Saturday, October 9, 2010

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

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

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 08:40 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.

Will Dems regret focus on first-time voters? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:51 PM PDT

FILE-In this Jan. 26, 2010 file photo in Chicago, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn shakes hands with workers at Ford Motor Co's. Chicago Assembly Plant. While Democrats across the country appeared to be struggling in their election bids, Quinn 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/M. Spencer Green,file)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: …

Third-party bid shakes up Minn. race (Politico)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:23 AM PDT

Politico - Independent Tom Horner may be a spoiler, allowing Democrat Mark Dayton to win the governor's race.

2012 map takes unfamiliar shape (Politico)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:15 AM PDT

Politico - If the newest Census Bureau estimates stay close to form, President Barack Obama’s reelection roadmap could look considerably different than the one that took him to the White House in 2008.

Statewide races could tip House contests (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 01:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2010 file photo, Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich answers questions after a campaign debate in Columbus, Ohio. With just over three weeks before Nov. 2, Republicans hope strong-running statewide campaigns in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin will help them triumph in congressional races, and help them win the House. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)AP - Call it a ripple-down effect that could determine House control. The outcomes of marquee races always influence down-ballot contests on Election Day, and, this year, whether Democrats keep power or Republicans seize it could well hinge on which party prevails in several hotly contested races for governor and Senate.

President to talk jobs, small business (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 01:59 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama will offer his thoughts on the government's latest employment report after he tours a small business in suburban Washington.

Irish police arrest 9 IRA dissidents, seize arms (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:22 PM PDT

AP - Ireland's police force says its detectives have arrested nine suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents and seized weapons.

US often weighed NKorea `nuke option' (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 1951 file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, B-29 planes of the U.S. Far East Air Forces drop high-demolition bombs on Chinese troops in North Korea. Three months earlier, such Air Force bombers ran nuclear rehearsal runs over North Korea's capital. Sixty years after the start of the Korean War, recently released declassified documents have helped fill in the history of U.S. nuclear threats against North Korea over the decades. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)AP - From the 1950s' Pentagon to today's Obama administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened use of nuclear weapons against North Korea, according to declassified and other U.S. government documents released in this 60th-anniversary year of the Korean War.

Analysis: US-China ties strained by dissident (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:42 AM PDT

In this photo taken in November, 2007 and released by Liu Xiaobo's friend Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, Liu, right, poses with legal scholar Zhang Sizhi during a gathering in Beijing. Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, for using non-violence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland. The award ignited a furious response from China, which accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of violating its own principles by honoring 'a criminal.' (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - President Barack Obama's push for China to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and rising economic and trade friction could aggravate U.S. efforts to win crucial Chinese cooperation on global hot spots.

Meet the ‘loud mouth’ Republican who says he can win Hillary’s old Senate seat (Daily Caller)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:12 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Could a Republican really win Hillary Clinton’s old Senate seat in New York?

Reapportionment: Slight Population Shifts Complicate a Zero-Sum Game (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:57 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - The country's balance of population, and hence its balance of political power, continues to shift to the South and West, as it has for the past six decades.

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

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2010 file photo, Peter DeStefano answers a question while sitting in his gallery in Mount Holly, N.J. A New Jersey Republican congressional candidate criticized his Democratic opponent Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, amid mounting evidence that Democratic officials planted tea party candidate DeStefano in the race to siphon off conservative votes. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)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.

O'Donnell still a mystery to voters despite fame (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT

AP - Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell has a simple message in her campaign ads — "I'm you."
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