http://www.bradenton.com/elections/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Bradenton.com en-us Copyright 2008 Bradenton.com Elections 60 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:17:08 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@bradenton.com http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/863806.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/863806.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:43 EDT Washington state's last governor's race ended in controversy with three counts, a court challenge and an astonishingly close margin of victory for the current governor. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/862608.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/862608.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:54 EDT Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats - one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/861586.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/861586.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:59 EDT Although most Americans are focused on the presidential campaign, voters in 11 states are also choosing governors this fall in races that offer an important prelude to 2010, when most of the nation's governors' offices are up for grabs. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/860412.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/860412.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:44 EDT U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews said Thursday he intends to seek re-election after all, replacing his wife on the ballot for his congressional seat. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/855645.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/855645.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:27 EDT In a high school classroom, Xavier Chavez is trying to teach a group of restless teenagers about Manifest Destiny - the 19th century belief that the United States was divinely fated to stretch from sea to shining sea. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/851670.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/851670.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:19 EDT A Democrat who raised a hefty amount of money and a Republican lobbyist who has never held elected office will battle each other in November to succeed embattled Republican Rep. Rick Renzi in Arizona's 1st Congressional District. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/851946.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/851946.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:03 EDT An attorney hoping to become the first Democrat in nearly two decades to represent Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress picked up an endorsement Tuesday from the incumbent who lost a GOP primary for the seat. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/849624.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/849624.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:01 EDT Cliff Perez is legally blind and would like to vote without help this fall. Instead, he will have to count on his wife's assistance with New York's ancient pull lever machines, rather than use brand new $12,000 voting devices designed to give independence to the disabled. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/848084.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/848084.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:59 EDT A labor advocacy group will begin airing $5 million worth of ads Monday on national cable and in targeted states to press for legislation that would allow workers to organize without secret ballot elections. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/847611.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/847611.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:38 EDT Sordid bribery allegations and jokes about "cold cash" hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer apparently did not matter much to voters two years ago when the New Orleans Democrat won a runoff election for his long-held congressional seat with a surprising 57 percent. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/847403.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/847403.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:28 EDT Spanish speakers seeking deals on a hot and humid summer Saturday also had to answer to a civics question popular this time of year. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/847448.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/847448.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:19 EDT John McCain introduced new running mate Sarah Palin to voters in battleground Pennsylvania on Saturday as they wound their way toward St. Paul and a Republican National Convention where the mood was suddenly threatened by Hurricane Gustav. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/844304.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/844304.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:18 EDT Whether it was holding signs or waving American flags, area supporters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama sat glued to the television Thursday awaiting history - the acceptance speech by the first African-American candidate nominated by a major political party. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841497.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841497.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:38 EDT A majority of California voters oppose a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage, though they are evenly split on the practice itself, according to a poll released Wednesday. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841448.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841448.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:23 EDT The mayors carried the primary day. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841402.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841402.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:27 EDT U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan is leading his three challengers in fundraising, the polls and in television commercials. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841400.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841400.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:25 EDT By the slimmest of margins, longtime assistant public defender Larry Eger eked out a 1 percent victory in the 12th Circuit Public Defender GOP race over Ron Filipkowski. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841431.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841431.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:25 EDT A day after winning a fourth term, Manatee County school board member Harry Kinnan said he knows he has a lot of work to do. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841447.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841447.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:25 EDT Kathy Dent was hoping for a smooth Election Day. http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841186.html http://www.bradenton.com/elections/story/841186.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:04 EDT Alaska's Republican old guard talked tough Wednesday after a bruising primary, sounding confident they can prevail in the November general election despite criminal probes.