Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama a Muslim? Rumors gain steam, defying facts (AP)
• Democrats reject gloomy election forecast (Reuters)
• Obama begins vacation, takes parting shots at Republicans (AFP)
• New York Haitians wary of Wyclef Jean president bid (Reuters)
• More Americans say Obama is Muslim (AFP)
• Primary losses blunt Palin's 'mama grizzly' claws (AP)
• Pastors who pray with Obama say he's devout Christian (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Obama makes four appointments, bypassing Senate (Reuters)
• Vacationing Obama makes 4 recess appointments (AP)
• As economy lags, CBO adds fuel to debate on tax breaks (McClatchy Newspapers)
• White House says Obama is Christian, prays daily (AP)
• GOP reignites the Joe Sestak job-offer flap (The Upshot)
• Vacation time for the president (AP)
• Blagojevich is campaign distraction for Ill. Dems (AP)
• Celebrities, attacks on mom? It's Fla.'s Dem race (AP)
• Viktor Bout case: US concern over possible freedom (AP)
• DNC panel proposes presidential primary changes (AP)
• Lawsuit claims indicted ex-GOP chair spent party funds to boost Crist’s Senate campaign (The Upshot)
• Party official: Democrats raise $11.5M in July (AP)
• Santorum says he’s ‘being pulled’ into 2012 race (The Upshot)

Obama a Muslim? Rumors gain steam, defying facts (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - "President Obama is a Muslim." "He's not an American citizen." "He wasn't even born here."

Democrats reject gloomy election forecast (Reuters) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:54 PM PDT Reuters - Democratic Party leaders on Thursday rejected predictions of doom in November's elections and said a strong voter turnout operation and weak Republican candidates would propel them to a better-than-expected result.

Obama begins vacation, takes parting shots at Republicans (AFP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:50 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama began his seaside vacation Thursday after taking parting shots at opposition Republicans he accused of seeking political points ahead of November elections.

New York Haitians wary of Wyclef Jean president bid (Reuters) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:36 PM PDT Reuters - Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean's love for his homeland is not doubted by Haitians in New York -- one of the largest communities outside the Caribbean nation -- but many are wary of his campaign to become Haiti's president.

More Americans say Obama is Muslim (AFP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT AFP - Roughly one in five Americans wrongly says President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to two new US opinion polls out Thursday amid a furor over a planned mosque near New York's "Ground Zero."

Primary losses blunt Palin's 'mama grizzly' claws (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - It's been a summer of setbacks for Sarah Palin. Candidate "cubs" endorsed by the Mama Grizzly in Chief have been suffering a recent string of primary election losses.

Pastors who pray with Obama say he's devout Christian (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:01 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Pastors who've prayed with President Barack Obama defended his Christian faith Thursday as the White House downplayed new polling that showed a steep climb since he took office in the percentage of Americans who think he's Muslim or at least don't believe that he's Christian.

Obama makes four appointments, bypassing Senate (Reuters) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:19 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday made four recess job appointments to his administration, including a new U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, postponing the need for Senate approval.

Vacationing Obama makes 4 recess appointments (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - Once again bypassing a gridlocked Senate, President Barack Obama acted Thursday to install three agency officials and a diplomat whose nominations had stalled amid election-year squabbling.

As economy lags, CBO adds fuel to debate on tax breaks (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:51 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Just in time for the fall election campaigns, a new report Thursday showed jobless claims jumping unexpectedly, providing new fuel for the debate over what economic, fiscal and political path might lead the way to recovery.

White House says Obama is Christian, prays daily (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:34 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is a Christian who prays daily, a White House official said Thursday, trying to tamp down growing doubts about the president's religion.

GOP reignites the Joe Sestak job-offer flap (The Upshot) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:13 PM PDT The Upshot - With just 75 days to go until Election Day, Republicans are looking to revive a scandal that dogged Rep. Joe Sestak's Senate bid in Pennsylvania earlier this year. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele sent a letter Wednesday urging the Justice Department to investigate Sestak's claim that the White House offered him a job in [...]

Vacation time for the president (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:02 PM PDT AP - Martha's Vineyard is barely an hour's flight from Washington, but it felt worlds away as President Barack Obama and his family began their summer vacation Thursday amid the island's beaches and quaint farmhouses.

Blagojevich is campaign distraction for Ill. Dems (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 01:36 PM PDT AP - Alexi Giannoulias had planned to talk jobs. The Democrat in a tight race for President Barack Obama's former Senate seat wanted to take the opportunity to say his Republican opponent had helped wreck the nation's economy.

Celebrities, attacks on mom? It's Fla.'s Dem race (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:25 PM PDT AP - The level of political discourse in the Democratic Senate primary boils down to: Your celebrity friends are low lifes. Response: So's your mom.

Viktor Bout case: US concern over possible freedom (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 12:09 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration and a half-dozen members of Congress are expressing concern over the potential release of reputed international arms merchant Viktor Bout by the government of Thailand.

DNC panel proposes presidential primary changes (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:44 AM PDT AP - A Democratic National Committee panel is proposing giving states that hold their presidential primaries later in the 2012 calendar year bonus delegates to the convention.

Lawsuit claims indicted ex-GOP chair spent party funds to boost Crist’s Senate campaign (The Upshot) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:05 AM PDT The Upshot - Charlie Crist could be facing more fallout from his ties to an ex-Florida GOP chairman implicated in a party fundraising scandal. A former state GOP employee has filed a lawsuit against the Republican Party of Florida claiming she was wrongfully terminated after she reported financial misdealing by ex-chairman Jim Greer. Greer was indicted earlier this [...]

Party official: Democrats raise $11.5M in July (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:40 AM PDT AP - The Democratic National Committee is expected to report their second best fundraising of this election cycle — an $11.5 million haul in July that leaves them with $10.8 million in the bank.

Santorum says he’s ‘being pulled’ into 2012 race (The Upshot) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:13 AM PDT The Upshot - Rick Santorum is barely a blip in polls gauging the 2012 Republican presidential field. Still, the former GOP senator from Pennsylvania tells the Des Moines Register that he feels like he's "being pulled" into the race, as he actively plots a White House run. "I sort of feel in some respects I'm being pulled along [...]

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