Yahoo! News: Elections

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• On vacation, Obama tends to summer reading list (AP)
• Adult website operator among Rand Paul donors (AP)
• Ind. Democrat Donnelly blasts Pelosi in new ad (AP)
• Wyclef Jean brings sizzle to Haiti election (AP)
• Halvorson Defends Firing of Campaign Manager (CQPolitics.com)
• Obama seeks reimprisonment for Lockerbie bomber (AP)
• Are Voters Really Moving Beyond Race? (CQPolitics.com)
• Candy makers mad at Obama and Congress for Mexico tariff (Reuters)
• Haiti and Wyclef Jean await election candidates list (Reuters)
• Sen. David Vitter currently well positioned for re-election, despite scandals (The Upshot)
• Independent GOP group airs ads in Nevada, Missouri (AP)
• Biden lashes out at 'Republican tea party' (AP)
• Dems approve 2012 changes (AP)
• Nigeria: Election pressure mounts for quiet leader (AP)
• Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan (AP)
• Crist’s GOP donors aren’t rushing to support Rubio (The Upshot)
• How the poll on Iraq-Afghanistan was conducted (AP)
• Shareholders weigh in on Target and Best Buy’s political giving (The Upshot)
• Indiana Dem goes after Pelosi in campaign ad (The Upshot)
• Nuke waste dump influences races outside Nevada (AP)

On vacation, Obama tends to summer reading list (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - In the first full day of a Martha's Vineyard vacation, President Barack Obama set aside some of the cares of office Friday to work on his family's summer reading list.

Adult website operator among Rand Paul donors (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:57 PM PDT AP - Republican Rand Paul's campaign for Senate in conservative Kentucky wouldn't say Friday whether it will return money from a donor who runs an adult website featuring photos of lingerie-clad and nude women.

Ind. Democrat Donnelly blasts Pelosi in new ad (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly is taking an unusual jab at his party's leadership in a campaign ad that refers to climate change legislation as "Nancy Pelosi's energy tax."

Wyclef Jean brings sizzle to Haiti election (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - An anxious public waited Friday to hear whether hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean would be allowed to run for president of Haiti, but one thing is already certain: The singer has brought sizzle to the election, attracting fresh attention to a country still devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Halvorson Defends Firing of Campaign Manager (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:52 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - JOLIET, Ill. -- Illinois Rep. Debbie Halvorson, a top Republican target this cycle, said Friday she had no regrets about dismissing campaign manager Travis Worl less than three months before Election Day.

Obama seeks reimprisonment for Lockerbie bomber (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration asked Friday that the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 be returned to a Scottish prison.

Are Voters Really Moving Beyond Race? (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:29 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - From Barack Obama's election as president to a white Congressman fending off African-American challengers in a majority-black district, have Americans moved beyond race as a determining factor in their vote choice?

Candy makers mad at Obama and Congress for Mexico tariff (Reuters) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:06 PM PDT Reuters - Candy makers on Friday blamed President Barack Obama's administration and Congress for a new 20 percent duty on $45 million of U.S. chewing gum and chocolate exports to Mexico.

Haiti and Wyclef Jean await election candidates list (Reuters) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:11 AM PDT Reuters - Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean's bid to run for Haiti's presidency hung in the balance on Friday as the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean country waited for its electoral authority to publish the final list of approved candidates.

Sen. David Vitter currently well positioned for re-election, despite scandals (The Upshot) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:06 AM PDT The Upshot - When news broke that Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter had drawn Chet Traylor, a former state Supreme Court justice as a primary challenger, Democrats held  hope that Traylor could badly damage the senator or perhaps even take him out before November. But just eight days out from Louisiana's primary balloting, Traylor is pretty much MIA. [...]

Independent GOP group airs ads in Nevada, Missouri (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:49 AM PDT AP - An independent political group devoted to helping Republican candidates is spending more than $2 million for television ads in Nevada and Missouri that criticize Democratic Senate candidates.

Biden lashes out at 'Republican tea party' (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:35 AM PDT AP - Vice President Joe Biden boldly predicted Friday that voters would reject a "Republican tea party" of extreme candidates and Democrats would retain control of Congress this November.

Dems approve 2012 changes (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:34 AM PDT AP - The Democratic National Committee has approved a 2012 presidential primary nominating calendar that pushes back the start of the voting by one month.

Nigeria: Election pressure mounts for quiet leader (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:26 AM PDT AP - While Nigeria's president remains silent on whether he'll seek the oil-rich nation's highest office in upcoming elections, the campaign has all but begun on the Internet.

Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:23 AM PDT AP - A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Crist’s GOP donors aren’t rushing to support Rubio (The Upshot) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:20 AM PDT The Upshot - Republicans threw a fit when Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who'd dropped his GOP affiliation to mount an independent Senate campaign, refused to return contributions he raised from donors to his initial Republican campaign. But it appears that not many of Crist's donors were all that interested in giving to Crist's  GOP rival â€" and likely [...]

How the poll on Iraq-Afghanistan was conducted (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:29 AM PDT AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on Iraq and Afghanistan was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Aug. 11-16, 2010. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,007 adults. Interviews were conducted with 706 respondents on landline telephones and 301 on cellular phones.

Shareholders weigh in on Target and Best Buy’s political giving (The Upshot) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:27 AM PDT The Upshot - Target and its corporate retail cousin Best Buy are continuing to suffer fallout from donations to a Minnesota group that backed a gay-marriage opponent for governor. On top of organized consumer boycotts and public pressure campaigns, some of the retail giant's investors are up in arms, according to the Associated Press. The anti-Target effort among [...]

Indiana Dem goes after Pelosi in campaign ad (The Upshot) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:07 AM PDT The Upshot - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has kept her distance from Democrats on the campaign trail, as Republicans try to make her an issue in local races. But one conservative Democrat in Indiana is not only mentioning Pelosi; he's also making a point of attacking her. For the second time in less than a month, two-term Democratic [...]

Nuke waste dump influences races outside Nevada (AP) Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:26 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration's decision to bypass Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository should give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a boost in his bid for a fifth term. The action is not doing another endangered Democrat, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, any favors.

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