Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Biden raising money for Carnahan Senate bid in Mo. (AP)
• Angle: Muslim law taking hold in parts of US (AP)
• Obama wades into fight for his old Senate seat (Reuters)
• Tax-slashing proposals scare GOP, Democrats (AP)
• Dudley gave house for fire training, got tax break (AP)
• Post-election ethics trials set for Rangel, Waters (AP)
• New version of NBA Jam includes President Obama, other politicans (Daily Caller)
• Top Nevada GOP lawmaker endorses Reid (AP)
• GOP pulling W.Va. Senate ad with 'hicky' actors (AP)
• Franken stumps in Delaware for Chris Coons (AP)
• Trailing NY gov candidate takes to TV to make case (AP)
• Judge says SC Senate candidate can stay free (AP)
• Mass. gov. hopeful alleges GOP dirty tricks (AP)
• Obama slams torrent of cash swamping US polls (AFP)
• Judge upholds key part of Obama healthcare law (Reuters)
• Dems' Rising Star Takes Fall (The Daily Beast)
• 3 dozen treated for dehydration at Md Obama rally (AP)
• Democratic strategist Plouffe: ‘You’re looking at ideal Republican turnout’ (The Upshot)

Biden raising money for Carnahan Senate bid in Mo. (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:22 PM PDT AP - Vice President Joe Biden praised Democrat Robin Carnahan as a gritty candidate unlikely to buckle to others while helping raise money for her U.S. Senate campaign.

Angle: Muslim law taking hold in parts of US (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a crowd of supporters that the country needs to address a "militant terrorist situation" that has allowed Islamic religious law to take hold in some American cities.

Obama wades into fight for his old Senate seat (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama threw his weight behind a Democratic bid to save his old Senate seat on Thursday as he sought to rally his party less than four weeks before elections that threaten its grip on Congress.

Tax-slashing proposals scare GOP, Democrats (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:58 PM PDT AP - Businessmen gather at an empty Denver Broncos stadium, with an ominous warning: The more than 70,000 vacant seats around them represent the number of state jobs that would be lost if three tax-slashing and debt-cutting measures are approved in next month's election.

Dudley gave house for fire training, got tax break (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT AP - Republican Chris Dudley, a former professional basketball player now running for governor in Oregon, acknowledges he allowed firefighters to burn his house in 2004 in a posh Portland suburb as part of a training exercise for the local fire department and took a $350,000 tax deduction for it.

Post-election ethics trials set for Rangel, Waters (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - Ethics trials for two prominent House Democrats were set Thursday for after the midterm elections, depriving Republicans of headlines that could become campaign ads.

New version of NBA Jam includes President Obama, other politicans (Daily Caller) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:34 PM PDT Daily Caller - The newest version of NBA Jam, released by Electronic Arts for the Wii console on Tuesday, contains the hidden likeness of President Barack Obama, along with other members of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Top Nevada GOP lawmaker endorses Reid (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT AP - Veteran state Sen. Bill Raggio, one of Nevada's most influential Republicans over the last four decades, says he's reluctantly endorsing Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's re-election campaign.

GOP pulling W.Va. Senate ad with 'hicky' actors (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:22 PM PDT AP - National Republicans pulled back a West Virginia Senate ad Thursday after Democrats revealed its casting call had sought actors who looked like hicks to play state voters.

Franken stumps in Delaware for Chris Coons (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Minnesota Sen. Al Franken displayed flashes of his biting humor at a campaign rally for Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons, but Franken only let reporters in on the jokes after an appeal from the Coons campaign.

Trailing NY gov candidate takes to TV to make case (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - Republican Carl Paladino spent three minutes of paid TV airtime in his hometown of Buffalo Thursday trying to explain directly to New Yorkers his version of a week's worth of conflict that has ended his momentum and threatens his campaign for governor.

Judge says SC Senate candidate can stay free (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:29 PM PDT AP - A judge says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene can remain free on a misdemeanor obscenity charge.

Mass. gov. hopeful alleges GOP dirty tricks (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:28 PM PDT AP - Massachusetts independent Timothy Cahill filed a lawsuit Thursday against former operatives who recently defected from his campaign, saying they conspired to get his running mate Paul Loscocco to quit the ticket, and were working with national Republicans to pass along confidential information that would undermine his candidacy for governor.

Obama slams torrent of cash swamping US polls (AFP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:08 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama Thursday hit out at a wave of private and foreign cash swamping the US mid-term election campaign, urging backers to fight millions of dollars with millions of voices.

Judge upholds key part of Obama healthcare law (Reuters) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:32 PM PDT Reuters - A judge on Thursday upheld a key part of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law that requires Americans to obtain coverage, rejecting a challenge by a conservative interest group.

Dems' Rising Star Takes Fall (The Daily Beast) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:28 PM PDT The Daily Beast - Promising Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is working tirelessly to prove her bipartisan stripes and support for border security—but the race against Republican Jesse Kelly is currently a draw, according to our Election Oracle, which mixes polling with opinions from millions of online posts and tweets.

3 dozen treated for dehydration at Md Obama rally (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - Emergency workers treated about three dozen people complaining of dizziness and fainting spells at a Bowie State University rally with President Barack Obama and Gov. Martin O'Malley.

Democratic strategist Plouffe: ‘You’re looking at ideal Republican turnout’ (The Upshot) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:11 PM PDT The Upshot - Democratic strategist David Plouffe didn't mince words during a press briefing Thursday on the 2010 elections. "In most states, you're looking at ideal Republican turnout," Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, told a room of reporters gathered at Democratic National Committee headquarters. While the party in power traditionally suffers in the midterm election, Plouffe says [...]

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