Yahoo! News: Elections

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• O'Donnell TV appearances began with chance meeting (AP)
• Clip: Meat made O'Donnell avoid being Hare Krishna (AP)
• Brazil's Rousseff may just avoid runoff: polls (Reuters)
• GOP's Whitman blames opponent for housekeeper flap (AP)
• Dems, GOP recalibrate strategy a month to election (AP)
• Quotes from Whitman, Brown on housekeeper flap (AP)
• Fla. Gov. Crist hurt by hits from left, right (AP)
• National Dems bash McMahon in Conn. Senate race ad (AP)
• 2010 Illinois 10th District House race: Dan Seals vs. Robert Dold (The Newsroom)
• McCain to NH vets: Won't run for president again (AP)
• 2010 Maryland governor's race: rematch of governor vs. ex-governor (The Newsroom)
• DC rally shows support for struggling Democrats (AP)
• Kyrgyzstan tense as parliamentary vote nears: OSCE (Reuters)
• Obama to spend weekend at Camp David (AP)
• Envoy urges Bosnians to vote issues, not ethnicity (AFP)

O'Donnell TV appearances began with chance meeting (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - Ever since Christine O'Donnell as a college student had a chance meeting with a television producer at the 1992 Republican national convention, she has never been too far from the cameras.

Clip: Meat made O'Donnell avoid being Hare Krishna (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell once told a TV interviewer that she tried several religions but skipped becoming a Hare Krishna because she didn't want to be vegetarian.

Brazil's Rousseff may just avoid runoff: polls (Reuters) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT Reuters - Brazil's ruling party candidate, Dilma Rousseff, may just avoid being forced into a runoff vote in Sunday's presidential election, two opinion polls released on Saturday showed.

GOP's Whitman blames opponent for housekeeper flap (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman accused Democratic rival Jerry Brown on Saturday of orchestrating a scandal over her former illegal immigrant housekeeper, a charge that prompted Brown to fire back and say Whitman won't take responsibility and is not fit to be governor.

Dems, GOP recalibrate strategy a month to election (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 03:11 PM PDT AP - Democrats have all but written off at least three Senate seats — in North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas — and at least six House seats in Tennessee, Louisiana, New York and elsewhere as they embark on a final-weeks advertising push to minimize congressional election losses.

Quotes from Whitman, Brown on housekeeper flap (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT AP - Much of Saturday's gubernatorial debate between Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown centered on this week's controversy over Whitman's acknowledgment that she had an illegal immigrant housekeeper on the payroll for nine years and, according to her, didn't know it. She said she fired the housekeeper in June 2009 immediately after being told she was in the country illegally.

Fla. Gov. Crist hurt by hits from left, right (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - Gov. Charlie Crist, the independent candidate for Senate, says he loves Democrats and Republicans. But they aren't loving him back.

National Dems bash McMahon in Conn. Senate race ad (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 02:10 PM PDT AP - National Democrats have begun airing a TV ad attacking the business record of the Republican candidate for Connecticut's U.S. Senate seat, accusing former professional wrestling executive Linda McMahon of being "a bad CEO."

2010 Illinois 10th District House race: Dan Seals vs. Robert Dold (The Newsroom) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 12:15 PM PDT The Newsroom - Illinois's 10th Congressional District came up for grabs this year when incumbent Rep. Mark Steven Kirk decided to pursue the Republican nomination for President Obama's former Senate seat, rather than seek re-election to his seat in the House. Democrat Dan Seals has a chance to break the Republican party's streak in the district and win this seat on his third attempt to join the House. Republican Robert Dold is giving him a run for his money, however, and the seat remains essentially a toss-up.

McCain to NH vets: Won't run for president again (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 11:50 AM PDT AP - If John McCain hadn't made it clear before, he's leaving no doubt that the presidency is a dream gone by.

2010 Maryland governor's race: rematch of governor vs. ex-governor (The Newsroom) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 11:31 AM PDT The Newsroom - In 1986, O'Malley served as field director for Sen. Barbara Mikulski, becoming a legislative fellow in her office after her election. During college, O'Malley worked on Gary Hart's presidential campaign.

DC rally shows support for struggling Democrats (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 02:49 PM PDT AP - Tapping into anger as the tea party movement has done, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched by the thousands Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.

Kyrgyzstan tense as parliamentary vote nears: OSCE (Reuters) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 07:24 AM PDT Reuters - Kyrgyzstan is highly volatile after June's ethnic clashes and there are widespread fears an election next weekend could trigger new violence, Europe's leading vote monitoring group has said.

Obama to spend weekend at Camp David (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 01:32 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will travel to Camp David on Saturday morning.

Envoy urges Bosnians to vote issues, not ethnicity (AFP) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 06:27 PM PDT AFP - Bosnians should cast their votes based on economic and social interests, the top international envoy urged as the ethnically divided Balkans country headed into an election this weekend.

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