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Florida's I-4 corridor: The mother road of swing voters

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:17 AM PST

Road TripInterstate 4 bisects the center of America's most notorious swing state, running 132 miles from  Tampa, through Orlando and ending near Daytona Beach. Fifty-five percent of Florida voters live in the I-4  corridor. It is often where elections are decided in a state that has frequently switched sides, voting [...]


In final days of Obama campaign, little drama, plenty of passion

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 12:48 PM PST

Obama 2012Win or lose Tuesday, the next two days will be the last President Barack Obama ever spends campaigning for public office, and he's coming to terms with it. "I've known him for 20 years. ... I've never seen him more exhilarated than he is right now," campaign strategist David Axelrod told a group of reporters [...]


Housing crisis looms as U.S. storm victims battle cold

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 02:14 PM PST

A man plants a wind tattered American flag on a section of damaged boardwalk from superstorm Sandy in the Rockaways neighborhood of the Queens borough of New YorkA housing crisis loomed in New York City as victims of superstorm Sandy struggled on Sunday without heat in near-freezing temperatures, and officials fretted displaced residents would not be able to vote in Tuesday's presidential election. Fuel shortages and power outages lingered nearly a week after one of the worst storms in U.S. history flooded homes in coastal neighborhoods, leaving many without heat and in need of shelter in New York and New Jersey. ...


Obama focuses on turnout, Romney on Pennsylvania

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 10:25 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney poses with children wearing shirts which spell out "Romney" as he campaigns at the Iowa Events Center, in Des Moines, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Just two days from the finish, President Barack Obama's campaign is mobilizing a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at carrying the Democrat to victory, as Republican Mitt Romney makes a late play for votes in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania.


Romney campaign: Sandy didn’t curb momentum

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:26 AM PST

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Des Moines, IowaMitt Romney's campaign is rejecting the suggestion made by a leading Republican official that Superstorm Sandy has stalled the Republican presidential nominee's momentum heading into Election Day. In an interview with CNN's "State of the Union," former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said, "The hurricane is what broke Romney's momentum. I don't think there is any [...]


Northeast power outages from Sandy finally fall below 2 million

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 02:14 PM PST

New York And New Jersey Continue To Recover From Superstorm SandyThe number of homes and businesses still without power nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S. Northeast fell to 1.9 million on Sunday morning, down from 2.5 million the previous afternoon, although a quarter of New Jersey and almost a tenth of New York remained in the dark, the Department of Energy said. As of Sunday, power had been restored to critical infrastructure and preparations were being made to ensure polling places would have power on Election Day. ...


Bill Clinton, Paul Ryan square off in Iowa op-eds

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 08:41 AM PST

Republican vice presidential candidate Ryan attends a campaign event in MansfieldWith President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney vying for eleventh-hour undecided voters in the battleground state of Iowa, former president and Obama surrogate Bill Clinton and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan each penned op-eds published by the Des Moines Register on Sunday outlining the cases for their respective candidates. "This election is [...]


#HashOut on Location: What's the best reason to vote Romney?

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 02:51 AM PST

Republican presidential nominee Romney speaks at a campaign rally in NewingtonFor day two of Yahoo!'s HashOut on Location in Ohio, we drove from Cleveland to Columbus. On Friday, we asked people: What is the best reason to vote for Barack Obama on Election Day? On Saturday, we switched gears and asked: What is the best reason to vote for Mitt Romney on Election Day? Saturday [...]


Bomb shakes Damascus, opposition holds unity talks

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 03:14 PM PST

Damage on the labour union building is pictured after an explosion in DamascusA bomb exploded near army and security compounds in Damascus on Sunday, Syrian television said, and fractured opposition groups seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad began unity talks abroad to win international respect and arms supplies. The 50-kilogram (110-pound) bomb, near a large hotel in a heavily guarded district, was described by state media as an attack by "terrorists" - the government's term for insurgents in the 19-month-old uprising against Assad. ...


New oil workers key bloc in all-important ND Senate race

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST

In this Oct. 29, 2012 photo, Patty Caldwell, right, a former Oregon resident and owner of a cleaning business in New Hradec, N.D., and her daughter, Amanda Caldwell, who also works in the business, stand outside the Dunn County courthouse in Manning, N.D., shortly after they voted early for the Nov. 6 election. The Caldwells moved to North Dakota because of available work in the state's oil-producing region, and they are voting in North Dakota for the first time this year. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)Shirley Meyer grew up on a ranch north of Dickinson, N.D., and has represented her rural district in the state House for a decade. But when she knocks on doors in her re-election campaign, she sometimes feels like a stranger in her own home.


