2008年10月6日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Old events fuel new presidential campaign attacks (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 02:53 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks during the U.S. vice presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 2, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)AP - The gloves are off, the heels are on, and the presidential race is dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.


Analysis: Palin's words may backfire on McCain (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 11:55 PM CDT

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a campaign rally in the Los Angeles. Barack Obama's White House campaign has hammered Republican John McCain for wanting to AP - And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.


Campaigns woo new Hispanic citizens as key bloc (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 03:18 AM CDT

New United States citizens Jenette Chavez, 18, left, and Josue Cano, 20, fill out forms as they register to vote at the Lloyd D. George federal courthouse in Las Vegas on Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Supporters of Barack Obama and John McCain are fighting for every voter this campaign, and naturalized citizens of Hispanic descent are a growing target.  (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - On a muggy afternoon, more than 3,000 immigrants, most of them Hispanic, wave flags, cheer and weep as they swear to protect and defend the United States of America as its newest citizens.


7 Palin aides to testify in abuse-of-power probe (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 07:53 PM CDT

Republican vice presidential cadidate Sarah Palin speaks during a campaign rally at the Home Depot Center in Carson on October 4. Palin's attack on Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama as someone who would AP - Seven aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have reversed course and agreed to testify in an investigation into whether the Republican vice presidential nominee abused her powers by firing a commissioner who refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law.


30 days out, McCain still taking weekends off (Politico)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 07:11 PM CDT

Politico - SEDONA, Ariz.— Just a month out from election day, neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has undertaken the sort of grinding public schedule that until now had been the standard for the homestretch of a presidential campaign — and the Republican's routine has been especially lax.

Palin defends terrorist comment against Obama (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 08:25 PM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaks during a rally, in Omaha, Neb., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Sarah Palin defended her claim that Barack Obama "pals around with terrorists," saying the Democratic presidential nominee's association with a 1960s radical is an issue that is "fair to talk about."


GOP to file fundraising complaint against Obama (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 08:35 PM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., holds a baby as he shakes hands at a rally at Memorial Stadium at Asheville High School in Asheville, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The Republican National Committee plans to file a fundraising complaint against Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign Monday, alleging it has accepted donations that exceed federal limits as well as illegal contributions from foreigners.


Biden cancels events after mother-in-law's death (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 04:48 PM CDT

Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) takes part in the vice presidential debate with Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri October 2, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)AP - Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden has canceled his campaign appearances Monday and Tuesday after the death of his mother-in-law Sunday.


Bruce Springsteen rocks for Obama at Ohio State (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 06:57 PM CDT

Bruce Springsteen performs during a rally Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, on the campus of Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio.  Springsteen was in town to encourage Barack Obama supporters to register and take advantage of Ohio's early voting period. (AP Photo/Terry Gilliam)AP - For the second day in a row, rock star Bruce Springsteen sang a few songs and urged thousands of potential voters in a battleground state to register and support Democrat Barack Obama.


Obama ad links McCain to Keating scandal (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 10:36 PM CDT

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in Asheville, North Carolina. Republican John McCain's White House campaign is unleashing its promised avalanche of vitriol a month away from election day.(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Halleran)AP - Democrat Barack Obama, reacting to Republican charges about his links to a 1960s radical, fired back late Sunday with a Web video about John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal from the early 1990s.


Obama's role in Ill. ethics bill was complicated (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 03:51 AM CDT

In this Nov., 8, 2004 file photo, then Senator-elect Barack Obama  right, and Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, D-Chicago, left, share a moment together before lawmakers gave Obama a standing ovation in the Illinois Senate as he said goodbye to his former colleagues at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.  Obama likes to give himself star billing for his role in enacting ethics reforms in the Illinois Legislature a decade ago. But he did not act alone. He was part of an ensemble that negotiated and built support for the measure, which include allowed lawmakers already in office to keep using accumulated campaign money for anything they wanted, from Cadillacs to college tuition.   (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - Barack Obama likes to give himself star billing for his role in enacting ethics reforms in Illinois a decade ago, but he didn't act alone.


Obama accuses McCain of smear campaign (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 03:16 AM CDT

Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, October 5, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy.


Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 02:04 AM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a campaign rally Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, in Asheville, N.C (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek).AP - Obama ad links McCain to Keating scandal as presidential campaigns step up personal attacks ... GOP to file fundraising complaint against Obama, asking for audit of campaign funds ... Bruce Springsteen slams Bush, Cheney, praises Obama at Ohio State voter registration event ...


White House contenders go nuclear a month from election day (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 12:17 AM CDT

Republican presidential nominee John McCain in Denver. McCain's White House campaign is unleashing its promised avalanche of vitriol a month away from election day.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - Democrat Barack Obama, responding to his portrayal by John McCain's campaign as a crony of "terrorists," fought fire with fire Monday by highlighting the Republican's embroilment in a devastating 1980s financial scandal.


In financial firestorm, lobbyists are in demand (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 10:37 PM CDT

The U.S. Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 27. Barack Obama and John McCain have both declared war on lobbyists, but with tighter regulation of the financial sector ahead, the dark arts of the profession are in demand, experts have said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - Barack Obama and John McCain both have declared war on lobbyists, but with tighter regulation of the financial sector ahead, the dark arts of the profession are in demand, experts say.


Exclusive: Obama to hit McCain on Keating Five (Politico)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 10:09 PM CDT

Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (L) and Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama are shown in this combination photograph from images taken during the first U.S. presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi September 26, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/FilesPolitico - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer.


Minnesota Senate debate showcases race's intensity (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 09:42 PM CDT

AP - Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken exchanged barbs in their first Senate debate Sunday night over the ailing economy and the war in Iraq, while a third-party challenger seat kept both on their toes.

Fierce battles seen for US Congress (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 06:06 PM CDT

A flag waves at the US Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Although all eyes are on the White House race, hundreds of other elections will be taking place around the country on November 4 as US lawmakers battle to hang onto their seats in the Congress.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - Although all eyes are on the White House race, hundreds of other elections will be taking place around the country on November 4 as US lawmakers battle to hang onto their seats in the Congress.


McCain rolls the dice to stop election slipping away (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 06:04 PM CDT

Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain, speaks on the passage of the financial bailout bill October 3, upon arrival in Flagstaff, Arizona. With a month to go before the US election, John McCain is going for broke with an all-out offensive to portray his White House rival Barack Obama as a wild liberal who is friends with AFP - With a month to go before the US election, John McCain is going for broke with an all-out offensive to portray his White House rival Barack Obama as a wild liberal who is friends with "terrorists."


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