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| Seized US homes in resale freeze Bank of America will extend its ban on sales of repossessed homes from 23 US states to all 50 as it looks for possible legal flaws. bbc.co.uk |
SuperBaby is Back for National Window Covering Safety Month - Video Parents and caregivers are being reminded of potential window-cord dangers and are urged to make the right choice and only use cordless window products in homes with young children. feedproxy.google.com |
Inside China's floating hospital for Africans A Chinese floating hospital has set sail on its maiden voyage and is visiting several African countries, beginning with Kenya. bbc.co.uk |
Shooting sparks Argentina protest Thousands of people demonstrated in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires in protest at the murder of a left-wing activist during a labour dispute. bbc.co.uk |
Democratic candidates shun Obama With even the safest Democratic seats under threat, tempers in the party are beginning to unravelEmotions are becoming rawer and tempers are fraying at election events across the US, with only a week left to polling and the Democrats facing massive losses.Some Democratic candidates have been distancing themselves from Barack Obama, whom they see as a vote loser, but the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Rhode Island, Frank Caprio, went even further: expressing exasperation in an interview that the president had failed to endorse him on a campaign stop in the state on Monday, Caprio said Obama "can take his endorsement and really shove it".Obama failed formally to back Caprio partly because the president is an admirer of the independent candidate Lincoln Chafee, who backed Obama rather than John McCain in the White House race. Chafee, exploiting Democratic discord, put out a TV ad today in which Obama featured prominently.Obama visited Rhode Island mainly to raise funds for the Democratic party. The irritated Caprio, in the interview, said Obama had ignored the state when it suffered from flooding earlier this year, and: "Now he's coming into Rhode Island and treating us like an ATM machine."Rhode Island is normally one of the safest Democratic states in the country but, like his colleagues elsewhere in the country, Caprio is on the defensive. His poll lead has been slashed to just 1%.Poll figures today offered little relief to Democrats fighting around the country to shore up support in the face of defeat in next Tuesday's House, Senate and governors' races. In a final "battleground poll" published today, Politico shows the Republicans with a 14% lead among independents. It was independents who gave the Democrats congressional wins in 2006 and propelled Obama into the White House two years later.Tempers in Kentucky turned to violence in the Senate race on Monday when supporters of the Tea Party-backed candidate, Rand Paul, shoved a Democratic sympathiser to the ground. One of them then stepped on her, but she said later she had suffered no more than a headache.The Democrat, Lauren Valle, had been trying to give a fake award to Paul when she was wrestled to the ground.Paul's campaign issued a statement saying: "Violence of any kind has no place in our civil discourse and we urge supporters on all sides to be civil to one another as tensions rise heading toward this very important election."The Kentucky campaign has becoming increasingly bitter, with Paul unwilling to shake hands with his opponent, Jack Conway, after a debate last week. Paul was upset over a television ad by Conway questioning his (Paul's) commitment to Christianity.Only a week ago, Paul was neck and neck with Conway but polls suggest the Republican has established a lead of about 7%. The violent incident was filmed and is being widely shown, and that is unlikely to help Paul.In another sign of tension, the Democratic candidate, Alex Sink, was yesterday forced to sack a campaign aide who broke the rules of a televised debate. Once the debate begins, candidates are not supposed to be in contact with their campaign teams to receive advice. But during a break a makeup artist, before daubing extra powder on Sink's face, showed her a message on an electronic device from an adviser. Her opponent, Rick Scott, also having his makeup retouched, spotted this and complained.When Monday night's debate resumed, Scott said: "First, Alex, you say you always follow the rules. The rule was, no one is supposed to give us messages during the break, and your campaign did, with an iPad – all right, an iPod."Sink issued a statement later, saying: "After the debate tonight, one of my campaign advisers admitted he tried to communicate with me during one of the breaks. While he told me it was out of anger with Rick Scott's repeated distortion of facts, it was a foolish thing to do." She added that she had sacked him.US midterm elections 2010US politicsUnited StatesObama administrationJohn McCainDemocratsTea Party movementRepublicansEwen MacAskillguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |