Yahoo! News: Elections

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• AP-GfK Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 crowd (AP)
• Steele may face challengers for GOP chairmanship (AP)
• Write-in ballot count begins in Alaska Senate race (AP)
• Emanuel to formally announce run for Chicago mayor (AP)
• Obama, Boehner should be questioned on health care and the Bush tax cuts (associatedcontent)
• AG: Md. robocalls meant to suppress turnout (AP)
• Top House Republican Boehner stands firm on tax cuts (Reuters)
• Judge denies injunction in Alaska election lawsuit (AP)
• If I were Obama's new chief of staff, we'd start breaking some eggs on the left (associatedcontent)
• Opinion: Fed policy, uninformed voters are irksome following midterm election (associatedcontent)
• Opinion: Is Jerry Brown sincere or overly hopeful? (associatedcontent)
• Opinion: Will Boehner, GOP compromise or create gridlock? (associatedcontent)
• Opinion: Anger pushed GOP into office; but is it the right emotion? (associatedcontent)
• AP-GfK Poll: Low hopes for political compromise (AP)
• Absentee votes could be key in tight NY House race (AP)
• Union responds to report on $150,000 salaries for federal workers (The Upshot)
• Nine Congress and governor races not yet decided (AP)
• How the poll was conducted (AP)
• Why Democrats’ losses could grow in 2012 (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
• Does Rep. Issa see Obama as less corrupt after the elections? (associatedcontent)

AP-GfK Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 crowd (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 04:12 PM PST AP - Sarah Palin is the most polarizing of the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, while impressions of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney lean more positive, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. As for the rest — Pawlenty, Barbour, Thune, Daniels — most Americans say, "Who?"

Steele may face challengers for GOP chairmanship (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 05:14 PM PST AP - Republicans are aggressively recruiting a challenger to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, whose tenure as party chief has been marked by ill-chosen comments and questions about finances.

Write-in ballot count begins in Alaska Senate race (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 05:13 PM PST AP - Alaska election officials began counting more than 92,500 write-in ballots Wednesday in a Senate race that may hinge on voters' penmanship and their ability — or lack of — to spell "Murkowski" on their write-in ballots.

Emanuel to formally announce run for Chicago mayor (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 04:44 PM PST AP - A campaign aide says former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel plans to formally announce his plans to run for Chicago mayor later this week.

Obama, Boehner should be questioned on health care and the Bush tax cuts (associatedcontent) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:44 PM PST associatedcontent - If Barack Obama and John Boehner were to come to a Town Hall style meeting in Philadelphia, many questions should be asked of them. However, some questions are much more important than others.

AG: Md. robocalls meant to suppress turnout (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:28 PM PST AP - A political operative is facing a federal complaint over Election Day robocalls that told supporters of incumbent Gov. Martin O'Malley to relax because he had won, a message the state attorney general said Wednesday was intended to suppress turnout.

Top House Republican Boehner stands firm on tax cuts (Reuters) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:50 PM PST Reuters - John Boehner, the Republican poised to lead the House of Representatives next year, set up a potential showdown with President Barack Obama by pushing his aim to extend tax cuts permanently, even for the wealthy.

Judge denies injunction in Alaska election lawsuit (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:46 PM PST AP - A federal court judge has denied a request by Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller to immediately stop the state Division of Elections from counting write-in ballots.

If I were Obama's new chief of staff, we'd start breaking some eggs on the left (associatedcontent) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PST associatedcontent - If I were President Obama's new chief of staff, the first thing I'd tell him is that you can't make an omelet if you're worried about breaking a few eggs. The midterms proved that America is a center-right country.

Opinion: Fed policy, uninformed voters are irksome following midterm election (associatedcontent) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PST associatedcontent - I delighted in the landslide GOP win in Congress, but that moment of happiness was tempered with three main concerns: the Fed, unemployment and uninformed voters.

Opinion: Is Jerry Brown sincere or overly hopeful? (associatedcontent) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PST associatedcontent - Now that the big Election Day has come and gone, the results have left Californian's wondering: What is next for the cash-strapped state?

Opinion: Will Boehner, GOP compromise or create gridlock? (associatedcontent) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PST associatedcontent - After the election on Nov. 2, my state of Indiana turned back red, as it usually has been. I was shocked Indiana turned blue in 2008. This state has always been conservative, and the city I live in, Fort Wayne, is just another manic red city.

Opinion: Anger pushed GOP into office; but is it the right emotion? (associatedcontent) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PST associatedcontent - The 2010 election results are not surprising. The pundits have been predicting just such an outcome for some time. What does concern me is that the voters seemed to be reacting rather than reasoning. Punishing the Democrats, because not everything was fixed as soon as we would like, seems like a self-defeating choice. Benjamin Franklin said, "Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one." Is it possible that the anger Americans are feeling may be causing us to make rash decisions?

AP-GfK Poll: Low hopes for political compromise (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:24 PM PST AP - This is one pessimistic country.

Absentee votes could be key in tight NY House race (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:33 PM PST AP - More than 10,000 absentee ballots appear to hold the key to deciding a tight New York congressional race in which fewer than 400 votes separate the candidates in a Long Island district.

Union responds to report on $150,000 salaries for federal workers (The Upshot) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:26 PM PST The Upshot - The number of federal workers paid over $150,000 per year has doubled since President Obama took office, and they now constitute about 10 times the proportion of that workforce compared with 2005, according to a USA Today analysis. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told the paper that he will try to block President Obama's plan to [...]

Nine Congress and governor races not yet decided (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:53 AM PST AP - Here are the congressional and gubernatorial races that remain uncalled after Tuesday's election:

How the poll was conducted (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:56 AM PST AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on politics and President Barack Obama was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Nov. 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,000 adults. Interviews were conducted with 700 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.

Why Democrats’ losses could grow in 2012 (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:05 AM PST Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Josh Kraushaar National Journal It's something of a professional hazard to make predictions this far out before the next election. Witness Karl Rove's anticipation early in the Bush years of a permanent Republican majority, or James Carville's boast in …

Does Rep. Issa see Obama as less corrupt after the elections? (associatedcontent) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:38 AM PST associatedcontent - Before the midterm elections Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) railed about the misconduct of the Obama administration and even went on Rush Limbaugh's radio show and told the uber-conservative pundit that President Barack Obama was "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times." With a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and Senate within sight, Congressman Issa vowed that as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee he would bring justice to Washington. But on CNN's "Situation Room," Darrell Issa stepped back a little from remarks he made during the campaign.

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