Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Republicans attack unions to hurt Democrats: analysts (AFP)
• Wis. GOP ups pressure on Dems to return and vote (AP)
• Donald Trump, Against Long Odds, Ponders 2012 Run (ContributorNetwork)
• Poll: 51 Percent of Republicans Are Birthers -- and Why it Doesn't Matter (ContributorNetwork)
• Is Senate Bill 5 Bad for Ohio? (ContributorNetwork)
• Quote Roundup: Chicago Voters on Mayoral Race (ContributorNetwork)
• US urges Kenya to resolve appointment spat (AFP)
• Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus (AP)
• Latest 99er Unemployment Extension Blocked by House Republicans (ContributorNetwork)
• Uganda's Museveni cruises to re-election (AFP)
• Schumer: In recess, Senate working on budget issue (AP)
• China cracks down after calls for protests (AFP)
• Special election win tilts La. state Senate to GOP (AP)
• Ann Romney's Survival Instinct (The Daily Beast)

Republicans attack unions to hurt Democrats: analysts (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 04:22 PM PST AFP - Republican attempts to disband public workers unions in Wisconsin and other key states are part of a broad strategy to undermine US President Barak Obama and his Democrats at the ballot box, analysts said.

Wis. GOP ups pressure on Dems to return and vote (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:06 PM PST AP - Wisconsin Republicans on Sunday upped the pressure on Democrats who fled to Illinois to return home and vote on an anti-union bill, with the governor calling them obstructionists and a GOP lawmaker threatening to convene without them.

Donald Trump, Against Long Odds, Ponders 2012 Run (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:05 PM PST ContributorNetwork - Donald Trump is emerging, in theory anyway, as a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012. It would seem that a serious Trump candidacy is a pipe dream at best.

Poll: 51 Percent of Republicans Are Birthers -- and Why it Doesn't Matter (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:05 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The birther debate is raging once more.

Is Senate Bill 5 Bad for Ohio? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 02:04 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Is Senate Bill 5 bad for Ohio? That exact question is being debated over dinner tables and by large crowds converging upon the state house in Columbus. A third hearing is tentatively scheduled for this week with a vote projected to follow soon after. The proposed law is being touted by public employees as a "union busting" measure. However, the law will reduce and not eliminate the organization's hold on employers and workers. Currently, public employees do not have the choice to opt out of membership and have dues deducted from paychecks without recourse.

Quote Roundup: Chicago Voters on Mayoral Race (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 01:44 PM PST ContributorNetwork - When Chicagoans go to the polls Tuesday, many consider it a chance at redemption. Among the mayoral candidates seeking to reverse Chicago's recent misfortunes are Rahm Emanuel, Gery Chico, Miguel Del Valle, Carol Moseley Braun, William "Dock" Walls and Patricia Van Pelt Watkins.

US urges Kenya to resolve appointment spat (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 12:36 PM PST AFP - The United States urged Kenya's leaders on Sunday to resolve a judicial appointment row that has rattled the shaky coalition government formed in 2008 to end deadly post-election violence.

Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 11:24 AM PST AP - Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms.

Latest 99er Unemployment Extension Blocked by House Republicans (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 11:21 AM PST ContributorNetwork - California Rep. Barbara Lee's effort to get 14 more weeks of unemployment benefits added to the Tier 1 category of extension benefits currently available to the qualifying jobless was blocked Thursday from getting to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote.

Uganda's Museveni cruises to re-election (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:23 AM PST AFP - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni cruised to a new five-year term Sunday, taking more than two thirds of the vote in elections the opposition said were marred by fraud.

Schumer: In recess, Senate working on budget issue (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 07:55 AM PST AP - A leading Democrat says Senate officials are working behind the scenes on a budget proposal to keep the government running.

China cracks down after calls for protests (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 04:07 AM PST AFP - China has detained top activists and deployed heavy security in large cities after the launch of a web campaign calling for protests echoing popular uprisings in the Arab world, campaigners said on Sunday.

Special election win tilts La. state Senate to GOP (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 12:53 AM PST AP - A Republican candidate late Saturday won a special election for a Louisiana state Senate seat, according to unofficial returns, a result that if certified would give the GOP control of the Senate for the first time since Reconstruction.

Ann Romney's Survival Instinct (The Daily Beast) Posted: 19 Feb 2011 05:38 PM PST The Daily Beast - She's battled cancer and has multiple sclerosis, but no one seems more eager to launch Mitt Romney's next presidential campaign than his wife—maybe not even Mitt.

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