Yahoo! News: Elections

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• AP Exclusive: CIA flight carried secret from Gitmo (AP)
• Washington ties dash hopes for political promotion (AP)
• Romer says her White House departure long planned (AP)
• Court reverses drug conviction in GPS case (AP)
• Obama's home-field disadvantage (Politico)
• Kagan celebrates with Obama, to be sworn Saturday (AP)
• Lobbyist: What stories does he have to tell? (AP)
• Vince McMahon sick of Sen. campaign WWE smackdowns (AP)
• Sarah Palin seen as fundraising phenomenom for GOP (AP)
• AP Exclusive: New al-Qaida leader knows US well (AP)
• Goolsbee, Tyson considered for White House economy job (Reuters)
• Obama expected to resubmit Diamond's Fed nomination (Reuters)
• Boozman criticizes pledge to fund Lincoln aid plan (AP)
• Obama marks 45th anniversary of Voting Rights Act (AP)
• Years in Congress cost these lawmakers a promotion (AP)
• Obama selects veteran investigator as CIA watchdog (AP)
• GOP cautiously confident of big gains this fall (AP)
• Minn. Democrats seek gov candidate to break streak (AP)
• Colorado gov. candidate makes deal to repay money (AP)
• Poll shows California governor's race still tight (Reuters)

AP Exclusive: CIA flight carried secret from Gitmo (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:23 PM PDT AP - A white, unmarked Boeing 737 landed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before dawn on a CIA mission so secretive, many in the nation's war on terrorism were kept in the dark.

Washington ties dash hopes for political promotion (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - Ah, the cruelty. Veteran lawmakers who toiled for years in Congress waiting for a chance at political promotion have discovered an inconvenient truth: This election year, Washington experience is a career-ender.

Romer says her White House departure long planned (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - Christina Romer, the departing chief of President Barack Obama's economic advisory council, cast disagreements among key players on the White House economic team as a healthy part of reaching tough policy decisions.

Court reverses drug conviction in GPS case (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 03:59 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a man's drug conspiracy conviction because authorities failed to get a warrant before using a global positioning system device that tracked his movements for a month.

Obama's home-field disadvantage (Politico) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 02:31 AM PDT Politico - CHICAGO – Replacing President Barack Obama in the Senate was always going to be a tall order for Illinois Democrats. But never has the scale of that challenge been so clear as it was this week, when Obama embraced the man nominated to fill his seat and pleaded with voters to make Alexi Giannoulias “the next senator of the great state of Illinois.”

Kagan celebrates with Obama, to be sworn Saturday (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - A beaming Elena Kagan and President Barack Obama on Friday celebrated her imminent ascension to the Supreme Court with jokes and references to the irreverent sense of humor she put on display during her Senate confirmation hearing.

Lobbyist: What stories does he have to tell? (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:58 PM PDT AP - Justice Department prosecutors made it clear in private discussions in recent months that once-prominent lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti could limit his legal exposure if he cooperated fully in a criminal investigation that could eventually spell trouble for members of Congress.

Vince McMahon sick of Sen. campaign WWE smackdowns (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:26 PM PDT AP - Vince McMahon, chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, says his wife's political opponents are taking unfair shots at his company using out-of-context footage — such as old images of a wrestler committing necrophilia or McMahon demanding that a scantily clad female wrestler bark like a dog — as part of an attempt to discredit her U.S. Senate candidacy.

Sarah Palin seen as fundraising phenomenom for GOP (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 06:17 AM PDT AP - Fundraising powerhouse Sarah Palin is helping the Republican National Committee raise money.

AP Exclusive: New al-Qaida leader knows US well (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:04 AM PDT AP - A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.

Goolsbee, Tyson considered for White House economy job (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama is considering economic adviser Austan Goolsbee and Laura Tyson, a senior economist in Bill Clinton's White House, to take over as one of his top policymakers, an administration official said on Friday.

Obama expected to resubmit Diamond's Fed nomination (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 03:18 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama is expected to renominate Peter Diamond to become a member of the Federal Reserve Board, a White House official said on Friday.

Boozman criticizes pledge to fund Lincoln aid plan (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - Republican Congressman John Boozman on Friday accused the White House of trying to boost Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln's re-election odds with a promise to fund a $1.5 billion disaster aid package for farmers.

Obama marks 45th anniversary of Voting Rights Act (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 01:37 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is urging Americans on the 45th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act to honor the legacy of those who helped make the law possible by exercising the rights they fought hard to guarantee.

Years in Congress cost these lawmakers a promotion (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - The members of the House and Senate who aspired to be governor but lost in the primaries:

Obama selects veteran investigator as CIA watchdog (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:58 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama has nominated a veteran investigator to be the next CIA inspector general, a crucial position that has remained vacant for more than a year.

GOP cautiously confident of big gains this fall (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:45 PM PDT AP - The head of the Republican Party on Friday urged members to step up their efforts for the fall elections amid cautious confidence about the GOP winning several governorships and perhaps seizing control of Congress from President Barack Obama's party.

Minn. Democrats seek gov candidate to break streak (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:36 PM PDT AP - Shut out of the governor's mansion for two decades, Minnesota Democrats hope to choose a streak-stopper Tuesday in a primary election defined by tremendous expense, promises of tax hikes and uncertainty over turnout.

Colorado gov. candidate makes deal to repay money (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:20 PM PDT AP - Colorado gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis has reached a settlement to repay the Hasan Family Foundation over allegations he gave the group a plagiarized report on water rights as part of a $300,000 fellowship.

Poll shows California governor's race still tight (Reuters) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:49 AM PDT Reuters - The campaign for California governor, pitting Democrat Jerry Brown against Republican Meg Whitman, remains essentially a dead heat three months before the November election, according to a poll released on Friday.

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