2008年9月17日星期三

Yahoo! News: Elections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama still favored in Wis. but race is tighter (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 03:01 AM CDT

US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks in Golden, Colorado September 16, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - John McCain has worked himself back into a tight race with Barack Obama in Wisconsin, a state that Democrats had hoped would be a stronghold for the Illinois senator.


Alaska AG: State employees won't honor subpoenas (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 01:03 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks during a campaign rally in Golden, Colo., Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)AP - Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday when the attorney general said state employees would refuse to honor subpoenas in the case.


Obama buys 2-minute commercial on economy (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 02:12 AM CDT

US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama delivers a policy speech on the economy at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Obama and John McCain vowed to crack down on Wall Street excess Tuesday but slammed one another as unfit to fix the economy as global markets took another pounding.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AP - Barack Obama sought to put a personal stamp on his economic policies in troubled times, appearing Wednesday in a two-minute television commercial to outline his plans and caution it won't be easy to fix the nation's worsening financial problems.


McCain campaign clamps down on questions in Alaska (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 02:11 AM CDT

Republican vice-presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pauses during her speech in Golden, Colorado September 15, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)AP - GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska's governor to John McCain's political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit any embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.


Rangel safe for now, but trouble looms (Politico)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 03:44 AM CDT

Politico - Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) has persuaded House leaders to let him stay on as chairman of the powerhouse Ways and Means Committee — but he faces a new challenge from a Democratic Senate candidate who is rejecting a $10,000 Rangel contribution as tainted money.  

McCain has 2 faces: Washington in- and outsider (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 02:08 AM CDT

Republican presidential candidate Sen., John McCain, R-Ariz., and  his wife Cindy walk down the steps of his campaign plane upon arriving for a rally in Vienna, Ohio, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song.


Today on the presidential campaign trail (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 01:26 AM CDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. leaves his hotel en route to a fund raising event in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008.  (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Obama raises about $9 million in Hollywood with Barbra Streisand's help ... Economic crisis suddenly dominates presidential campaign, leaving pigs, lipstick behind ... Sarah Palin to speak to Katie Couric of CBS News


McCain, Obama trade heated jabs over the economy (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 12:58 AM CDT

Democrat Barack Obama cranked up his assault Tuesdat on John McCain after the Republican declared the US economy was AP - John McCain and Barack Obama traded increasingly barbed insults along with prescriptions for the ailing economy Tuesday as financial fears shoved aside lipstick on pigs and every other political issue in a blink with just weeks left in the long presidential campaign.


Fellow critic hits Ebert during film festival (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 10:45 PM CDT

An April 25, 2007 file photo shows Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert giving a thumbs up while making his first public appearance since undergoing cancer-related surgery at his annual Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Ill. Ebert on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 confirmed that a fellow critic yelled at him and whacked him on the knee with a program during a movie screening at the Toronto Film Festival last weekend, but said the incident was 'blown out of proportion.' (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - Film critic Roger Ebert on Thursday confirmed that a fellow critic yelled at him and whacked him on the knee with a program during a movie screening at the Toronto Film Festival last weekend, but said the incident was "blown out of proportion."


Analysis: Are economy's fundamentals actually OK? (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:57 PM CDT

Trader Luke Dalton, foreground, watches the numbers from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the end of the trading day, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2008. Wall Street ended another tumultuous session with a sizable gain Tuesday, partly recovering from its worst sell-off in years after the Federal Reserve said it was keeping interest rates steady.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Unemployment is at a five-year high. Financial firms that withstood the Great Depression are failing. Congress and a lame-duck president are gridlocked. So when John McCain declared that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," it drew ridicule from Democrat Barack Obama.


Palin imitators flood YouTube with mocking videos (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 03:58 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at a campaign rally in Anorchage, Alaska on September 13. YouTube is being flooded with mocking videos by Palin imitators, attracting millions of viewers and triggering stormy online debate between the aspiring vice president's fans and critics.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - YouTube is being flooded with mocking videos by Sarah Palin imitators, attracting millions of viewers and triggering stormy online debate between the aspiring vice president's fans and critics.


McCain raps Obama over Hollywood 'friends' (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 01:40 AM CDT

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama greets supporters after delivering a policy speech in Golden, Colorado. John McCain accused White House foe Obama of siding with 'A list' stars at a dollar-soaked Hollywood fundraiser instead of hard-hit voters trapped by the economic malaise.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - John McCain Tuesday accused White House foe Barack Obama of siding with 'A-list' stars at a dollar-soaked Hollywood fundraiser instead of with hard-hit voters trapped by the economic malaise.


McCain, Obama Seek Political Foothold With Wall Street Battered (Bloomberg)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 11:20 PM CDT

Bloomberg - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain and Barack Obama are both calling for tougher financial regulations as Wall Street faces its deepest crisis since the Depression. Yet Obama's record in this area is thin, and McCain has spent most of his quarter- century in Congress advocating deregulation.

McCain, Obama Campaign Promises Imperiled by Wall Street Rescue (Bloomberg)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 11:01 PM CDT

Bloomberg - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The casualties of continuing tumult on Wall Street will include campaign promises of the next U.S. president, whether it's John McCain or Barack Obama.

Bush's Calendar Empty as McCain, Republican Lawmakers Avoid Him (Bloomberg)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 11:01 PM CDT

Bloomberg - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- There is an invisible man in the 2008 election: the president of the United States.

John Kerry bests 1st primary opponent in 24 years (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 10:49 PM CDT

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., with help from his wife Victoria, second from right, casts his vote in the statewide Democratic primary at the town hall in Hyannis, Mass., Tuesday, Sept. 16,2008. At left is poll worker Judie Goodman. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the state's junior senator, is among those on the primary ballot as he runs for re-election. Kennedy, the state's senior senator, has been in treatment since being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor after he had a seizure in May. He had surgery and a six-week course of chemotherapy.  (AP Photo/Julia Cumes)AP - Sen. John Kerry fended off his first Democratic challenger in nearly a quarter century, handily defeating political newcomer Ed O'Reilly in Tuesday's primary.


Clinton blindsided by scheduled event with Palin (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 10:16 PM CDT

Senator Hilary Clinton (D-NY) stands at the podium during a walk-through before the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 26, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. REUTERS/Mike Segar  (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled an appearance at a New York rally next week after organizers blindsided her by inviting Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, aides to the senator said Tuesday.


Palin says she would lead energy efforts as VP (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:56 PM CDT

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is introduced to speak by Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (L) during an outdoor rally in Fairfax, Virginia, September 10, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain has outlined running mate Sarah Palin's job description if they win the White House -- and energy tops the list, just like it did for Dick Cheney in the Bush administration.


Sebelius: 'Code language' hindering Obama campaign (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:27 PM CDT

AP - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that a belief among some voters that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them is hindering his campaign for president.

Obama, McCain duel over market turmoil (Politico)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 07:50 PM CDT

Politico - GOLDEN, Colo. — The presidential nominees escalated their fight Tuesday to gain an edge in light of the economic downturn, as John McCain called for the creation of a commission to probe the financial market crisis and Barack Obama rejected the proposal as an attempt to “pass the buck.”
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