Rove Tests iPhone App in Nevada Senate Ground Game


GOP Giving up on Miller, Supporting Murkowski?


KTVA-CBS 11 Compounds Scandal After Caught Targeting Miller's Senate Campaign


Totenberg's 'Very Afraid' of These Elections; Thomas Thinks They're 'A Joke...Political System's a Mess'


US midterm elections: Barack Obama's world turned upside down as Democrats face electoral disaster
By abandoning his own rhetoric of bipartisanship, President Obama divided America and set the course for a heavy Democratic defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections, argues Toby Harnden.


Bill Clinton’s Role in Florida Senate Race Seems to Cost Democrat Some Black Votes


Crist Would Caucus With Democrats, Advisor Says


Audit resolves voting irregularity questions
County registrar calls allegations of voter fraud 'unjustified'
By JEFF GERMAN
Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said Wednesday that he has "reconciled" five discrepancies in early voting alleged by Republicans this week.


Clinton asked Meek to drop out     
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - Bill Clinton last week tried to persuade Florida Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek to drop out of the three-way contest, a spokesman for the former President confirmed to CNN.


Dems Ask Pentagon for Info on Potential Obama Challengers
The Democratic National Committee formally has asked the Pentagon for reams of correspondence between military agencies and nine potential Republican presidential candidates, a clear indication that Democrats are building opposition-research files on specific 2012 contenders even before the midterm elections.


Alaska judge bars write-in lists


Obama Urges Hispanics to Punish "Enemies," Vote Democratic


Republicans Plan Budget Cuts as Early Act If They Take Power


Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid's name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members
By: Mark Hemingway
Clark County is where three quarters of Nevada's residents and live and where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's son Rory is a county commissioner. Rory is also a Democratic candidate for governor.


SEIU Controls ‘Glitchy’ Voter Machines in Clark County, NV
by Publius


Is this legal?
I'm sure a husband can fill it out for his wife, but can you solicit blank ballots?
We have a leftie blogger in Washington asking for readers to sign their ballots and send them to him to fill out


Voter reports problem with ballot machine
Man said he voted straight-party ticket and got opposite results


The SEIU, Harry Reid, And Voting Problems


Republican Leads by 10 Points in California District that is 67% Hispanic
Canary in a coal mine.
A new SurveyUSA poll shows Democrat Jim Costa trailing Republican Andy Vidak by 10 points, 42% to 52%. Obama won the Fresno-based district with 60% of the vote in 2008, and Cook Political Report has the race rated "Leans Democrat."


Carly Fiorina hospitalized in California


Angle campaign attorney: Reid “intends to steal this election if he can’t win it outright”
By Jon Ralston
So says Cleta Mitchell, the same woman who tried to get Scott Ashjian, the Tea Party of Nevada candidate out of the race, in an astonishing letter:
Secretary of state's response, calling Mitchell's letter "conjecture and rumor," posted at right.


Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At Polls
Clark County Insists Election Fraud-Free
LAS VEGAS -- Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines.


'The View': Joy Behar tells Sharron Angle to 'go to hell, bitch'
by Ken Tucker
Joy Behar condemned a political ad by Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle as fomenting racial divisiveness. The View aired Angle’s latest TV ad on the talk show on Tuesday morning. Looking at the camera, Behar addressed Angle, calling her a “bitch” and concluding that Angle is “going to hell, this bitch.”


Obama’s turnout pitch to Latinos: Get out there and punish your “enemies”


Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push
WOONSOCKET, R.I. – President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party's prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses.

State releases landmark global warming rules
By Paul Rogers
Roughly 600 of California's major polluters -- from oil refineries to power plants and factories -- will face mandatory limits on the amount of greenhouse gases they emit, starting Jan. 1, 2012, under new rules released Friday by state air regulators.

RIP: Carbon trading
In a little reported move, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is ending carbon trading this year — the very purpose for which it was founded. CCX will remain open for business, however, as it transitions into the murky world of dealing in carbon offsets.

'Smiling' woman 'stabbed MP twice in stomach after confronting him about Iraq war'


Council build 'cage' for autistic schoolboy
The parents of a severely autistic schoolboy were left horrified after their local council promised him a specialised play area but built a cage resembling a dog-run.


