Sen. DeMint: 'We're trying to run out the clock' on omnibus

Brazil begins voting in elections
AFP Brazil began Voting on Sunday to choose a successor to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with polls suggesting his chosen Candidate and former chief minister, Dilma Rousseff, would sweep the election. Around 136 million voters were being called out to cast ballots, a compulsory civic duty in Brazil. Voters will also choose federal and state deputies, state Governors, and two-thirds of the Senate. The first Polling Stations opened in Fernando do Noronha, an archipelago in the Atlantic...

La. official known for criticizing BP and federal government over spill cruises to re-election
POINTE A LA HACHE, LA. — A local official who emerged as a leading critic of efforts to clean up the Oil spilled from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has easily won re-election as president of his coastal Louisiana parish. With all precincts reporting, Republican Billy Nungesser had 71 percent of the vote Saturday in Plaquemines Parish. Democrat Amos Cormier received 22 percent and independent Benny Rousselle, a former Plaquemines president, had 6 percent. Nungesser, 51, became a...

Mass. gov. hopefuls to weigh in on biotech issues
B OSTON — Three of the four Candidates for Governor are scheduled to participate in a forum that will focus on the importance of biotechnology and the life sciences to the state’s struggling economy. Republican Charles Baker, Independent Tim Cahill, and Democratic Incumbent Gov. Deval Patrick have been invited to participate in the Monday forum sponsored by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. The afternoon forum, open to members of the council, will focus on the...

O'Donnell vows to control her political message
WILMINGTON, Del. — After nearly disappearing from public view following her upset victory in Delaware's GOP Primary, Senate Candidate Christine O'Donnell re-emerged Friday vowing to control her political message and saying she is not concerned with how the national media portrays her. In an interview with The Associated Press after opening her Wilmington headquarters, O'Donnell denied she had been ducking the media or had gone into hiding. Instead, she said the Campaign took some time to...

Bosnia divided for election
AFP With the top Candidates fiercely at odds over Bosnia's future, voters cast ballots on Sunday in Elections likely to further entrench their nation's ethnic divisions and threaten possible EU entry. Some three million voters in a country uneasily split between Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats are choosing from 8000 Candidates for the central and several regional parliaments, the Bosnian Serb presidency and the federal presidency. Fifteen years after the ethnic war sparked by the breakup of...

Visions of a new frontier
It will be the first federal Election Day since 1944 — when Lt. John F. Kennedy was in his final weeks of Navy service — that has not featured a member of the famed political family on a ballot or seated in constitutional office. For retiring Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, it will be the first time in years he won’t have to worry about being reelected. The Rhode Island Democrat will also be focused on another milestone just a few Days beyond. On Nov. 7, Patrick and Caroline...

Former revolutionary set to be Brazil's next president?
Sao Paulo — Brazilians vote Sunday in national Elections that could see 62-year-old former Marxist rebel Dilma Rousseff become the country's first female president, succeeding her popular ally and mentor. An Economist by training, Rousseff represents the ruling Workers Party and is the hand-chosen successor of outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who led Brazil to unparalleled Economic Growth and increasing political clout on the global stage. She is seeking a strong...

Richmond Features Obama in First Ad
Louisiana state Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is running to become the state’s 2nd district representative in a race against Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao (R), will feature President Barack Obama in his first General Election campaign commercial.

Brazil set to pick Lula's successor
Opinion Polls suggest that Dilma Rouseff, the Candidate from Lula's Workers' Party and the president's former Chief of Staff, will win Sunday's election, but some obsevers have said that she could need a second round run-off to defeat Jose Serra, her main challenger. Rouseff needs more than 50 per cent of the vote in the first round to avoid facing her closest challenger in another Poll on October 31.  Lula has dominated campaigning despite being barred by the constitution from running...

Fox boasts that "no one covers" elections "like Fox News" ... but that's nothing to be proud of
A promotional ad currently circulating on Fox News Channel touts the idea that "no one" is covering the 2010 election "like Fox News": For a change, this is actually an honest claim by FOX. Nobody is covering the election like they are. Here are a few ways in which FOX isn't covering the election like other News outlets, but they may not be the reasons FOX's PR department had in mind when they put this piece together: "No one" has 5 possible Republican Presidential Candidates on the Payroll...

Ex-rebel ahead as Brazilians go to polls
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CNN) -- Brazilian voters head to the polls Sunday in a General Election that spans across all levels of government, from the presidency to local offices. The spotlight will be on the presidential race, where nine Candidates are vying for the nation's top job. Polls indicate that former Marxist guerrilla Dilma Rousseff is in the lead, positioning her to become the country's first female president. Rousseff is the hand-picked successor of President Luis Inacio Lula da...

