Yahoo! News: Elections

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• UN says Myanmar vote not credible without Aung San Suu Kyi (AFP)
• GOP groups overwhelm Dems with political ads (AP)
• Biden: Democratic base should 'stop whining' (AP)
• Obama returning U. of Wis. to court young voters (AP)
• Obama heads west, seeking youthful spirit of '08 (AFP)
• AP Interview: Paladino says term won't be 'pretty' (AP)
• Election boosts Venezuela's opposition (Reuters)
• Obama starts three-day, four-state trip in N.M (AP)
• Al Gore's lawyer seeks to lead BP oil spill cases (Reuters)
• Lazio drops out of NY governor's race, helping GOP (AP)
• Obama signs small business bill into law (Reuters)
• Iraq: US should help break government deadlock (AP)
• Discouraging poll numbers emerge as Castle mulls Delaware write-in (The Upshot)
• Fla. GOP donors appeal ruling on Crist refunds (AP)
• China's Currency Policy Draws an Unusually Bipartisan Response (CQPolitics.com)
• Paul loses polling edge in Kentucky Senate, but tea partiers going strong (The Upshot)
• Review: Lincoln's election year in colorful detail (AP)
• Obama: Money alone can't solve school predicament (AP)
• Obama says U.S. not in a jobless recovery (Reuters)
• Obama: DC public schools are 'struggling' (AP)

UN says Myanmar vote not credible without Aung San Suu Kyi (AFP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:39 PM PDT AFP - Myanmar's looming election will not be credible unless the military rulers release Nobel prize-winning opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a UN ministerial group said Monday.

GOP groups overwhelm Dems with political ads (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:18 PM PDT AP - In one way at least, the fight for control of Congress is grossly one-sided.

Biden: Democratic base should 'stop whining' (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:18 PM PDT AP - Campaigning for Democratic candidates in New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden said Monday the party's base should "stop whining."

Obama returning U. of Wis. to court young voters (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:02 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama plans a University of Wisconsin rally complete with rock bands to ask young voters who helped propel him to the White House to re-engage and save fellow Democrats from political disaster this November.

Obama heads west, seeking youthful spirit of '08 (AFP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:57 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama headed west Monday, seeking to rekindle the spirit of his barnstorming 2008 campaign and fire up young voters who helped land him in the White House.

AP Interview: Paladino says term won't be 'pretty' (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:48 PM PDT AP - If politics is the art of compromise, no one told Carl Paladino.

Election boosts Venezuela's opposition (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:46 PM PDT Reuters - Venezuela's rejuvenated opposition celebrated on Monday after reducing President Hugo Chavez's majority in parliament and set their sights on defeating him at the next presidential election in 2012.

Obama starts three-day, four-state trip in N.M (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:22 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is embarking on a four-state tour featuring three more of the backyard visits with American voters that have become a campaign staple of his.

Al Gore's lawyer seeks to lead BP oil spill cases (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:58 PM PDT Reuters - A high-profile attorney who represented former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election recount has made a surprise bid to lead the mammoth U.S. legal cases tied to the Gulf oil spill.

Lazio drops out of NY governor's race, helping GOP (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:08 PM PDT AP - The unpredictable race for governor in New York got wilder Monday after Conservative Party candidate Rick Lazio withdrew, boosting the chances of the tea party Republican who is taking on the once-unassailable Democratic nominee, Andrew Cuomo.

Obama signs small business bill into law (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:05 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama signed a $30 billion small business lending bill into law on Monday, claiming a victory on economic policy for his fellow Democrats ahead of November congressional elections.

Iraq: US should help break government deadlock (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:14 PM PDT AP - Iraq's foreign minister urged the United States on Monday to take a more active role in breaking the deadlock over formation of a new government, saying the nearly seven-month election stalemate has not only left the country in limbo but hurt its economy.

Discouraging poll numbers emerge as Castle mulls Delaware write-in (The Upshot) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 11:29 AM PDT The Upshot - Republican Rep. Mike Castle said last week he would conduct polling to help him determine whether to wage a write-in bid for Senate in Delaware. While we don't yet know what Castle's internal polling has shown, a new Rasmussen Reports survey doesn't contain any encouraging news for the lawmaker. Just 5 percent of Delaware voters [...]

Fla. GOP donors appeal ruling on Crist refunds (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 11:26 AM PDT AP - Republicans aren't giving up their quest for refunds of donations they gave Gov. Charlie Crist's U.S. Senate campaign before he abandoned the GOP to run as an independent.

China's Currency Policy Draws an Unusually Bipartisan Response (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:20 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - Anger over Chinese government trade policies has become an increasingly bipartisan cause amid the partisan gridlock of the 2010 election season.

Paul loses polling edge in Kentucky Senate, but tea partiers going strong (The Upshot) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 07:55 AM PDT The Upshot - Democratic campaign strategists have spent recent weeks arguing that momentum will swing their way soon: General-election voters will chafe at several tea party candidates  in high-profile midterm races once they see that they are "too extreme," the thinking goes. But even as some of the tea party are flagging a bit in recent polls, in [...]

Review: Lincoln's election year in colorful detail (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:53 AM PDT AP - "Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War" (Bloomsbury Press, $29), by Douglas R. Egerton: It was in the spring of 1860, an election year just a century and a half ago, that East Coast voters began talking about a dark horse — a middle-aged lawyer from Illinois. His only experience in national politics was one term in the House of Representatives.

Obama: Money alone can't solve school predicament (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:08 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama started the school week with a call for a longer school year, and said the worst-performing teachers have "got to go" if they don't improve quickly.

Obama says U.S. not in a jobless recovery (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:01 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Monday the United States must accelerate job growth, but he said the country was not experiencing a "jobless recovery" as it pulled out of a recession.

Obama: DC public schools are 'struggling' (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:42 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says his daughters couldn't get the same quality education at a Washington, D.C. public school that they currently get at their private school.

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