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Ohio: Vote is crucial _ but who are your voters?

By JIM KUHNHENN and STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press KENT, Ohio (AP) - Tommie Jo Marsilio is a former union shop steward. She's a single mom. And she's a Mitt Romney voter. "It's not my job to shatter stereotypes," she says. But she is. Two years ago she became the first

Court skeptical about tossing surveillance suit

By JESSE J. HOLLANDAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday of a government request to invalidate a lawsuit challenging the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects. The Foreign Intelligence

Senate race a tie-breaker for Wisconsin Dems, GOP

By DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Tommy Thompson, four-term Wisconsin governor and now Senate nominee, warmed up the GOP audience for the main event, which was an exuberant, humorous, always biographical plea from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for Republicans to get their

American economy expands at modest 2 percent pace

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The latest snapshot of economic growth shows the U.S. recovery remains tepid. Growth in the July-September quarter climbed slightly but was still too weak to stir significantly more hiring. The pace of expansion rose to a 2 percent