Split or united? Bosnians divided as they vote
With the top Candidates fiercely at odds over Bosnia's future, voters cast ballots Sunday in Elections likely to further entrench their nation's ethnic divisions and threaten possible EU entry. Some 3 million voters in a country uneasily split between Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats are choosing from 8,000 Candidates for the central and several regional parliaments, the Bosnian Serb presidency and the federal presidency. The postwar deal split the country into two highly autonomous regions one...

Race on to fund Senate campaign blitz
WASHINGTON -- With just under a month left until Election Day, the three major Candidates for U.S. Senate in Alaska are furiously raising money to have enough cash to buy the kind of advertising they need to get the attention of voters. Click to enlarge Scott McAdams Click to enlarge Joe Miller Click to enlarge Lisa Murkowski

Rasmussen Ratings 10/1/2010 All Races
21 House races move toward the Republicans. Read the Rasmussen report for your local races, including the Senate and Governorships. Excerpt: As Election Day nears, more of the House Election picture comes into focus. While our overall view of the level of Republican gains remains unchanged at +47 seats, we are changing the Ratings of many key races as the list of endangered seats, and their relative degrees of vulnerability, becomes clear. This week we are changing the Ratings of 21 House...

Latvian TV exit poll shows center-right government winning parliamentary election, EU
RIGA, Latvia -   Latvian TV Exit Poll shows center-right government winning parliamentary election.

Election Preview: Northern Ky.'s 4th Congressional District
WASHINGTON The contest in Northern Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District pits a well-funded, conservative Incumbent against a little-known, considerably more progressive Iraq War Veteran. U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Hebron, seems to be sailing toward a fourth term with $1.1 million raised as of the June Campaign Finance filing deadline. Much of that money was donated by health professionals and the Insurance Industry. Meanwhile, Democratic challenger John Waltz, a political newcomer from...

Election Preview: Eastern Ky.'s 5th Congressional District
WASHINGTON The race to represent Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District is a repeat match between a politically powerful Republican Incumbent with a substantial war chest and a Democratic political neophyte with meager coffers and virtually no financial support from his party. Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Somerset, known for steering Federal money toward projects in his District, may well be on his way to a 16th term. Rogers, 72, had raised more than $500,000 as of the June...

Paging Samuel Johnson
This famous quote was issued with people like Bernie Sanders in mind. Alternative title of this post (with apologies to Glenn Reynolds): “They Told Me That If I Voted For John McCain, Our Political Class Would Act Like a Bunch of McCarthyites . . . And They Were Right! “

Brazil's Silva seeks to cement legacy in election
Sao Paulo -   The emcee's voice begins rising to a crescendo rivaling that of any Las Vegas ring announcer, a yell driving through a dense tropical rain that concisely explains what Brazil's adored president means to his nation. "He is the man who turned our dreams into reality!" the host screams into the night, his words ringing in the ears of 10,000 People at the last election rally the leader would attend. "President. Luiz. Inacio. Lula. Da Silvaaaaaaaaaa!" The crowd goes wild on...

Iran Wins Iraqi Elections 7 Months Later
This development would forestall Washington’s earlier plans to try to shoehorn into power the anti-Iranian ex-Baathist Iyad Allawi and his largely Sunni-supported Iraqiya party. In recent weeks, since the advent of a new US ambassador in Baghdad and a new commanding general, there have been rumors that the Obama Administration had decided to support Incumbent Nuri al-Maliki and to give up on any hope of installing Allawi or giving him control over Iraq’s security forces, which had...

Obama talks green, GOP talks freeze
Wind, solar and other Clean Energy technologies produce jobs and are essential for the country's environment and economy, President Barack Obama said in promoting his administration's efforts. The president used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, a month away from congressional Elections, to charge Republicans with wanting to scrap incentives for such projects. "That's what's at stake in this debate," the president said. "We can go back to the failed Energy policies that profited...

The Uncanny Accuracy of Polling Averages*, Part 3: This Time, It's Different?
In Part 1 , I explored why our intuition may mislead is when it comes to forecasting the outcomes of Elections — for a variety of reasons, we may tend to assume that there is more uncertainty in the forecast than their really is. In Part 2 , I demonstrated, by contrast, that a simple average of polls has performed very well over the past six election cycles in determining the winner of the contest. For example, Senate andgubernatorialcandidates who have trailed by 6 to 9 points in...

Why we march and vote
The most crucial Midterm Elections in our nation's history are barely a month away. What's at stake? The future of the changes our country voted for in 2008 with the Election of President Obama. The message then was clear: the voters had enough of the Right-wing policies attacking working people, enough of endless war, Racism, environmental destruction, hate and division. But the forces of reaction and their supporters on Wall Street, in the Right-wing Talk Shows and networks are...