2010年9月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Elections


AP Interview: Kirk touts honesty, stays cautious (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:51 PM PDT

Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk speaks during an interview on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 in Chicago. Kirk is running against Democrat Alexi Giannoulias for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - While insisting Illinois voters deserve "more honesty" from politicians, Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk repeatedly ducked questions or fell back on stock answers Tuesday when pressed about his military record, attacks on his opponent and other issues in one of the nation's most-watched Senate races.


New tea party: energy, money and detente with GOP (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:29 PM PDT

Audience members record video as Tea Party Patriots National founders and coordinators Mark Meckler, left, and Jenny Beth Martin take part in a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010,  to announce that the organization received a major donation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Tea party activists and the Republican establishment are quickly joining forces for the fall elections as fresh cash and energy flow to the upstarts.


Mass. Sen. Brown to headline Pa. Senate fundraiser (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:57 PM PDT

AP - Freshman U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts will headline a Philadelphia fundraiser for Pennsylvania's Republican candidate for Senate, Pat Toomey.

GOP congressional hopeful: Palin an 'entertainer' (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:54 PM PDT

AP - The Republican running for the only open congressional seat in Massachusetts says former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is "an entertainer" and he would decline any offer from her to campaign on his behalf.

Miller acknowledges getting farm subsidies (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:47 PM PDT

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska announces her write-in campaign Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska.  ( AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)AP - Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, who believes the federal government is on the brink of bankruptcy and has called for an end to the "welfare state," received federal farm subsidies for land that the fiscal conservative owned in Kansas in the 1990s.


White House adviser Summers stepping down (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:24 PM PDT

Senior White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers speaks during an interview with Reuters in Washington, June 24, 2010. REUTERS/Molly RileyReuters - Brilliant but blunt-spoken White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Tuesday he will leave his job, marking a major staff shake-up for President Barack Obama as he faces growing pressure to revive the sluggish economy.


Jackson Jr. denies report about Blagojevich funds (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2006 file picture, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., speaks at a news conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. denied allegations Tuesday that he directed a businessman to offer former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in exchange for being appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.


Veterans criticize Whitman for poor voting record (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:50 PM PDT

California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman appears at a women's Town Hall meeting organized by her campaign in Anaheim, Calif. Thursday, Sept 16, 2010. Whitman is clearly 'all in' in her quest to become governor of California. The GOP nominee this week shattered the previous personal spending record for an American candidate, boosting the total contributions from own fortune to $119 million. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A small group of union-backed veterans is asking GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman to explain why she failed to vote for most of her adult life.


Michelle Obama ready to hit campaign trail again (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:39 PM PDT

US First Lady Michelle Obama attends a ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC. Michelle Obama will be playing an active role on the campaign trail ahead of November midterm elections, making a six-state swing to support Democratic candidates, her office said Tuesday.(AFP/Tim Sloan)AFP - US First Lady Michelle Obama will be playing an active role on the campaign trail ahead of November midterm elections, making a six-state swing to support Democratic candidates, her office said Tuesday.


Obama's aunt says US obligated to make her citizen (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in her home in Boston.  In her first interview since being granted asylum, Onyango said the the United States has an 'obligation' to grant her citizenship. 'If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,' Zeituni Onyango told WBZ-TV in an interview that first aired Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston before being granted asylum in May, said the United States has an "obligation" to grant her citizenship.


Democrats hold financial advantage ahead of midterms (The Upshot)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:07 PM PDT

The Upshot - With just six weeks to go until Election Day, Democrats face an uphill battle to defend their majority control of Congress, but the party does have at least one thing going for them in the final stretch of the campaign: They have more cash to spend than Republicans. According to reports filed with the Federal [...]

Years later, bravery on a Laos mountain is honored (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:57 PM PDT

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor posthumously to the sons of Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, from right, Richard Etchberger, Corey Etchberger, and step son Steve Wilson , Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Etchberger received the honor for his heroic actions in combat in Laos on March 11, 1968, after deliberately exposing himself to enemy fire in order to put his wounded comrades in rescue slings permitting them to be airlifted to safety. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - For decades, Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. "Dick" Etchberger's courage under fire was kept as secret as the mission that placed him on a remote Laotian mountain, high above the clouds, in March 1968.


Republican's financial woes recast Ga. race (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2010 file photo, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former Governor Roy Barnes speaks during a forum in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton, File)AP - In a Republican-leaning state in what's shaping up as a Republican year, Nathan Deal was seen as a pretty sure bet to become Georgia's next governor.


Pro bono lawmaking: Candidates offer to work free (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:25 PM PDT

AP - Some lawmakers want to change state law to bar themselves from getting paid for working extra days when they can't pass the state budget on time.

Ark. GOP files ethics complaint against Lincoln (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:23 PM PDT

AP - The Arkansas Republican Party has filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Blanche Lincoln, saying the Democrat improperly used taxpayer funds to mail a newsletter about her re-election bid.

Momentum grows for tackling U.S. deficit (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:18 PM PDT

Case worker Jessica Yon discusses job eligibility for unemployed people at a jobs center in San Francisco, California in this February 4, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/FilesReuters - Broad public concern about the U.S. budget deficit and big election gains for Republicans on November 2 could boost prospects for agreement on ways to slash spending, speakers told the Reuters Washington Summit.


Wyclef Jean drops presidential bid in Haiti (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:07 PM PDT

Reuters - Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean said on Tuesday he was abandoning his attempt to run in Haiti's November presidential election, one month after his candidacy was formally rejected by Haitian authorities.

APNewsBreak: Mass. AG candidate skirts finance law (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:03 PM PDT

This July 29, 2010 photos shows James Mckenna, of Millbury, Mass., speaking at the Worcester Republican Committee's candidates' night in Worcester, Mass. The state's top election official said Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, that McKenna has obtained nearly three times the signatures needed to mount a surprise write-in challenge to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who lost a U.S. Senate race to Scott Brown earlier this year. (AP Photo/Telegram & Gazette, Jim Collins)AP - The upstart former prosecutor who shocked even the Massachusetts Republican Party by winning a write-in bid to be his party's nominee for attorney general did so, in part, with a race that skirted state campaign finance laws.


Democrats dismiss Republicans' new 'Contract with America' (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:01 PM PDT

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, pictured in July 2010, dismissed the Republicans' upcoming political plan roll-out as offering nothing new to struggling American families. AFP - US Democrats on Tuesday said Republicans would offer "more of the same" when they unveil the legislative agenda they aim to follow should conservatives seize control of Congress after November elections.


Cuomo undecided on debating NY GOP gov opponent (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:37 PM PDT

AP - Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday he still hasn't decided if he will debate tea party Republican Carl Paladino, who issued the challenge a week ago.

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