Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama seeks to shore up support for Wis. Democrats (AP)
• Outside Groups' Campaign Expenditures Have Doubled (CQPolitics.com)
• Sen. Byrd's family denounces campaign attack ad (AP)
• Obama Unpopular Ahead of Midterms: Will the GOP Benefit? (Time.com)
• Taliban vow to disrupt Afghanistan election (Reuters)
• Obama to propose permanent research tax credit (Reuters)
• Election 2010: How bad is it for Democrats? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Venice: Deneuve hits the Lido to promote 'Potiche' (AP)
• Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains (AP)
• Senate candidate Marco Rubio's father dies at 83 (AP)
• Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions (AP)
• Taliban vow to disrupt Afghan parliamentary poll (Reuters)
• Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes (AP)
• Nevada GOP candidate faces copyright lawsuit (AP)
• Obama says his economic policies halted "bleeding" (Reuters)

Obama seeks to shore up support for Wis. Democrats (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:48 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama hopes to improve the fortunes of suddenly imperiled Wisconsin Democrats as he celebrates Labor Day with the state's union workers on Monday.

Outside Groups' Campaign Expenditures Have Doubled (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:09 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - Outside organizations have shelled out twice as much on ads and other electioneering activities to affect Congressional races so far during the 2010 election cycle as they did two years ago.

Sen. Byrd's family denounces campaign attack ad (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:41 PM PDT AP - The family of the late Robert C. Byrd blasted the GOP nominee for his U.S. Senate seat Sunday after he used an image from Byrd's memorial service in a TV ad attacking the Democratic nominee.

Obama Unpopular Ahead of Midterms: Will the GOP Benefit? (Time.com) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:20 PM PDT Time.com - Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?

Taliban vow to disrupt Afghanistan election (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:34 PM PDT Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban said on Sunday they would attempt to disrupt elections this month and warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat against the poll by the hardline Islamists.

Obama to propose permanent research tax credit (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:31 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama will ask the Congress on Wednesday to increase and permanently extend a tax credit for business research as a way of boosting job growth, an administration officials said on Sunday.

Election 2010: How bad is it for Democrats? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:39 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - A consensus is building that Democrats’ chances of holding on to both houses of Congress â€" certainly with anything like the majorities they have today â€" are fast fading.

Venice: Deneuve hits the Lido to promote 'Potiche' (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 09:00 AM PDT AP - French director Francois Ozon's says he was inspired to go ahead with his latest film, a battle-of-the-sexes comedy, after the presidential election pitting Nicolas Sarkozy against Segolene Royale.

Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 06:56 AM PDT AP - In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It's the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate.

Senate candidate Marco Rubio's father dies at 83 (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 06:43 AM PDT AP - The father of Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio has died after a long illness. He was 83.

Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 06:02 AM PDT AP - John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head.

Taliban vow to disrupt Afghan parliamentary poll (Reuters) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 04:08 AM PDT Reuters - Afghanistan's Taliban said on Sunday they would attempt to derail elections this month and warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat against the poll by the hardline Islamists.

Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes (AP) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:39 AM PDT AP - Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot of people who have lost jobs — or know someone who has — now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections.

Nevada GOP candidate faces copyright lawsuit (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2010 08:13 PM PDT AP - A company has sued Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle, claiming she reprinted two Las Vegas Review-Journal articles on her campaign website without permission.

Obama says his economic policies halted "bleeding" (Reuters) Posted: 04 Sep 2010 07:12 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama, previewing a big push on the U.S. economy next week, on Saturday defended policies that he said "have stopped the bleeding" and put the middle class on the road to recovery.

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