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** FILE ** Jefferson Thomas (left), Ernest Green (center) and President Bill Clinton sing together at the conclusion of a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at the White House to honor Mr. Thomas, Mr. Green and the other members of the Little Rock Nine, the black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon (left) and National Economic Council Director Lawrence H. Summers are in Beijing to meet with Chinese leaders to steady U.S.-China relations upset by disputes over currency, trade and military affairs. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)
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A protester demonstrates outside Eason book store in Dublin, Ireland, as Irish police look on, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared for a public book signing at the Eason book store as anti-war protesters hurled shoes and eggs at him as he arrived for his first public signing of his fast-selling memoir. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Associated Press photographs California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has held a number of other electoral offices in the 27 years since leaving the governor's mansion in 1983.
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Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has to win a Sept. 14 primary before he can commence a rematch for the seat he lost in 2006.
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Georgia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Roy Barnes has been out of office for eight years since losing in 2002.
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Oregon Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber wants a third term after leaving office eight years ago.
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Iowa Republican gubernatorial hopeful Terry Branstad, who served from 1983 to 1999, is seeking a fifth term.
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**FILE** Indian policemen take away a protest banner as they detain a Greenpeace activist protesting against a nuclear bill near the Indian Parliament House in New Delhi, India, on Aug. 25, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, first entered the House in 1991, and could mark his 20th anniversary there by becoming speaker if his party retakes control of Congress in November.
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An Afghan youth rides past election posters of parliamentarian candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban vowed to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs his weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool)
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**FILE** Palestinian men inspect the damage following Israeli airstrikes on a smuggling tunnel at the border with Egypt in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 5, 2010. One Palestinian was killed, a second was wounded and three more were missing, Hamas security officials said Sunday, as Israeli aircraft bombed the tunnel in retaliation for Hamas shooting attacks that killed four Israelis last week. (Associated Press)
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (right) talks with ABC's Christiane Amanpour for a series of exclusive interviews, his first for North American broadcast in advance of the release of his memoir, "A Journey," in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/ABC News, Martin H. Simon)
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U.S. Army soldiers secure a road at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. At least three people were killed and 11 wounded in the car-bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy, according to local hospitals. NATO said there were no injuries to coalition forces or damage to their vehicles. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Ariel Ticona Yanez, center, is helped by rescue workers after being lifted out of the San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Chilean Government, Hugo Infante)
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Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, right, joins his campaigners outside a Washington polling center, during an early voting Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Early voting for the September primary election in Washington began Monday with a number of changes for voters, including new voting machines that create a paper record and more lenient registration procedures. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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This Jan. 14, 2009, file photo shows Republican Senate nominee Rob Portman speaks Lebanon, Ohio. Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot people who have lost jobs -- or know someone who has -- now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances here in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)
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President Barack Obama, center, delivers a statement on the monthly jobs number on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. From left are, outgoing Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, the president, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Small Business Administrator (SBA) Karen G. Mills and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
