Oct 21 Jobs, Conservative Roots Pose Hurdles for Democrats in Small Town America _pap_embeddable('news01s4499qf90',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Ohio's 16th District all begins with Canton. The former manufacturing hub in the northeasternpart of the state has simultaneously shrunk in population and yet grown in the ranks of Ohio cities - climbing… Continue reading
Oct 21 Poll: Young Voters Are Less Fired Up, Ready to Go The head of University Democrats at the University of Virginia tries to register voters for the upcoming midterm elections. AFP photo by Saul Loeb In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama won the support of a large majority of voters ages… Continue reading
Oct 21 Stay Granted on Halting ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’; Arms Sale Planned for Saudi Arabia A federal appeals court late Wednesday issued an emergency stay of a judge's order halting the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, temporarily granting the Obama administration's request for a freeze on the order. The three-judge panel of the… Continue reading
Oct 21 Closing the Gap as Election Day Nears Supporters of Pennsylvania Senate candidates Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Joe Sestak waves signs before Wednesday's debate. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call via Getty Images. More often than not there's a natural tightening in competitive political races toward… Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch Cartographic Clout: GOP, Democrats Vie for Redistricting Dominance With new Census numbers being crunched, state legislatures are poised to redraw America's political maps for the next decade. Kwame Holman reports on the battle between Republicans and Democrats to win control of statehouses across the country as population shifts… Continue watching
Oct 20 6 Top Campaign Ads, Debunked Political ad-makers on both sides of the aisle are distorting the truth this campaign season. Nothing new there. But for voters looking for candidate information, political operatives are far from the only source available. There are several nonpartisan fact-checking groups… Continue reading
Oct 20 Reporter’s Notebook: A Clinic’s Strains in Mozambique MAPUTO, Mozambique | Heard much about Mozambique in the last 35 years? It's a country that doesn't get much attention in the United States. It's a big place, roughly the size of Pakistan, and sparsely populated by some 23… Continue reading
Oct 20 Brown, Whitman Compare Each Other to Unpopular Gov. Schwarzenegger Supporters of California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. After Tuesday, California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman shouldn't wait by the phone for an endorsement from the man they are… Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch Frontline’s ‘Death by Fire’ Probes Legitimacy of Texas Man’s Execution A new Frontline documentary revisits the evidence presented in the case of a deadly Texas house fire. Cameron Todd Willingham was charged with murdering his three daughters and executed in 2004, but some say that the state executed an innocent… Continue watching
Oct 19 Economy Divides Voters in Tight Nevada Senate Race LAS VEGAS | In the Silver State's closely watched Senate race between incumbent Harry Reid and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle, supporters on both sides of the spectrum voice deep concern over the state's hard-hit economy. Continue reading