2012年11月5日星期一

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My plea to the undecided: Stay home!

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:12 PM PST

Voters take advantage of the first day of early voting at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office in NorwalkYahoo! News columnist Jeff Greenfield explains why he thinks some people just shouldn't vote.


Nor'easter threatens battered East Coast

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 02:06 PM PST

Laura DiPasquale sorts through bags of possessions that volunteers removed from her home in Point Pleasant Beach N.J. on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. DiPasquale is frantically looking through them to see if well-meaning volunteers discarded anything she intended to keep before a second storm hits the shore on Wednesday, raising the possibility of renewed flooding and damage. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)A week after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast, wiping out entire communities, residents were bracing for yet another potentially damaging storm.


War on poverty? Why campaigns don't talk about the poor

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:32 AM PST

Obama, Romney Clash Over Status of Forces Agreement in IraqA presidential campaign, it would seem, is not the best time to have a comprehensive debate about poverty in America.


Romney targets Ohio, Pennsylvania on Election Day

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:51 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Orlando Sanford International Airport, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/David Goldman)It turns out that what Mitt Romney billed as his final campaign rally tonight in New Hampshire won't be the final political event of his White House bid.


Two final polls split between Obama and Romney

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:56 PM PST

Obama, Romney criss-crossing battleground statesPolls from Gallup and the Washington Post/ABC News were released Monday, with the former showing Mitt Romney up 1 point among likely voters and the latter favoring President Obama by 3 points.


Store near Obama rally has a message for the Secret Service

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 02:40 PM PST

Message for Secret ServiceThe president is planning an outdoor rally in Des Moines, but one store within the event's security zone is taking a stand against searches inside the shop.


Jay-Z sings ’99 Problems But a Mitt Ain’t One’ at Obama rally

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 03:03 PM PST

Jay-Z performs for U.S. President Obama at an election campaign rally in ColumbusThe Hip-hop artist performed at a rally for the president where he sang a version of his song "99 Problems" with the refrain, "99 Problems But a Mitt Ain't One."


Early voting results favor Obama, but popular vote remains uncertain

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:12 PM PST

Obama's Chicago ready for Election DayThirty million votes are already cast for the next president of the Unites States, and the turnout so far favors President Barack Obama over GOP challenger Mitt Romney. The contest for the White House has hardly begun, however: These results, from 34 states and the District of Columbia, account only for the party affiliation of [...]


The 2012 election is the closest race in 76 years

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 02:46 PM PST

Sandy upends final week of presidential raceAs of Monday, President Obama has a very slim 0.4 percent lead in the popular vote based on consensus data from Real Clear Politics.


Polls suggest undecided voters might not help Romney

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 12:48 PM PST

Undecided voters have been focus grouped, split up into tiny subdivisions, and above all, relentlessly mocked this election. And now, after hundreds of millions of dollars spent to win their vote, there's finally some evidence from pollsters that they're reaching a decision. The latest WSJ/NBC national poll puts Obama up over Romney by the narrowest margin, 48 percent to 47 percent. But it's the poll's breakdown of respondents who are either undecided or still willing to consider switching that stands out. ...

Tale of two New Jersey towns now linked by Sandy

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:08 AM PST

Handout image of Hurricane Sandy destruction along the New Jersey shoreAsbury Park and Bay Head are two towns on opposite ends of the Jersey Shore's socio-economic spectrum - one with many poor people, the other with professionals in lucrative Wall Street careers.


Prosecutor: U.S. soldier had blood of Afghan massacre victims on him

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 04:46 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011, file photo, Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. The preliminary hearing for Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in March, begins Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, with villagers expected to testify by video from Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. Bales is scheduled to appear at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for the pretrial hearing, which is expected to last two weeks. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has been charged with 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder in one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Everything you wanted to know about voting machines

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 09:52 AM PST

An election worker shows a voter how to use an electronic voting machine at the Denver Elections Division headquarters in downtown DenverAfter the "hanging chad" kerfuffle of 2000, most of the country moved to voting machines. But they present their own issues.


The middle class: Worse off than you think?

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:40 AM PST

File photograph of house for-sale in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of WashingtonThe decline of the middle class has emerged as a key issue in the presidential campaign with both candidates promising policies to restore the economic stability of the middle class.


Amazing story of survival after NJ man leaves ‘farewell’ note

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:50 AM PST

A Toms River, N.J., man who didn't think he would survive Sandy's storm surge, broke into a stranger's house and left a farewell note asking her to "tell my Dad I love him." Thankfully the letter writer, identified only as Mike, was reunited with his father, Tony. And both will have a lifetime to retell [...]

New York man crushed by giant crucifix has leg amputated

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:17 AM PST

A deeply religious man in upstate New York who believes a church's giant crucifix cured his wife of cancer had his own leg amputated after the same crucifix collapsed on top of him. CBS New York reports that the accident occurred when 45-year-old David Jimenez was cleaning the 600-pound crucifix, which was allegedly held up [...]

Astrophysicist finds real location for Superman's home planet

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:15 AM PST

Superman's Home Planet Krypton 'Found'A prominent astrophysicist has pinned down a real location for Superman's fictional home planet of Krypton.


Hurricane Sandy blows migrating birds off track

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 12:06 PM PST

Hurricane Sandy Blows Migrating Birds Off TrackGannets in New York Harbor, jaegers at Cape May, NJ, storm petrels on the Hudson River and even a red-billed tropicbird are just some of the rare birds sighted along the Atlantic coast after Hurricane Sandy.


‘Dragon Baby’: Dad creates ‘Kill Bill’-inspired short film

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:49 AM PST

In what should easily secure him the Father of the Year title if not an Oscar, Patrick Boivin has created "Dragon Baby," a "Kill Bill"-inspired short film starring his infant son who uses martial arts to slay a stuffed dragon. According to Boivin, a Montreal-based filmmaker, the minute-long, CGI-heavy trailer is an homage to both [...]

Extreme voting: How astronauts cast ballots from space

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:11 AM PST

Extreme Voting: How Astronauts Cast Ballots from SpaceCall it the ultimate absentee ballot. NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the option of voting in tomorrow's (Nov. 6) presidential election from orbit, hundreds of miles above their nearest polling location.


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