Early voting extended at Florida site hit with bomb scare

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 02:30 PM PST

Florida Governor Scott speaks during an interview in New YorkMIAMI (Reuters) - Early voting was extended on Sunday at a central Florida polling site that was disrupted a day earlier by a bomb scare, and voters were allowed to cast absentee ballots in person in several other counties that had been plagued by long lines. Saturday was the last day for early voting in Florida, where polls showed Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney running neck-and-neck. But Orange County Elections Supervisor Bill Cowles reopened the polls at one site, a library in the Orlando suburb of Winter Park, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. ...


Forget war on women: Men’s vote could decide White House

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 07:08 AM PST

In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, members of the Native American Voters Alliance mark their ballots at an early voting center in Albuquerque, N.M. NAVA, the National Congress of American Indians and other groups have been working to turn around low voter participation that has persisted in Indian Country for decades. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)A barrage of attention from the presidential candidates and the news media has been paid to "waitress moms," "Walmart women" and other exhibits of the female species this election, with pundits wondering whether the female gender gap, which works in the president's favor, will carry him over the top on Election Day. But the focus [...]


Abortion politics of 2012: Something God intended?

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 06:39 AM PST

FILE -This May 8, 2012 file photo shows then-Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock speaking to supporters in Indianapolis after he defeated incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. in the primary. Fresh signs that Democrats could snatch Indiana's Senate seat from the Republicans make it distinctly harder for the GOP to seize the Senate majority in Tuesday's election. The latest survey out of Indiana Friday showed Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly leading Republican Richard Mourdock by 11 percentage points after the GOP candidate's awkward debate comment last week that pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended." (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)Happy birthday, abortion! You've bedeviled philosophers, politicians and doctors for 25 centuries! That's right: Since around the 5th-century B.C., when the Hippocratic Oath for physicians first contained a clause about abortion, we've driven ourselves insane over the implications of a simple, common, ancient medical procedure.


New York magazine publishes powerful Sandy cover

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 06:49 AM PST

New York magazineLike millions of other Con Ed customers, New York magazine's offices in lower Manhattan were without power last week in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. On Tuesday, they set up an "improvised newsroom" in midtown: "32 editors, photo editors, designers, and production specialists squeezed around a conference-room table, down the length of which snaked a [...]


Romney camp hoping for a systematic polling bias in Ohio

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 06:05 AM PST

Romney pledges bipartisanship in final pushIn the last two days, six new polls of Ohio voters have been released, five of which favor President Barack Obama, by leads of 6 points, 4 points, 4 points, 3 points and 2 points. The last reports a tie, from right-leaning Rasmussen, which gave former Gov. Mitt Romney a 2-point advantage last week. Obama [...]


Democrat Pelosi focused on U.S. election, mum on her future

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 08:16 AM PST

House Minority Leader Pelosi addresses the Democratic National Convention in CharlotteWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Normally outspoken Nancy Pelosi is mum about her future. She won't say if she will step aside as Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives if her party fails, as expected, to win back the chamber from Republicans in Tuesday's elections. Pelosi recently fanned speculation about her future by scheduling House Democratic leadership elections later than many anticipated, after the November 22 Thanksgiving Day holiday, rather than at the outset of the lame-duck session of the House that begins a week after the November 6 election. ...


As 2012 campaign nears finish, 2016 questions lurk

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:54 AM PST

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gestures as he speaks during a campaign event at Harrisburg International airport, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 in Middletown, Pa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Relieved to see the long, costly 2012 presidential race end? The 2016 campaign is closer than you think.


U.S. soldier accused of Afghan rampage faces evidence hearing

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 08:18 AM PST

(Blank Headline Received)SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier accused of gunning down 16 Afghan villagers in a drunken rampage will face the military version of a preliminary hearing on Monday to determine if there is sufficient evidence to send him to a court martial. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who could face the death penalty if convicted, is accused of walking off his base under cover of darkness and opening fire on civilians in their homes in at least two villages in March. ...


Coast Guard: Eight fuel tankers anchored in New York Harbor

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 08:06 AM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight fuel-carrying tankers are anchored offshore in the New York Harbor with traffic restrictions still in place after super storm Sandy pummeled the port and clogged it with debris, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday. Four of the tankers were carrying petroleum products and the other four had crude oil onboard, according to the Coast Guard. Some of the tankers are transferring fuel to light barges that can easily enter the port and deliver supplies to working terminals. ...

Photos: Swing state voters share their stories

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 06:00 PM PDT

Photos: Swing state voters share their storiesSupporters look on as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally at the Eastern Iowa Airport on October 24, 2012 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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