2010年10月31日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections


No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:47 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION FOR IMPROVED TONING ** The North Lawn of the White House is decorated for Halloween celebrations Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010, in Washington. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome children from Washington area, and members of the military with their families to Trick-or-Treat at the White House. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, handed out Halloween treats to area children and military families at the White House Sunday evening.


Wis. Senate candidates play nice as election nears (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:46 PM PDT

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, greets supporters, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010, during a campaign stop at the Democratic Party of Racine, Wis. County campaign headquarters in Racine, Wis. Feingold is running against Wisconsin Republican senatorial candidate Ron Johnson. (AP Photo/The Journal Times, Scott Anderson)AP - Wisconsin's two U.S. Senate candidates are replacing their attacks against each other with positive ads about themselves.


Rousseff rides economic boom to Brazil's presidency (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:44 PM PDT

Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's presidential candidate for the ruling Workers' Party, gestures as she leaves a voting booth in Porto Alegre October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Sergio MoraesReuters - Former guerrilla leader Dilma Rousseff won Brazil's presidential election in resounding fashion on Sunday after promising to stick to policies that have lifted millions from poverty and made Brazil one of the world's hottest economies.


Clinton stumps for Malloy in Conn. governor race (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:43 PM PDT

Connecticut Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley, left, speaks to Tom Williams, of New Canaan as Williams' children Thomas, left, Robert, center, and their friend Kiera Finnerty grab some candy at a Halloween parade in New Canaan, Conn., on Sunday,  Oct. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)AP - Former President Bill Clinton is urging Connecticut voters to back fellow Democrat Dan Malloy for governor, saying the shape and speed that the state recovers from the recession will depend on who is elected on Tuesday.


Obama's philosophy, character still elusive (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:42 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks during a AFP - Despite two years under unforgiving scrutiny, President Barack Obama's true political philosophy remains elusive, as his White House braces for a sickening blow in congressional elections.


US Tea Party faces crucial election test (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:41 PM PDT

Tea Party supporters attend a rally on October 19, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The arch-conservative US Tea Party movement, fueled by anger at President Barack Obama and the sour economy, now faces a defining test of its strength and future in Tuesday's elections.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - The arch-conservative US Tea Party movement, fueled by anger at President Barack Obama and the sour economy, now faces a defining test of its strength and future in Tuesday's elections.


Bill Clinton rallies for Caprio in RI gov race (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton stumps for Democratic candidate for Governor Frank Caprio in Providence, R.I  on Sunday Oct. 31, 2010. Clinton is making his second stop for Caprio, two days before Tuesday's election that puts Caprio in a hotly contested race against Independent Lincoln Chafee, Republican John Robitaille and Moderate Party candidate Ken Block. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)AP - Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday didn't make much of President Barack Obama's decision not to endorse Rhode Island's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, joking instead at a rally that he's surprised Caprio hasn't received the support of the tea party.


Will he be back? Arnie mulls California termination (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:33 PM PDT

Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured on October 14, the champion Austrian bodybuilder who became a Hollywood movie star and then morphed into a respected US politician, is about to have to reinvent himself again.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Arnold Schwarzenegger, the champion Austrian bodybuilder who became a Hollywood movie star and then morphed into a respected US politician, is about to have to reinvent himself again.


Instant View: Rousseff wins Brazil presidential election (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:32 PM PDT

Reuters - Ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff won Brazil's presidential election on Sunday in a runoff vote and will become the first woman to lead Latin America's largest economy.

'Iron Lady' Rousseff wins Brazilian presidency (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:14 PM PDT

Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff makes the victory sign after casting her ballot at a polling station in Porto Alegre. Rousseff was Sunday elected Brazil's first female president, according to an official count showing her with 55 percent of ballots in a runoff against opposition rival Jose Serra.(AFP/Jefferson Bernardes)AFP - Dilma Rousseff, a 62-year-old grandmother who was jailed in the 1970s for guerrilla activities, was Sunday elected Brazil's first female president, succeeding her mentor and outgoing leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.


