: 60
LO: 33
66045
Break out those rain boots.
Jay wonders where fall went.
Tuesday, October 23
WHAT: Sleigh Bells with Araab Muzik
WHERE: The Granada
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: The Brooklyn-based duo comes to Lawrence for an SUA sponsored show.
CALENDAR
WHAT: GasLand
WHERE: Spooner Hall, The Commons
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Check out this film about the controversial circumstances surrounding fracking for free.
**WHAT:** National Day Without Stigma
**WHERE:** Stauffer-Flint
**WHEN:** 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
**ABOUT:** This tabling event aims to help eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness.
WHAT: National Day Without Stigma
Wednesday, October 24
HOME: homecoming Comedy Show: Vanessa Bayer
WHERE: Budig 120
WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT: Nick Vatterot opens for the SNL star best known for playing Miley Cyrus and Hillary Clinton.
WHAT: Artisan Crafts
ABOUT. Take advantage of the last of the October crafting sessions. Past activities include henna tattoos and calligraphy lessons.
Thursday, October 25
WHEN: 2 to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Kansas Union, 4th floor
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHERE: Kansas Union, 4th floor
WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Free tea never gets old.
WHAT: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
WHEF E: Murphy Hall, William Inge Memorial Theatre
WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT. This award-winning parody of Charles Schutz's "Peanuts" comic strips offers a darker imagining of familiar characters.
Friday, October 26
CAMPAIGN
**WHAT:** KU School of Music Symphony Orchestra
Halloween Concert
**WHERE:** Lied Center
**WHEN:** 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Get in the Halloween spirit with some
spooky tunes.
WHAT: Final Fridays. El Dia de los Muertas
WHERE: Lawrence Percolator
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Celebrate the Mexican holiday and pay homage to lost friends and family members
Swing counties may replace swing states
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEESBURG, Va. — How Virginia goes in the presidential election may come down to voters who live amid the small wineries, affluent subdivisions and Civil War battlegrounds of Loudoun County.
Voters in the tony Hamilton County suburbs around the humming riverside economic engine of Cincinnati may tip the balance in Ohio.
To win Florida, either President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney probably will have carried Hillsborough County, where the urban seaport town of Tampa bleeds into communities of Spanish-speaking voters and retired Midwesterners.
President Barack Obama arrives to speak at a campaign event at Eden Park's Seasongood Pavilion in Cincinnati, Ohio. The presidential race may come down to an narrower slice than simply the nine states where both Obama and Romney are aggressively competing: Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
Those areas are vastly different, yet each is full of fickle voters and bound by a proclivity to swing between Republican and Democrat every four years. All are main targets as the president and
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his Republican challenger look for enough victories in enough states to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to
George W. Bush won in 2004 and that voted Democrat Obama in 2008, according to an Associated Press analysis.
The AP reviewed the vote returns in those nine states during the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections to identify the counties that have swung between the parties and were most likely to do it again on Nov. 6.
These counties are home to people such as Matt Blunt, a 42-year-old IT manager from Sterling, Va., in Loudoun County, outside Washington. Blunt voted for Obama in 2008, hoping he could change Washington's bitter tone, but now backs Romney.
"What I see in Romney is the stronger potential for leadership than we've seen in the past four years". Blunt said, adding that Obama "hasn't lived up to the promise."
In these counties more than anywhere else, voters' phones ring
capture the White House.
mney is the strom leadership than past four years".
The race may come down to an even narrower slice of the electorate than the nine most contested states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. The outcome probably will depend on what happens in the 106 counties that Republican
MATT BLUNT IT Manager
every night with automated telephone surveys. Every day, glossy mailers hit their mailboxes. Televisions crackle day and night with campaign ads.
In fact, voters in the Cincinnati, Tampa and northern Virginia TV markets have been subjected to presidential campaign advertising totaling $127 million, almost one-fifth the total spent nationwide this year.
"There's more — and more concentrated — contact with voters in these counties that swung back and forth in these states than
anybody," said Charlie Black, a veteran Republican presidential campaign strategist and informal Romney adviser.
In a race where any bit of an advantage could make the difference, the campaigns go to all this trouble to sway a tiny fraction of the electorate. In 2008, there were 6.2 million votes from those 106 counties; that was not even 5 percent of the roughly 137 million who voted for president.
There is no single reason to explain why these counties seem to shift with the political wind. Their voters are far from monolithic, having little in common other than their voting patterns.
POLICE REPORTS
Information based off the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap and KU Office of Public Safety crime reports.
- A 27-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday on the 2000 block of Bluffs Drive on suspicion of driving while intoxicated third offense, driving while suspended, no driver's license, obstructing the legal process and no vehicle registration. Bond was not set.
- A 44-year-old transient man was arrested Sunday at 7:24 p.m.
on the 900 block of Iowa Street on suspicion of domestic battery, third offense, violating a protective order and criminal damage to property greater than $1,000. Bond was not set.
- A 29-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 3:57 p.m. on the 2400 block of Ousdahl Road on suspicion of interfering with wints of an officer and failing to appear in municipal court. Bond was set at $1,547. He was released.
- A 19-year-old Manhattan man was arrested Sunday at 7:01 a.m. on the 1200 block of Tennessee Street on suspicion of criminal trespassing. Bond was set at $100. He was released.