Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama discusses troop levels for Afghanistan (AP)
• Obama steps up push for consumer protection agency (AP)
• Job competition toughest since recession began (AP)
• Read the health bill! Not as easy as you think (AP)
• GOP postpones Vegas event (Politico)
• From right and left, questions about peace prize (AP)
• Undecided Democrat mulls health care options (AP)
• Report: Limiting medical lawsuits could save $41B (AP)
• Obama says he'll accept Nobel as 'call to action' (AP)
• Republican shoots target with Fla. Dem's initials (AP)
• GOP dials down Nobel Prize criticism (Politico)
• Obama, Democrats court women on health overhaul (AP)
• Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action" (Reuters)
• Analysis: A great prize, but will it help goals? (AP)
• US reaction to Obama's win of Nobel Peace Prize (AP)
• Obama expresses admiration for Father Damien (AP)
• Lawmaker cusses out fellow Missourian in House (AP)
• Deeds: Obama Will Campaign Again in Virginia (CQPolitics.com)
• Obama's daughters excited about dad's Nobel prize (AP)
• NY mayoral challenger gets lukewarm Obama backing (Reuters)

Obama discusses troop levels for Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:53 PM PDT AP - Hours after winning a Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama assembled his war council in the White House basement to talk about how many troops might be needed to right the 8-year-old Afghanistan conflict that military commanders are pressing him to escalate.

Obama steps up push for consumer protection agency (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:17 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama fought to keep his proposed banking overhaul on track Friday, casting the political struggle ahead as one between big financial interests and average Americans victimized by complex or unscrupulous financial transactions.

Job competition toughest since recession began (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:03 PM PDT AP - The number of job seekers competing for each opening has reached the highest point since the recession began, according to government data released Friday.

Read the health bill! Not as easy as you think (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - Read the bill! It was a rallying cry at angry health care town halls this summer and has evolved into something of a political movement. Many Americans are demanding that lawmakers actually read the comprehensive legislation they've written — or at least make it publicly available — before voting on it.

GOP postpones Vegas event (Politico) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT Politico - An RNC fundraiser, Lindsey Williams-Drath, raised some eyebrows among Republican donors this afternoon with an email that a big donor weekend in Las Vegas from October 16 to 18 -- headlining the embattled Senator John Ensign -- had been scuttled "due to unforeseen circumstances."

From right and left, questions about peace prize (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:36 PM PDT AP - Gee, you'd think a U.S. president who won the Nobel Peace Prize might get rave reviews from his party's activists and polite congrats from top Republicans.

Undecided Democrat mulls health care options (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - All eyes are on Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe as health care legislation heads for a high-stakes committee vote next week. But she's not the only senator who is being noncommittal.

Report: Limiting medical lawsuits could save $41B (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:29 PM PDT AP - Limits on medical malpractice lawsuits would lead doctors to order up fewer unneeded tests and save taxpayers billions more than previously thought, budget umpires for Congress said Friday in a reversal that puts the issue back in the middle of the health care debate.

Obama says he'll accept Nobel as 'call to action' (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT AP - A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the world's most pressing problems.

Republican shoots target with Fla. Dem's initials (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:48 PM PDT AP - A South Florida Republican said it was a mistake to shoot at a target with the initials of the Democratic congresswoman he is trying to unseat.

GOP dials down Nobel Prize criticism (Politico) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:41 PM PDT Politico - While top conservative media personalities and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele were quick to disparage Friday's surprise awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, the response from other corners of the GOP was considerably more muted.

Obama, Democrats court women on health overhaul (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:35 PM PDT AP - The White House and top Democrats, intensifying their push to build support for their party's health overhaul proposals, are increasingly targeting women, a politically crucial group with strong opinions on health care that polls suggest has yet to be sold on the changes.

Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action" (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:31 PM PDT Reuters - Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.

Analysis: A great prize, but will it help goals? (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:21 PM PDT AP - Now that he's Nobel laureate Barack Obama, will he find smoother sailing for his plans to rid the world of nuclear weapons, to forge Mideast peace and stabilize Afghanistan, to halt climate change?

US reaction to Obama's win of Nobel Peace Prize (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 03:15 PM PDT AP - Some U.S. reaction to President Barack Obama's win of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday:

Obama expresses admiration for Father Damien (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 12:59 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is expressing his admiration for Father Damien, a Hawaiian priest set to become a saint on Sunday when he is canonized in Rome by Pope Benedict XVI.

Lawmaker cusses out fellow Missourian in House (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 12:42 PM PDT AP - Show me some civility, Republicans cried Friday after a Missouri congressman speaking on the House floor was caught on microphone apparently cussing out a fellow Missourian.

Deeds: Obama Will Campaign Again in Virginia (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT CQPolitics.com - Democrat Creigh Deeds said Friday that he'll take all the help for his campaign for Virginia governor that President Obama wants to give him.

Obama's daughters excited about dad's Nobel prize (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:16 AM PDT AP - Moments after President Barack Obama got the news about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, his excited daughters came to congratulate him.

NY mayoral challenger gets lukewarm Obama backing (Reuters) Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:03 AM PDT Reuters - The long-shot Democratic challenger to Mayor Michael Bloomberg is scarcely a household name to many New Yorkers, and his campaign got little help on that front on Friday from the White House.

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