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President Barack Obama prepares to board Air Force One before his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Sept., 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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** FILE ** David Cameron (left), now Great Britain's prime minister, greets his father, Ian, during a visit to the Sun Inn in Swindon, England, in March 2010. The elder Mr. Cameron suffered a stroke while on vacation in France and died on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Johnny Green/PA, File)
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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, second left, is congratulated on his prize by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the former head of the state-funded body which manages the archives of the former East German secret police Stasi Joachim Gauck, second right, as Potsdam's mayor Jann Jakobs looks on after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)
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Romanian Gypsy leader Iulian Radulescu on Wednesday compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania's pro-Nazi wartime leader following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies from France. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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A Sri Lankan opposition supporter shouts slogans during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan opposition supporters burn an effigy of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as policemen block them during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan government supporters carry portraits of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as they rally around the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow the president to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan opposition supporters are blocked by police during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Fireworks light up the sky near the Municipal Council building as the government celebrates the passage of the constitutional amendment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament voted to eliminate term limits for the president Wednesday, a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)
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A Sri Lankan woman who supports the government sits next to portraits of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as presidential boosters rally around Parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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** FILE ** In this Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, file photo, soldiers from the anti-terrorism force of the Yemeni Defense Ministry take part in an exercise at a training camp at the Sarif district, north of the capital San'a, Yemen. U.S. special operations forces are expanding their training of the Yemeni military as the Obama administration broadens its program to counter terrorism in countries reluctant to harbor a visible American military presence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
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Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Koran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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President Obama speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010.
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West Virginia U.S. Senate Republican candidate John Raese talks with supporters at the Hotel Morgan in Morgantown, WV, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 during a reception waiting for primary election results. Raese is running for the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's seat in the Special Election Primary. (AP Photo/Dale Sparks)
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Associated Press photographs West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III (left), a Democrat, leads in polls for a Senate seat, but his GOP rival, businessman John Raese (right), has closed the gap. One analyst calls it a "race worth watching."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "We can't wait until 2012 to start taking our country back," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. Republicans' best shot for pickups may be a string of governorships now held by Democrats across Great Lakes and upper Midwestern states, including Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa as well as Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has spent more than $100 milllion of her own money on her campaign.
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Associated Press House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, cautions Republicans that repealing the new health care law would be easier said than done, even if they retake control of Congress in November.
