Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama both rallies, scolds Dems in campaign trip (AP)
• Obama at WI campaign rally: 'Change is gonna come' (AP)
• Obama asks students to stick with him this fall (AP)
• Ethics panel faces partisan split over trial dates (AP)
• Pa. candidate changes story on helping felon (AP)
• Democrats accused of "stalling" in ethics trials (Reuters)
• In tour, Obama tries to smash Democratic lethargy (AFP)
• Obama surprises students in Wis., diners in NM (AP)
• Financial regulators to trot out reform plans (Reuters)
• Obama tells questioner he's 'Christian by choice' (AP)
• Feingold reverses course, will appear with Obama (AP)
• Obama: Fox has a 'destructive' view (Politico)
• Obama urges Democrat voters to shake off lethargy (Reuters)
• Obama urges Dems to ‘buck up’ and stop complaining, but will tough love turn out votes? (The Upshot)
• Obama answers the question: Why are you a Christian? (Reuters)
• One-third of ballots will be cast before Election Day (The Upshot)
• Hoyer: House leadership still considering vote on Bush tax cuts before election (Daily Caller)
• WH: Obama calls Carter, ex-president doing 'great' (AP)
• Maes files: Police chief knew of gambling ring (AP)
• Chavez throws down gauntlet to Venezuela opposition (Reuters)

Obama both rallies, scolds Dems in campaign trip (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - Buck up. Stop whining. And get to work.

Obama at WI campaign rally: 'Change is gonna come' (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:48 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is urging college students at a Wisconsin campaign rally to stick with him and vote in the Nov. 2 elections, promising that "change is gonna come."

Obama asks students to stick with him this fall (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is telling young voters they must not become discouraged and let Republicans retake control of the federal government in the Nov. 2 elections.

Ethics panel faces partisan split over trial dates (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - The House ethics committee split along party lines Tuesday as Republicans demanded pre-election trials for two prominent Democrats, Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters.

Pa. candidate changes story on helping felon (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:40 PM PDT AP - A former federal prosecutor running for Congress has dropped his claim that he had permission from the Justice Department to serve as a personal reference for a convicted felon seeking a casino license.

Democrats accused of "stalling" in ethics trials (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:23 PM PDT Reuters - All five Republicans on a congressional ethics committee on Tuesday called on the Democratic-led panel to "stop stalling" and hold public trials for two Democrats before the November 2 congressional election.

In tour, Obama tries to smash Democratic lethargy (AFP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday told lethargic Democrats dreading a mid-term election mauling to "buck up," seeking to recreate the energy and heady aura of his 2008 White House race.

Obama surprises students in Wis., diners in NM (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is making time for unscheduled campaign-style stops in a day already packed with events in three states.

Financial regulators to trot out reform plans (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. regulators racing to implement new financial market policing powers will appear together before a Senate committee this week to face questions likely tinged with election-season politics.

Obama tells questioner he's 'Christian by choice' (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama, in a rare discussion about his religious beliefs, described himself on Tuesday as a "Christian by choice" who arrived at his faith in adulthood because "the precepts of Jesus Christ" helped him envision the kind of life he wanted to lead.

Feingold reverses course, will appear with Obama (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:22 PM PDT AP - Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold says on Twitter that he will be appearing with President Barack Obama at his Wisconsin rally after all.

Obama: Fox has a 'destructive' view (Politico) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:15 PM PDT Politico - President Obama tells Rolling Stone in an interview that Fox News has a political perspective that is “destructive” to the country.

Obama urges Democrat voters to shake off lethargy (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:05 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Tuesday that it is "inexcusable" for Democratic voters to stand on the sidelines in November 2 congressional elections and urged them to shake off their lethargy.

Obama urges Dems to ‘buck up’ and stop complaining, but will tough love turn out votes? (The Upshot) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:04 PM PDT The Upshot - President Obama is mad as heck, and he's not going to take it anymore â€" not from Democrats, anyway. With his party at risk of losing control of Congress in November, Obama is pushing back against his Democratic critics, telling Rolling Stone magazine in an interview published Tuesday that it's "inexcusable" for Democrats not to [...]

Obama answers the question: Why are you a Christian? (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama spoke openly about his faith on Tuesday, describing himself as a "Christian by choice" while reiterating his belief in the importance of religious tolerance.

One-third of ballots will be cast before Election Day (The Upshot) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:43 PM PDT The Upshot - It's true that Election Day is still five weeks away -- but in some races, pivotal balloting is already taking place. Measures to increase early voting in the United States have worked so well that this year, at least one-third of all general election ballots will be cast before  Nov. 2, the New York Times [...]

Hoyer: House leadership still considering vote on Bush tax cuts before election (Daily Caller) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:39 PM PDT Daily Caller - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that Democrats were still considering holding a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts before the November midterm elections.

WH: Obama calls Carter, ex-president doing 'great' (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:34 PM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama has spoken with Jimmy Carter following the ex-president's hospitalization in Cleveland.

Maes files: Police chief knew of gambling ring (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:18 PM PDT AP - Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has released decades-old personnel files amid recent questions about his law enforcement career in Kansas in the 1980s — records that support his claim that his boss did know that he was investigating a gambling ring and meeting with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

Chavez throws down gauntlet to Venezuela opposition (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:01 PM PDT Reuters - President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela's newly empowered opposition would not be able to block his socialist legislative program and challenged them to go to the voters immediately if they wanted to unseat him.

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