Yahoo! News: Elections

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• O'Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment (AP)
• Centre-right wins Swedish vote but short of majority (Reuters)
• Obamas attend Sunday services at Episcopal church (AP)
• Swedish vote ends in hung parliament: near final results (AFP)
• Democrats waging 'military campaigns' for Congress (AP)
• Powell: Obama has lost ‘some of his ability to connect’ (The Upshot)
• President Clinton: We should all listen to the tea party movement (The Upshot)
• Obama says govt remains committed to Gulf relief (AP)
• Murkowski Says She's Running for Voters in Political Center (CQPolitics.com)
• Three bombs kill 18, wound scores in Iraq (Reuters)
• Colin Powell decries 'nonsense' attacks on Obama (AP)
• Fraud and turnout weigh on "miracle" Afghan poll (Reuters)
• Early bird gets the vote? Pols hunt early ballots (AP)
• Republican senator warns of possible death for GOP (AP)
• Afghanistan vote count begins amid fears of fraud (AFP)
• Murkowski defends write-in Senate bid (AP)
• Hawaii governor race to feature Abercrombie, Aiona (AP)
• Obama urges blacks to vote and "guard the change" (Reuters)
• Clinton: Midterms won't impact her work (AP)
• Obama: Black lawmakers must rally voters back home (AP)

O'Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is making light of comments she made more than a decade ago about having dabbled in witchcraft when she was in high school.

Centre-right wins Swedish vote but short of majority (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 03:56 PM PDT Reuters - Sweden's prime minister became the nation's first sitting center-right leader to win re-election on Sunday, but he was deprived of a majority by the entry into parliament of an anti-immigrant party.

Obamas attend Sunday services at Episcopal church (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 03:32 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and his family attended an hourlong service Sunday morning at a church just across the street from the White House.

Swedish vote ends in hung parliament: near final results (AFP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 03:06 PM PDT AFP - Sweden's ruling centre-right coalition came in first in Sunday's election but fell short of a majority, near final results showed, as the far-right was seen entering a key position in a hung parliament.

Democrats waging 'military campaigns' for Congress (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 11:47 AM PDT AP - His campaign fliers declare him "A Soldier's Congressman." His TV ads feature testimonials from the mother of a Marine. And he accuses his Republican opponent of not supporting the troops.

Powell: Obama has lost ‘some of his ability to connect’ (The Upshot) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 11:32 AM PDT The Upshot - Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a moderate Republican who endorsed President Obama in 2008, said he believes the president has lost "some of his ability to connect" with the American people by taking on too many problems at once instead of focusing solely on the economy and jobs. "The president… has to, I think, shift the [...]

President Clinton: We should all listen to the tea party movement (The Upshot) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 11:10 AM PDT The Upshot - The tea party is saying something "everyone should hear," says President Bill Clinton, that "everyone but average Americans are doing alright." In an interview with Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post tied to the start of the Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting this week, Clinton offered his take on the rise of the tea party [...]

Obama says govt remains committed to Gulf relief (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 09:41 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is calling the successful "kill" for the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico a milestone in his administration's response to the disaster that leaked hundreds of millions of gallons of oil.

Murkowski Says She's Running for Voters in Political Center (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 09:35 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Sunday defended her decision to pursue re-election via a write-in campaign.

Three bombs kill 18, wound scores in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 08:49 AM PDT Reuters - Three car bombs killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in Iraq on Sunday as tension runs high six months after an election that no one won outright and weeks after U.S. troops ended combat operations.

Colin Powell decries 'nonsense' attacks on Obama (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 08:00 AM PDT AP - Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a moderate Republican who endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, says the president's critics should be going after him on policy, not "nonsense."

Fraud and turnout weigh on "miracle" Afghan poll (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 07:25 AM PDT Reuters - The top United Nations diplomat in Afghanistan said on Sunday it was too early to describe a parliamentary election as a success, with an expected 4,000 complaints to be heard and turnout figures not yet established.

Early bird gets the vote? Pols hunt early ballots (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 06:57 AM PDT AP - Candidates of all political stripes are latching on to the tantalizing reality that a huge — and growing — chunk of voters casts ballots well ahead of Election Day.

Republican senator warns of possible death for GOP (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 06:53 AM PDT AP - One of the GOP's most conservative senators and a tea-party favorite, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, says the Republican Party will be "dead" if it fails to live up to its principles again.

Afghanistan vote count begins amid fears of fraud (AFP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 06:42 AM PDT AFP - Allegations of fraud and a low voter turnout overshadowed vote counting in Afghanistan's parliamentary election Sunday after widespread and deadly Taliban violence targeted the key poll.

Murkowski defends write-in Senate bid (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 06:09 AM PDT AP - Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says her write-in effort to re-enter the race to retain her seat in the Senate isn't undermining the Republican Party.

Hawaii governor race to feature Abercrombie, Aiona (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 04:26 AM PDT AP - Former U.S. Rep Neil Abercrombie convincingly won the Democratic nomination for Hawaii governor and will face Republican Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona in an attempt to regain leadership of President Barack Obama's birth state.

Obama urges blacks to vote and "guard the change" (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 04:15 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama, seeking to fire up an important part of his support base ahead of November's elections, told black leaders on Saturday he wanted their support to "guard the change" he was delivering.

Clinton: Midterms won't impact her work (AP) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 03:55 AM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says election wins by supporters of the conservative tea party movement probably wouldn't have much impact on her diplomatic agenda.

Obama: Black lawmakers must rally voters back home (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2010 11:55 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama implored black voters on Saturday to rekindle the passion they felt for his groundbreaking campaign and turn out in force this fall to repel Republicans who are ready to "turn back the clock."

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