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Yahoo! News: Elections


Who is the Ask America “video ninja”? Everyone has a story (Y! News - Ask America)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 02:08 PM PDT

Mike Byhoff stands in front of the Ask America van.Y! News - Ask America - The Yahoo! News Ask America "video ninja" Mike Byhoff is traveling the country getting to know voters this election season, but who is the man behind the camera? Byhoff, 27, spent the first part of his life experiencing America from …


Clinton stumps for Blumenthal in Conn. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 01:38 PM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton, right, campaigns for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal, left, in New Haven, Conn., on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010.  (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Former President Bill Clinton has urged Democrats in Connecticut to support U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal and persuade their neighbors not to give in to their anger toward the economy and incumbents.


Barbara Boxer, Jerry Brown lead in new California poll (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 01:30 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - California Democrats are taking heart from a new poll showing Jerry Brown leading Meg Whitman in the race for governor while Barbara Boxer is ahead of Carly Fiorina in the US Senate race. But with more than a month to go before the election and 10 percent of likely voters still undecided, both races â€" especially the Brown-Whitman contest â€" remain close.

Chavez likely to retain parliament in Venezuela vote (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 01:06 PM PDT

A man hangs clothes to dry on the roof of his building next to a billboard for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's campaign in Caracas September 24, 2010. REUTERS/Jorge SilvaReuters - Venezuelans voted for a new parliament on Sunday with President Hugo Chavez expected to keep control of the National Assembly in a poll that tests his support ahead of the next presidential election in 2012.


Obama adviser slams Republican pledge as a rehash (AFP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:29 PM PDT

Obama administration's senior adviser David Axelrod (C), pictured in 2009, has criticised Republican plans to cut taxes for wealthier Americans as a recycled failed policy.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - The White House Sunday slammed Republican plans to cut taxes for wealthy Americans as a recycled failed policy, while sparring lawmakers vowed a vote on the hot-button issue before the tax cuts expire in December.


Vulnerable House Dems declare their independence (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2008 file photo, then-Nevada House candidate Dina Titus addresses supporters in Henderson, Nev.  Titus has been a loyal soldier in pushing the Democrats' ambitious agenda, voting for health care legislation, extended unemployment benefits, new energy taxes and a repeal of the military's ban on gays serving openly. Her campaign signs for the Nov. 2 election, however, proclaim her to be an 'independent voice' for Nevadans. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - Rep. Dina Titus has been a loyal soldier in pushing the Democrats' ambitious agenda, voting for health care legislation, extended unemployment benefits, new energy taxes and a repeal of the military's ban on gays serving openly.


White House, Dems see tax cut vote after election (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 08:48 AM PDT

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., gestures during a news conference,on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in support of the small business lending to struggling small businesses with easier credit and other incentives to expand and hire new workers. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The White House and Democratic leaders in Congress said Sunday said they expect to have enough support to extend middle-class tax cuts after the November elections, unable to secure GOP backing before lawmakers break to campaign.


Weekly Standard: Thune likely to run for president in 2012 (The Upshot)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 08:43 AM PDT

The Upshot - Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota "is likely to run for president in 2012," according to Stephen F. Hayes' cover story in the upcoming issue of The Weekly Standard. Hayes writes that Thune has "gamed out a 'pathway to get there,' calculated the amount of money it would take to be competitive in early [...]

Family factor as Emanuel mulls Chicago mayor run (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 06:48 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's top political adviser says White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is really drawn to the idea of running for Chicago mayor.

Poll: Democrats Brown, Boxer hold narrow leads (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 09:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2010 file photo, United States Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., right, greets union members at a Labor Day Breakfast at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles  (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File)AP - A new poll shows Democrats Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer slightly ahead in their races for California governor and U.S. Senate just five weeks before Election Day.


Calif. inmate asks federal court to halt execution (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 04:30 PM PDT

In this June 2007 photo released by the California Department of Corrections is condemned inmate Albert Greenwood Brown. Brown is scheduled to die at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., on Sept. 29 for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside County girl abducted on her way home from school in 1980. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)AP - A death row inmate on Sunday asked a federal appeals court to halt his execution as he declined to choose a method for the lethal injection.


Republican econ proposals "disastrous" says Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 08:05 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama waves at reporters as he returns to the White House after an excursion to play basketball with his daughters in Washington September 26, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)Reuters - President Barack Obama hammered Republicans on Saturday over their newly unveiled campaign agenda, calling the opposition party's economic ideas "an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive."


Obama dismisses GOP 'Pledge' as echo of disaster (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 08:03 PM PDT

President Barack Obama waves as he arrives on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Barack Obama says Republicans' plan to slash taxes and cut spending if the GOP retakes the House in November is no more than "an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive."


Money, economy hobble Democrat in Ind. Senate race (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:37 PM PDT

Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind, right, speaks as he campaigns for Democratic candidate for Indiana's U.S. Senate seat Brad Ellsworth at a news conference in Indianapolis, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Ellsworth hopes to defeat Republican Dan Coats in the race to replace Bayh. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Democrat Brad Ellsworth had just leveled an attack — one he acknowledged was incomplete at best — against his Republican rival for the open Senate seat in Indiana when he asked reporters what they wanted to know.


Alaska Dem rival: Murkowski campaign a lost cause (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2010, file photo Alaska's Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, left, shows off a T-shirt worn by one of her supporters, Alex Grundmann, at a rally at the Senator's new  campaign headquarters in Juneau, Alaska. 24, 2010. Murkowski, who lost the Alaska GOP nomination to tea party favorite Joe Miller, launched a write-in campaign to try to keep the seat she has held since 2002. Political insiders say the effort probably will fail, but it's hard to predict whether Murkowski would pull more votes from Miller or from Democrat Scott McAdams. (AP Photo/Chris Miller, File)AP - The little-known Democrat in Alaska's Senate race is labeling Sen. Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign as a lost cause.


Third-party candidates could tip close elections (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 07:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2010, file photo Alaska's Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, left, shows off a T-shirt worn by one of her supporters, Alex Grundmann, at a rally at the Senator's new  campaign headquarters in Juneau, Alaska. 24, 2010. Murkowski, who lost the Alaska GOP nomination to tea party favorite Joe Miller, launched a write-in campaign to try to keep the seat she has held since 2002. Political insiders say the effort probably will fail, but it's hard to predict whether Murkowski would pull more votes from Miller or from Democrat Scott McAdams. (AP Photo/Chris Miller, File)AP - Whether they are sore losers or never-say-die patriots, third-party candidates threaten to tip a handful of congressional and gubernatorial races to contenders who otherwise might have lost this fall.


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