Taliban urge Afghan vote boycott, warn of violence

Doubts of violence and fraud are execution over Saturday's vote, in which almost 2,500 candidates are vying for 249 seats in the wolesi jirga or lower house of assembly.

Afghanistan's own election watchdog has warned of a "disputatious" procedure.

The poll is a test of constancy ahead of President Barack Obama's plan appraisal in December, which will likely look at the pace and scale of U.S. troop withdrawals.

President Hamid Karzai's trustworthiness with his allies is also on the line, after a fraud-marred presidential vote last year, with some observer warning that a repeat of that drawn-out poll would strain relationships and could play into the Taliban's hands.

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Palin's Wins Stoke White House Run

Two more applicants backed by the former Alaska governor achievement Tuesday, boosting her impetus and adding to her loyal army. Shushannah Walshe on her organization’s ramp-up for 2012.

Less than a week ago, Christine O’Donnell, a perennial contender badly incompatible against Mike Castle, a fixture in Delaware politics for an age group, was given virtually no chance to win. Then, abruptly, on Sean Hannity’s radio show came the season’s must-have endorsement: Sarah Palin was backing O’Donnell and Palin's Wins Stoke White House Run.

The also-ran’s fortunes distorted overnight, and her campaign took off, propelled by recorded phone calls from Palin herself. On Tuesday night, O’Donnell shocked the following world with one of the biggest upset yet in a year that has been full of them.

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Census: 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty

The position of the working-age poor scaled to the highest level since the 1960s as the depression threw millions of people out of work last year, send-off one in seven Americans in poverty.

The in general poverty rate scaled to 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people, the Census Bureau said Thursday in its yearly report on the financial well-being of U.S.
households.

The report covers 2009, President Barack Obama's first year in office.

The scarcity rate climbed from 13.2 percent, or 39.8 million people, in 2008.

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