Brazil's first female president vows to 'honour' Lula's economic legacy
Brazil's first female president has pledged to continue with the economic policies that have produced rapid growth under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and to 'honour his legacy'.


Venezuela's Chavez nationalizes local steel company
By Enrique Andres Pretel
(Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez ordered the nationalization of local steel company Sidetur on Sunday in the latest of a several recent government takeovers in South America's top oil producer.


2,000 rally in Moscow, demand freedom of assembly
By OLEG YURYEV, The Associated Press
MOSCOW -- Nearly 2,000 people gathered in central Moscow on Sunday demanding freedom of assembly in a rare sanctioned rally.


India to be central part of any UNSC reform: US
Inching closer towards endorsing New Delhi's bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, the US has said India would be central part of any consideration of reform and expansion of the most powerful wing of the world body.


South Koreans reunited with Northern relatives after sixty years
Hundreds of South Koreans held tearful reunions with their relatives living in the North as the heavily-guarded border was opened for the first time in over a year.


Spanish fathers entitled to breastfeeding leave
Europe's top court has declared that working fathers in Spain are entitled to take 'breastfeeding leave' everyday, even if the mother of the child is not employed.


A Witch Hunt Is Underway in Ecuador
Posted by Juan Carlos Hidalgo
Many people feared that President Rafael Correa would unleash a witch hunt in Ecuador after the police uprising of September 30th that his government quickly dubbed a “coup attempt.” As my colleague Gabriela Calderón wrote a few days after those incidents, the government’s narrative that Correa was kidnapped in a hospital by rogue elements of the national police has been severely undermined by several witnesses who claim that Correa stayed voluntarily in the building and was in control of the situation the entire time. Mary O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal also mentioned this in her weekly column.


Health bosses refuse to pay pregnancy benefit for woman whose premature baby was 'born too early'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Michelle and Lee Ellis make daily trips to The Royal London Hospital to see their sick daughter, but are struggling to pay the rail fares
A mother struggling to pay the rail fare to see her baby in hospital has been told she won't get a pregnancy grant because her daughter is too premature.


Venezuelan workers protest Chavez's nationalization of U.S. company
David Paulin
As part of ongoing efforts to introduce "21st century socialism" to Venezuela, Hugo Chávez plans to nationalize yet another foreign company -- this time the local subsidiary of U.S. glass-making giant Owens-Illinois, Inc. Chávez claims the company's subsidiary has been "exploiting" workers.


Alcohol in space? Da!


Japan's young men seek a new path
By Chico Harlan
TOKYO - Something is happening to Japan's young men. Compared with the generation that came before, they are less optimistic, less ambitious and less willing to take risks. They are less likely to own a car, want a car, or drive fast if they get a car. They are less likely to pursue sex on the first date - or the third. They are, in general, less likely to spend money. They are more likely to spend money on cosmetics.


Rare Earth Shortages Hit Germany
BY BEATE PREUSCHOFF AND PATRICK MCGROARTY
BERLIN—Germany's industrial base is feeling the effects of current supply shortages of rare-earth materials, German Economics Minister Rainer Bruederle said Tuesday, adding that it was now a problem of politics in addition to economics.

The Fallacy of the Circular Flow


Net Neutrality Supporters Admit, They Want Property Rights Eliminated
By Warner Todd Huston
Oh, Net Neutrality sure sounds like a great idea. Why, Net Neutrality supporters only want what’s best for “the people,” right? They only want the Internet to be a playground for all, free of the influence of evil corporations, and they want fees to be reasonable for the lowly masses, right? Turns out, not so much. Fair pricing and open access is the least of what Net Neutrality supporters really care about.


Whose moon bases?
GWYNNE DYER
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency, or NASA, has just released the full data on last year’s mission to find out whether there are useable amounts of water on the moon, and the news is good. There is plenty of frozen water on the moon, plus frozen gases like methane, oxygen and hydrogen that would be useful for making rocket fuel. This will be very helpful to the Chinese and the Indians when they start to build their bases on the moon.


Europe rethinking the welfare state
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER


How to Get Rid of NPR. For Good.
by Gary North
I had never heard of Juan Williams before he became a celebrity for having been fired without a hearing by NPR. Mr. Williams made an injudicious remark about feeling nervous when on a plane with Muslims.