Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Nancy Reagan endorses Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina (AP)
• Obama to name critic Warren to consumer job (Reuters)
• AP-GfK Poll: Climate for GOP keeps getting better (AP)
• 2010 Pennsylvania 8th District race: Former representative Mike Fitzgerald leads Republican charge against Democrat Patrick Murphy (The Newsroom)
• 2010 Pennsylvania 3rd District race: Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper faces tough Republican Challenger Mike Kelly (The Newsroom)
• Obama: Republicans playing games with tax cuts (Reuters)
• O'Donnell in spotlight after Del. primary victory (AP)
• Obama to Republicans: stop playing games on tax cuts (AFP)
• Romney endorses O'Donnell, donates to her campaign (AP)
• NH Senate primary winner Ayotte claims GOP mantle (AP)
• Education reform a factor in DC mayor's loss (AP)
• Meg Whitman breaks US campaign spending records (AP)
• More House Democrats call for tax cuts for all (AP)
• Voters oust 2 faces of NY's political dysfunction (AP)
• How the poll on election views was conducted (AP)
• AP Interview: Colo.'s Maes details police role (AP)
• US Republicans see Senate takeover hopes dim (AFP)
• Obama urges troops, veterans to claim back pay (AP)
• White House sends spending wish list to Congress (AP)

Nancy Reagan endorses Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - Former First Lady Nancy Reagan is endorsing California Republican candidates Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina.

Obama to name critic Warren to consumer job (Reuters) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 05:47 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama plans to name Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren to a special advisory role helping to set up the new U.S. consumer financial watchdog, Democratic sources said on Wednesday.

AP-GfK Poll: Climate for GOP keeps getting better (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 05:18 PM PDT AP - Tilted toward the GOP from the start of the year, the political environment has grown even more favorable for Republicans and rockier for President Barack Obama and his Democrats over the long primary season that just ended with a bang.

2010 Pennsylvania 8th District race: Former representative Mike Fitzgerald leads Republican charge against Democrat Patrick Murphy (The Newsroom) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:48 PM PDT The Newsroom - Patrick Murphy must face Republican Mike Fitzgerald in the Philadelphia suburb district known for close matches between the two. This year, the advantage is in Fitzgerald's court as widespread voter disappointment in President Barrack Obama and in the Democrat-controlled Congress has sparked a strong political climate of anti-incumbency. Murphy will be hard-pressed to keep his seat under the circumstances, but he has a fighting chance.

2010 Pennsylvania 3rd District race: Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper faces tough Republican Challenger Mike Kelly (The Newsroom) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:44 PM PDT The Newsroom - Democrat Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper arrived from nowhere politically, besting seven-term incumbent Phil English in 2008 in Pennsylvania's 3rd House District. Unable to swim against the tide that year, English lost an incredibly tight race that could be just as close this year. Dahlkemper faces Mike Kelly in a tough re-election year for candidates, placing her in one of the most vulnerable seats in Pennsylvania.

Obama: Republicans playing games with tax cuts (Reuters) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:19 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama urged Republicans on Wednesday to help renew Bush-era tax cuts quickly for the middle class but not wealthier Americans -- a flashpoint issue going into November's congressional election.

O'Donnell in spotlight after Del. primary victory (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:15 PM PDT AP - She has used campaign contributions to help pay the rent, taken more than 20 years to get her bachelor's degree and equated masturbation with adultery. And she just stunned the GOP establishment by beating a nine-term congressman and two-term governor in Delaware's U.S. Senate primary election.

Obama to Republicans: stop playing games on tax cuts (AFP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:08 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama Wednesday told Republicans to stop "playing games" and back an extension to middle class tax cuts, firing a fresh shot in the escalating mid-term election campaign.

Romney endorses O'Donnell, donates to her campaign (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:04 PM PDT AP - Potential 2012 Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has endorsed tea party-backed Christine O'Donnell in the race for Senate in Delaware and contributed $5,000 from his political action committee to her campaign.

NH Senate primary winner Ayotte claims GOP mantle (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:33 PM PDT AP - The Republican winner of a nail-biter of a primary election says she'll stress fiscal responsibility in her campaign to represent New Hampshire in the Senate.

Education reform a factor in DC mayor's loss (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - Mayor Adrian Fenty's head of public schools fired hundreds of teachers and aided a turnaround of Washington's failing school system, but his choice of school chancellor also helped bounce him out of office.

Meg Whitman breaks US campaign spending records (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, has surpassed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the highest personal contribution in American campaign history.

More House Democrats call for tax cuts for all (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - More Democrats joined Republicans on Wednesday in calling for the preservation of tax breaks for Americans of every income level, bolting this election season from President Barack Obama's plan to preserve cuts for those who earn less than $200,000 and let taxes for the wealthy rise.

Voters oust 2 faces of NY's political dysfunction (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT AP - The rogues at the heart of two embarrassing years of corruption accusations, partisan gridlock and dirty politics in the New York state Senate were forcefully ejected by voters Tuesday, leaving in tatters the web of political alliances that had long insulated the two Democrats.

How the poll on election views was conducted (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:45 PM PDT AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on the midterm elections was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Sept. 8-13. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,000 adults. Interviews were conducted with 700 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.

AP Interview: Colo.'s Maes details police role (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:28 PM PDT AP - Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes says he felt like former New York cop Frank Serpico when he helped investigate an alleged gambling ring as a police officer in Kansas in the 1980s, only to have his comrades turn against him. Now he's stunned that it's being used against him by political opponents.

US Republicans see Senate takeover hopes dim (AFP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:06 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama's Republican foes on Wednesday picked over the results of a shock Tea Party primary win that, analysts said, all but wiped out their thin hopes of retaking the US Senate.

Obama urges troops, veterans to claim back pay (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 12:24 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is encouraging service members whose tours in Iraq or Afghanistan were involuntarily extended or who weren't allowed to retire as planned to meet an Oct. 21 deadline to apply for special retroactive pay.

White House sends spending wish list to Congress (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 11:29 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration is pushing a pre-election shopping list on its Democratic allies in Congress as they prepare must-pass legislation to prevent a government shutdown next month.

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