Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Brown campaign apologizes for offensive comment (AP)
• Angle: Reid helped child molesters get Viagra (AP)
• Report: Dems planted NJ tea-party House candidate (AP)
• Will the Democrats regret focus on first-time voters? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
• Rory Reid fights to gain traction in NV gov race (AP)
• Hoping to cut House losses, Dems try for firewall (AP)
• National security shuffle: Jones out, Donilon in (AP)
• Cuomo aide: Affair claims baseless in NY gov race (AP)
• Obama calls Swedish prime minister after election (AFP)
• After complaint, ID activist's sign gets makeover (AP)
• Vulnerable Ark. senator hints support for tax cuts (AP)
• Obama signs defense trade deals with UK, Australia (Reuters)
• Mass. governor race turns into courtroom thriller (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Conn. Senate ad hits WWE on lobbying (AP)
• Ex-client sues GOP candidate for Minn. governor (AP)
• 2010 North Carolina's 11th District race: Heath Shuler likely to dominate election (The Newsroom)
• Crossroads says IRS probes into its tax status are premature (Daily Caller)
• RI Dem Caprio blasts Chafee on taxes in gov race (AP)
• 2010 Washington 8th District House election: DelBene mounts strong campaign against vulnerable incumbent Reichert (The Newsroom)
• Jones never made it to the inner circle (Politico)

Brown campaign apologizes for offensive comment (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - The campaign of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has apologized to Republican rival Meg Whitman after an aide referred to her in a recorded voicemail message as a "whore" because of her attempt to curry favor with a law enforcement union.

Angle: Reid helped child molesters get Viagra (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - In the ugliest ad so far in Nevada's contentious Senate race, Republican Sharron Angle accuses Democrat Harry Reid of helping to put Viagra in the hands of child molesters.

Report: Dems planted NJ tea-party House candidate (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - A New Jersey Republican congressional candidate criticized his Democratic opponent Friday amid mounting evidence that Democratic officials planted a tea-party candidate in the race to siphon off conservative votes.

Will the Democrats regret focus on first-time voters? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:51 PM PDT Exclusive to Yahoo! News - Each week until the election, Slate's John Dickerson is trying to answer questions from the week's political news. He welcomes readers to weigh in with answers â€" or with more political questions â€" at slatepolitics@gmail.com. Here are this week's questions: …

Rory Reid fights to gain traction in NV gov race (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:44 PM PDT AP - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid has dumped his famous last name, enlisted charismatic former President Bill Clinton as a political wingman and relentlessly attacked his opponent. None of it seems to be working. The son of Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid trails heavily in recent polls while his father's political dogfight to retain his Senate seat makes national headlines.

Hoping to cut House losses, Dems try for firewall (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:44 PM PDT AP - Struggling to build a firewall against a Republican takeover, congressional Democrats are pouring money into roughly two dozen tight races around the country in the campaign's closing weeks while pulling it back from others where their chances seem slimmer.

National security shuffle: Jones out, Donilon in (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:44 PM PDT AP - Gen. James Jones, the gruff-talking military man President Barack Obama drafted as his national security adviser, announced Friday he was quitting after a tenure marked by ambitious foreign policy changes and undercurrents of corrosive turf battles.

Cuomo aide: Affair claims baseless in NY gov race (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:25 PM PDT AP - A top aide to New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has denied suggestions by Republican opponent Carl Paladino that Cuomo had an extramarital affair.

Obama calls Swedish prime minister after election (AFP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:17 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama on Friday called new Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to congratulate him on his election win and to discuss the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and allies to Europe.

After complaint, ID activist's sign gets makeover (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - The men running a giant electronic billboard in Idaho, made famous by a libertarian curmudgeon before his death last month, have changed its message to bring it in line with campaign laws.

Vulnerable Ark. senator hints support for tax cuts (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Friday that she's open to extending tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration beyond the middle-class cuts that President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress want to maintain.

Obama signs defense trade deals with UK, Australia (Reuters) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:55 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama signed defense industry trade agreements on Friday with close allies Britain and Australia, the White House said.

Mass. governor race turns into courtroom thriller (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:44 PM PDT AP - A hard-fought Massachusetts gubernatorial race has morphed into a courtroom thriller, complete with charges of espionage, conspiracy and subterfuge.

APNewsBreak: Conn. Senate ad hits WWE on lobbying (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:42 PM PDT AP - Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal is launching a new TV ad that accuses his Republican rival, former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, of working to kill steroid and drug testing laws in various states.

Ex-client sues GOP candidate for Minn. governor (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:40 PM PDT AP - It's a late-campaign distraction Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer vigorously tried to head off, even to the point of enlisting a private investigator.

2010 North Carolina's 11th District race: Heath Shuler likely to dominate election (The Newsroom) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:39 PM PDT The Newsroom - He says he has fought to protect against the sale of national forests while helping keep tourism in the district and protecting nature, specifically the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, much of which is in his district. He is supportive of commonsense forestry management, he says, and alternative energy programs that would create new jobs in the area.

Crossroads says IRS probes into its tax status are premature (Daily Caller) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT Daily Caller - American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-backed group that has stepped into this election cycle and will play with as much money as the Chamber of Commerce and the big unions (about $50 million), has come under fire from Democrats for not disclosing its donors.

RI Dem Caprio blasts Chafee on taxes in gov race (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:59 PM PDT AP - Rhode Island Democratic candidate for governor Frank Caprio on Friday criticized his independent rival Lincoln Chafee over Chafee's acknowledgment that his old Senate campaign committee of $18,400 in back taxes and fees due to a misunderstanding of tax regulations by his campaign treasurers.

2010 Washington 8th District House election: DelBene mounts strong campaign against vulnerable incumbent Reichert (The Newsroom) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:46 PM PDT The Newsroom - Reichert was appointed to the office of Kings County sheriff in 1997 and was elected to a second four-year term in 2001.

Jones never made it to the inner circle (Politico) Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:41 PM PDT Politico - The departure of National Security Adviser James Jones is a case study in how badly an outsider can flop within the insider’s world of Barack Obama’s West Wing.

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