Pa. governor hopefuls focus on Philly-area voters (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT

Allegheny County Executive and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato, has a laugh with Tony Guy, left, as he makes a campaign stop at Pamela's P&G Diner in the Strip District in Pittsburgh,  Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 . (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Gubernatorial candidates Dan Onorato and Tom Corbett visited neighborhood churches, diners and taverns Sunday on the last weekend of the campaign to win over undecided voters and make certain their supporters cast ballots on Election Day.


Sestak, Toomey vie for Pa.'s suburban moderates (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Pennsylvania Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., talks with 5-year-old Queennairobi Brown after he addressed a gathering of his campaign workers and volunteers at the campaign headquarters in Pittsburgh,  Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 . (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Canvassers and party loyalists came out to a parking lot, hockey rink and banquet hall on Sunday to see Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate candidates as they vie for support in Philadelphia's heavily populated suburbs packed with moderate, swing voters.


Biden stumps for Ohio gov. locked in tight race (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:35 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden walks across the ramp at Cleveland Hopkins Airport toward Air Force One to meet President Barack Obama Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. Biden and Obama arrives separately to appear at a campaign rally for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, Senate candidate Lee Fisher and other Democrats at Cleveland State University. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - Vice President Joe Biden says the Republican Party he sees today is different than the one he knew years ago.


Is Obama too calm in the eye of the storm? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

President Barack Obama greets people at Cleveland Hopkins airport before a rally at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Ronald Brownstein National Journal President Obama faces the risk next week of an even greater electoral pasting than Bill Clinton suffered in 1994, after his first two years in office. Yet the personal reaction of the two men to …


Mass. gov. hopefuls make final pitch to undecideds (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:01 PM PDT

Massachusetts incumbent Gov. Deval Patrick, center, campaigns in Peabody, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010.  Patrick will face Republican candidate Charlie Baker in Tuesday's general election. Patrick is being escorted into a restaurant by Chef and owner James Christopher, of Peabody, second from right. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The top candidates for Massachusetts governor hammered home familiar themes in a final push for undecided voters Sunday with Republican Charles Baker faulting Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick for higher taxes and Patrick saying the state is making steady progress.


Republican election gains likely to embolden Israeli PM (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:54 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at his Jerusalem offices to chair the weekly cabinet meeting. A weakening of US President Barack Obama's Democrats in this week's Congressional elections would make Israel more resistant to demands for a new freeze on Jewish settlement, analysts say.(AFP/Pool/Jim Hollander)AFP - A weakening of US President Barack Obama's Democrats in this week's Congressional elections would make Israel more resistant to demands for a new freeze on Jewish settlement, analysts say.


Bill Clinton pleads with NH Democrats to go vote (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:45 PM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton stumps for Democratic candidate for Governor Frank Caprio in Providence, R.I  on Sunday Oct. 31, 2010. Clinton is making his second stop for Caprio, two days before Tuesday's election that puts Caprio in a hotly contested race against Independent Lincoln Chafee, Republican John Robitaille and Moderate Party candidate Ken Block. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)AP - Former President Bill Clinton returned to New Hampshire, the state that gave his presidential campaign new life in 1992, hoping his star power can do the same for Democrats on Tuesday.


With images of civil rights, blacks urged to vote (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:25 PM PDT

AP - On the Sunday before Election Day, preachers told black churchgoers across the country to get out and vote — and defy predictions that they'll be complacent or uninterested in a year that President Barack Obama isn't on the ballot.

Obama makes final pitch to voters, says Republicans getting “cocky” (Daily Caller)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:11 PM PDT

Daily Caller - President Obama on Sunday made his final appeal to voters not to vote for Republicans on Tuesday, capping off a two-day four-state campaign swing that was limited to Democratic strongholds because of how unpopular his policies have proven in many battleground races.

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