Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/703 Politics News en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 07:43:05 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/703 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_el_pr/democrats ap/20080512/democrats AP Mon, 12 May 2008 07:51:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_el_pr/democrats"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.662db4155f4946f29a90116578c2fb03.clinton_2008_wvea119.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=cyvVqbnuM2A9XHyg4s1RXg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A supporter holds up a sign as Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during a campaign event in Eleanor, W. Va. Sunday, May 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton was just warming up the crowd in a cramped and muggy middle school gymnasium when she switched her pronouns.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_el_pr/democrats"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.662db4155f4946f29a90116578c2fb03.clinton_2008_wvea119.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=cyvVqbnuM2A9XHyg4s1RXg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="A supporter holds up a sign as Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during a campaign event in Eleanor, W. Va. Sunday, May 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_el_se/lobbyist_for_senate ap/20080512/lobbyist_for_senate AP Mon, 12 May 2008 07:29:04 GMT AP - The revolving door between former members of Congress and lucrative lobbying firms usually leads one way. But Jim Slattery is trying to make a U-turn. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_s_fall ap/20080511/clinton_s_fall AP Sun, 11 May 2008 19:26:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_s_fall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.3e8f4a67bec8420ebebb9aee256e4686.clinton_2008_nyea105.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=2N04bTxjoYGwzZmn2sC9tA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a Mothers Day fundraiser in New York Saturday, May 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_s_fall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.3e8f4a67bec8420ebebb9aee256e4686.clinton_2008_nyea105.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=2N04bTxjoYGwzZmn2sC9tA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a Mothers Day fundraiser in New York Saturday, May 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/bad_ballots ap/20080511/bad_ballots AP Sun, 11 May 2008 16:55:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/bad_ballots"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20080511/capt.d4e9c4c26b0671e74b96394fedf833d6.jpeg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=nYbp2LXaSifAey9.fPnJ0w--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="**FILE PHOTO** A Votomatic machine from Palm Beach County, Fla., which introduced America to 'butterfly ballots' and various kinds of 'chads', from pregnant to dimpled to hanging, is part of an exhibit on voting that opened Friday, July 16, 2004, at the National Museum of American History. (AP Photo/Adele Starr)" border="0" /></a>AP - The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the political lexicon — pregnant, hanging and otherwise.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/bad_ballots"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20080511/capt.d4e9c4c26b0671e74b96394fedf833d6.jpeg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=nYbp2LXaSifAey9.fPnJ0w--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="photo" title="**FILE PHOTO** A Votomatic machine from Palm Beach County, Fla., which introduced America to 'butterfly ballots' and various kinds of 'chads', from pregnant to dimpled to hanging, is part of an exhibit on voting that opened Friday, July 16, 2004, at the National Museum of American History. (AP Photo/Adele Starr)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080511/pl_politico/10261 politico/20080511/10261 Politico Sun, 11 May 2008 22:24:00 GMT Politico - BEND, Ore. -- When the election returns filter in Tuesday from West Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama won't be there. Nor will he leapfrog ahead to a later primary state, as he usually does on election nights. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/obama_endorsement ap/20080511/obama_endorsement AP Sun, 11 May 2008 05:51:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/obama_endorsement"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.b4deefabe3204a3d900faa00095d7f9b.obama_2008_ordr1o6.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=Qu_8YWFl4pd0xFeltcDsaA--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks while campaigning at Summit High School in Bend, Ore., Saturday, May 10, 2008.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/obama_endorsement"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080510/capt.b4deefabe3204a3d900faa00095d7f9b.obama_2008_ordr1o6.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=Qu_8YWFl4pd0xFeltcDsaA--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks while campaigning at Summit High School in Bend, Ore., Saturday, May 10, 2008.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/edwards ap/20080511/edwards AP Sun, 11 May 2008 21:10:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/edwards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t130118_450x321_us_usa_politics_edwards.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=Mtj2qz1A.yubHZCpb5U1mg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="John Edwards gestures during a speech announcing he would withdraw his candidacy for U.S. president in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 30, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said Sunday that he thinks Barack Obama will be the party's presidential nominee and that Hillary Rodham Clinton must be careful not to damage the party's prospects in November as she continues her campaign.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_el_pr/edwards"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t130118_450x321_us_usa_politics_edwards.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=Mtj2qz1A.yubHZCpb5U1mg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="John Edwards gestures during a speech announcing he would withdraw his candidacy for U.S. president in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 30, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_go_co/congress_energy_fact_check ap/20080512/congress_energy_fact_check AP Mon, 12 May 2008 07:14:10 GMT AP - As millions of people approach the summer vacation season under the threat of $4-per-gallon gasoline, Congress is scrambling to respond. But don't wait for anything that will drive down prices at the pump. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_go_ot/autism_court_case ap/20080512/autism_court_case AP Mon, 12 May 2008 07:35:10 GMT AP - The Institute of Medicine said in 2004 there was no credible evidence to show that vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal led to autism in children. But thousands of families have a different take based on personal experience. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_stevens ap/20080510/scotus_stevens AP Sat, 10 May 2008 19:30:37 GMT AP - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles probably died more humanely than death row prisoners do. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/wl_afp/georgiarussiaabkhaziaeu afp/20080509/georgiarussiaabkhaziaeu AFP Fri, 09 May 2008 17:45:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/wl_afp/georgiarussiaabkhaziaeu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndb29.090508194509.photo00.photo.default-512x350.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=9WvU20rGcqxTu5SLoPzK_A--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="People shout as they hold poster reading, "Caucasia is for Caucasians!" during a rally near the Russian embassy in Tbilisi on May 7, 2008. Five European Union foreign ministers will travel to Georgia next week to try to help to cool tensions with Russia over the separatist region of Abkhazia, Slovenia said Friday.(AFP/File/Vano Shlamov)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Five European Union foreign ministers will travel to Georgia next week to try to help to cool tensions with Russia over the separatist region of Abkhazia, Slovenia said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/wl_afp/georgiarussiaabkhaziaeu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndb29.090508194509.photo00.photo.default-512x350.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=9WvU20rGcqxTu5SLoPzK_A--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="People shout as they hold poster reading, "Caucasia is for Caucasians!" during a rally near the Russian embassy in Tbilisi on May 7, 2008. Five European Union foreign ministers will travel to Georgia next week to try to help to cool tensions with Russia over the separatist region of Abkhazia, Slovenia said Friday.(AFP/File/Vano Shlamov)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)