Yahoo! News: Elections

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• New ad: Obama says GOP wants no checks on Wall St (AP)
• Ohio congressman leaves rally as wife gives birth (AP)
• Obama warns of progress reversal if GOP wins (AP)
• Obama fires up voters at Chicago rally (AP)
• Conn. wrestling fans: We're no lock for McMahon (AP)
• Comedians' pre-election rally throngs Washington (Reuters)
• Democrats, GOP close in Nevada early votes (AP)
• Bill Clinton stumps for Ohio governor (AP)
• Top Mass. gubernatorial candidates debate change (AP)
• In election's shadow, rally draws laughs, activism (AP)
• In Ark., Lincoln tries to emphasize moderate stand (AP)
• Boozman, Lincoln optimistic as Ark. election nears (AP)
• Candidates making late pushes across Indiana (AP)
• In Oregon governor race, it's all down to turnout (AP)
• Amid bitter US election, liberal comics hold rally for sanity (AFP)
• Palin: Vote for Raese, leave Manchin as governor (AP)
• Kentucky 2010 election voter guide (associatedcontent)

New ad: Obama says GOP wants no checks on Wall St (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:56 PM PDT AP - Democrats are raising the specter in a new campaign ad just days before the election of a Republican push to make Wall Street less accountable and cut record amounts of education funding.

Ohio congressman leaves rally as wife gives birth (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:55 PM PDT AP - Ohio Rep. John Boccieri ran offstage Saturday during a speech by Bill Clinton after the congressman received word that his pregnant wife had gone into labor.

Obama warns of progress reversal if GOP wins (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama made a final-weekend plea to his hometown supporters to defy expectations and tamp down a Republican tide that many people expect to crest in Tuesday's elections.

Obama fires up voters at Chicago rally (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:49 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is telling supporters to go to the polls themselves and get others there as well.

Conn. wrestling fans: We're no lock for McMahon (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Connecticut fans of World Wrestling Entertainment say Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon's ties to the company won't guarantee their votes on Election Day.

Comedians' pre-election rally throngs Washington (Reuters) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT Reuters - Two of America's best-known television comedians drew tens of thousands of people to a rally on Saturday that was part variety show, part Halloween celebration and part political rally to call for common sense before Tuesday's congressional elections.

Democrats, GOP close in Nevada early votes (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - Nevada Democrats and their union allies appear to have blunted a surge of Republican enthusiasm in early voting, confirming a close race between Republican tea party favorite Sharron Angle and Majority Leader Harry Reid, figures showed Saturday.

Bill Clinton stumps for Ohio governor (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:40 PM PDT AP - Campaigning in the heart of Ohio's football country, former President Bill Clinton on Saturday compared the sport to politics as he tried to save the Democratic governor's job.

Top Mass. gubernatorial candidates debate change (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:28 PM PDT AP - The leading Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates agreed Saturday on a single point: The state will take a different direction if the other one is elected.

In election's shadow, rally draws laughs, activism (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:08 PM PDT AP - In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a "sanity" rally poking fun at the nation's ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.

In Ark., Lincoln tries to emphasize moderate stand (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:07 PM PDT AP - Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln on Saturday said her status as a moderate Democrat is even more valuable in a divided Washington as she and Republican challenger John Boozman expressed optimism days before voters decide whether Lincoln can keep her job.

Boozman, Lincoln optimistic as Ark. election nears (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:25 PM PDT AP - Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Republican challenger John Boozman are expressing optimism in the final days of their fight for Lincoln's Senate seat in Arkansas.

Candidates making late pushes across Indiana (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:19 PM PDT AP - Candidates are crisscrossing Indiana on the last weekend before Election Day, pushing to get supporters to the polls and making some of their final arguments to undecided voters.

In Oregon governor race, it's all down to turnout (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:07 PM PDT AP - Democrat John Kitzhaber and Republican Chris Dudley have been in a dead heat in Oregon for weeks in a governor's race about fresh perspectives versus experience. Polls and the candidates say it's still a dead heat just days ahead of Tuesday's election.

Amid bitter US election, liberal comics hold rally for sanity (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:07 PM PDT AFP - Tens of thousands of people streamed into the US capital Saturday for a rally hosted by liberal comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, billed as an antidote to the ugly political mood dividing America three days before mid-term elections.

Palin: Vote for Raese, leave Manchin as governor (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 01:18 PM PDT AP - Sarah Palin says Democrat Joe Manchin is a good governor — but she says West Virginia voters should keep him in the governor's mansion and out of the U.S. Senate.

Kentucky 2010 election voter guide (associatedcontent) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 01:17 PM PDT associatedcontent - The Kentucky State Board of Elections will be running Kentucky's midterm election on Nov. 2. At stake in the Bluegrass State are the races for U.S. Senate and all of the House of Representative seats.

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