Friday, October 8, 2010

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Yahoo! News: Politics News

Democrats see glimmers of hope in election gloom (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2010 file photo in Los Angeles, United States Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., right, greets union members at a Labor Day Breakfast. While Democrats across the country appeared to be struggling in their election bids, Boxer and others nationwide have recently gained ground in polls. Suddenly, Democrats are seeing glimmers that maybe Election Day won't also be doomday. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File)AP - With only weeks left in the campaign, some staggering Democrats have jumped back into contention in congressional and gubernatorial races around the country, giving the party glimmers of hope that Election Day won't also be doomsday.

Reid asks Nevadans to remember his good deeds (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 11:23 AM PDT

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid greets supporters during a rally in Nevada in April 2010. New polls showing trimmed Republican leads boosted President Barack Obama's Democrats Tuesday, ahead of mid-term elections that could buckle their congressional majorities.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By John Dickerson Slate RENO, Nev. â€" It used to be that if you needed to get a divorce, you came here. Harry Reid came to Reno to stop one. Nevada voters want a split from the Senate majority leader, …

The Fast Fix: How to handle a social media crisis (The Newsroom)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:34 AM PDT

The Newsroom - In the Facebook age, every image and utterance a person makes can be documented online. But what happens when those social media mavens run for political office? Krystal Ball, a Virginia Democrat running for Congress, found out this week when …

Georgia candidate paid nearly $100K to bring Palin to rally (The Upshot)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 07:40 AM PDT

The Upshot - Karen Handel's campaign to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Georgia got a big boost when she was endorsed by Sarah Palin this summer. But it can be expensive to be a Mama Grizzly. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Aaron Gould Sheinin reports, Handel paid nearly $100,000 to bring Palin to an August rally ahead of [...]

E-mails: Vilsack hastily decided to oust Sherrod (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 10:17 AM PDT

FILE - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks during a Rural Tour stop at the Iowa State Fair, in this Aug. 19, 2009 file photo taken in Des Moines, Iowa. Vilsack was warned that he may not have the full story as he stuck by his July decision to oust Shirley Sherrod, the department worker who was wrongly accused of racism. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod pleaded with officials to hear her out after she was ousted from the USDA during a racial firestorm in July, internal e-mails show.

Christine O’Donnell won’t say whether she’ll support Mitch McConnell for Senate leader (Daily Caller)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said some nice things about Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, but when asked Thursday if O’Donnell would support him as Republican leader if she were elected, the Tea Party favorite refused to commit.

Gates downplays quoted objection to Obama adviser (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 01:00 PM PDT

Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he works well with the man set to become President Barack Obama's next national security adviser despite negative remarks attributed to him in Bob Woodward's new book.

Transport Secretary aims to save Hudson tunnel (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Reuters - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Friday said federal and New Jersey officials will review options for the Hudson River Tunnel project that the state's governor canceled a day earlier due to its high cost.

Jones never made it to the inner circle (Politico)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Politico - Jones's departure is a case study in how badly an outsider can flop within Obama's insider world.

RNC aims to counter DNC money edge (Politico)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 11:57 AM PDT

Politico - It's expanding its line of credit in an attempt to make up for a lackluster close to summer fundraising.

Hoping to cut House losses, Dems try for firewall (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2010 file photo, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats, grasping to keep control of the House as polls show Republicans dangerously well-positioned to seize it, are pouring money into roughly two-dozen districts around the country and pulling it back from others in the closing weeks before midterm elections. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)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.

Obama signs pair of intelligence bills into law (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:38 PM PDT

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, watches as President Barack Obama signs the Intel Authorization Bill, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington . (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama signed a pair of intelligence bills into law Thursday to improve oversight of sensitive spy operations and reduce the amount of threat information that is classified and kept from state and local authorities as a result.

Greenpeace: high arsenic, mercury levels in sludge (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:24 AM PDT

Dead fish, victims of the toxic red sludge that spilled Monday from a giant industrial container, in the River Marcal near Boba, Hungary, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. 'Life in the River Marcal has been extinguished,' Rescue official Tibor Dobson told The Associated Press, referring to the river's 25-mile (40-kilometer) stretch that carried the red waste from Kolontar into the Raba River and onto the Danube. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Greenpeace is warning of "surprisingly high" levels of arsenic and mercury in the red sludge that seeped out of a burst reservoir in Hungary and has devastated the surrounding area.

Vulnerable Ark. senator hints support for tax cuts (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 03:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2010 file photo, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., speaks in Hot Springs, Ark. The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it. Support for the program is turning into a kiss of death for many in Congress. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)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.

Analysis: Bleak news for Democrats in jobs report (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:24 PM PDT

President Barack Obama greets workers at Ernest Maier, a brick and masonry company, in Bladensburg, Md., Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The economic die is cast, and it's grim news for Democrats. There's nothing now that Congress or President Barack Obama can do before the November elections to jolt the nation's listless recovery.

Congressmen demand YouTube CEO ban terrorist propaganda videos from website (Daily Caller)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 02:43 PM PDT

Daily Caller - YouTube has become a veritable clearinghouse for any and every video imaginable â€" from the gross, to the poignant, to the hilarious, it's all there. But despite its mainstream appeal, YouTube also has become an outlet for jihadi propaganda and violent proselytizing.

Boehner Asks Voters to Throw Out Democrats (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 11:24 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Minority Leader John A. Boehner took the stage at a small business in his congressional district on Friday to once again deride the economic policies of the Democratic Congress and ask voters to give Republicans the chance to turn the economy around.

Angle says Reid gave Viagra to child molesters (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 01:54 PM PDT

AP - Republican Sharron Angle claims Democrat Harry Reid gave Viagra to convicted child molesters in the ugliest ad yet in Nevada's contentious U.S. Senate race.

Report: Dems planted NJ tea-party House candidate (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 01:45 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.
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