Yahoo! News: Elections

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• House votes to extend tax on wealthy estates (AP)
• Troop surge rattles political landscape (Politico)
• Obama family lights National Christmas Tree (AP)
• Obama calls for new ideas for creating jobs (AP)
• Obama pushes to turn around failing schools (AP)
• Oprah visits White House for Christmas special (AP)
• Afghan training mission faces tough obstacles (AP)
• Obama vows to tackle jobs challenge head-on (Reuters)
• Obama seeks answers to rising joblessness, sinking polls (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Young voters fault Obama on many measures: poll (Reuters)
• In Massachusetts, hopefuls clutch at Kennedy aura (Reuters)
• Insider, centerfold lead in race for Kennedy seat (AP)
• US isolationism on the rise, poll finds (AFP)
• White House to Rogers critics: Back off (Politico)
• Gates: 3,000 extra troops could go to Afghanistan (AP)
• Vermont auditor pleads guilty to drunken driving (AP)
• Pelosi: Bailout money to fund jobs initiative (AP)

House votes to extend tax on wealthy estates (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 01:31 PM PST AP - The House voted Thursday to indefinitely extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.

Troop surge rattles political landscape (Politico) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 01:50 AM PST Politico - With his announcement of a troop increase in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has complicated an already hazardous political landscape and introduced a highly combustible element into scores of House and Senate races.

Obama family lights National Christmas Tree (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:34 PM PST AP - Surrounded by celebrity performers and characters from the North Pole, the Obama family on Thursday led a countdown and lighted the National Christmas Tree.

Obama calls for new ideas for creating jobs (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:40 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation," including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example.

Obama pushes to turn around failing schools (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:50 PM PST AP - The Obama administration will spend at least $3.5 billion to push local officials around the country to close failing schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals.

Oprah visits White House for Christmas special (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:53 PM PST AP - Oprah and Obama, teamed up again. The billionaire talk show host descended on the White House on Thursday, accompanied by a giant array of personnel and equipment, to interview President Barack Obama for her upcoming primetime Christmas television special.

Afghan training mission faces tough obstacles (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:49 PM PST AP - America's eight-year effort to build a functional Afghan security force has been a study in slow motion, raising doubts about President Barack Obama's new plan to quickly get the nation's army and police in shape so U.S. forces can begin to leave in 18 months.

Obama vows to tackle jobs challenge head-on (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama urged corporate America on Thursday to help tackle the nation's highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and aid to states to ease jobless woes.

Obama seeks answers to rising joblessness, sinking polls (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — With the jobless rate rising and his approval ratings sinking, President Barack Obama hosted academics and leaders of business and labor at a White House jobs summit Thursday, seeking advice on how to boost employment.

Young voters fault Obama on many measures: poll (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:18 PM PST Reuters - Fifty-eight percent of younger Americans approve of President Barack Obama's job performance but many feel differently about his handling of specific issues, a national poll has found.

In Massachusetts, hopefuls clutch at Kennedy aura (Reuters) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:11 PM PST Reuters - How do you follow a legend?

Insider, centerfold lead in race for Kennedy seat (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 03:00 PM PST AP - The race for a Senate seat once held by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, John F. Kennedy and "liberal lion" Edward M. Kennedy is shaping up as a battle of relative national unknowns, led by a state Democratic insider and a Republican lawmaker perhaps best known as a male centerfold and father of an "American Idol" contestant.

US isolationism on the rise, poll finds (AFP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:46 PM PST AFP - President Barack Obama may have sought to sell his revamped Afghanistan war strategy to a skeptical US public, but a poll showed Thursday that he faces a tough task amid a growing isolationist surge.

White House to Rogers critics: Back off (Politico) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:44 PM PST Politico - If White House social secretary Desiree Rogers survives this week's withering attacks over her role in last week's state dinner security breach, she'll have gotten by with a lot of help from her friends in the West Wing.

Gates: 3,000 extra troops could go to Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:42 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said he'd send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But the actual number could be higher.

Vermont auditor pleads guilty to drunken driving (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:12 PM PST AP - The state auditor of Vermont, who gained national notice when he deployed to Iraq during his re-election campaign, has pleaded guilty to drunken driving.

Pelosi: Bailout money to fund jobs initiative (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:02 PM PST AP - The top Democrat on Capitol Hill said Thursday that Congress will tap unused funds from the Wall Street bailout to pay for new spending on roads and bridges and save the jobs of firefighters, teachers and other public employees.

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