Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama to consult with Seoul on response to North Korea (Reuters)
• Obama children's book sells 50,000 copies in five days (AP)
• Democratic Rep. Jim Costa holds on to Calif. seat (AP)
• Obama: eager to extend middle-class tax cuts (Reuters)
• Democrat concedes close House race in NY to GOP (AP)
• War report offers tempered optimism (AP)
• Palin book fuels speculation of White House bid (AFP)
• Obama orders pastries to go at Gingerbread bakery (AP)
• SPIN METER: Tea partiers' views far from others (AP)
• Afghan election body to release final result Wednesday (Reuters)
• Romantics struggle in Ibsen's 'Rosmersholm' (AP)
• How the poll was conducted (AP)
• Obama to speak to South Korea's Lee after attack (Reuters)
• Alaska candidate Miller sues over Senate election results (Reuters)
• Correction: Obama-Medal of Honor (AP)
• Irish PM fights for survival as euro fears resurface (AFP)
• EU urges feuding Irish not to delay budget (Reuters)
• Charges dropped in Obama e-mail threat case (AP)
• Auto industry success a hard sell for White House (AP)

Obama to consult with Seoul on response to North Korea (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:27 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would consult with South Korea's president on a response to North Korea's artillery attack and declined to speculate on possible military action.

Obama children's book sells 50,000 copies in five days (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:02 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama's latest book may not outsell "The Audacity of Hope," but it's off to a good start.

Democratic Rep. Jim Costa holds on to Calif. seat (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - Democratic Rep. Jim Costa has narrowly won enough votes to retain his seat in a California district where Democrats hold a 20-point registration advantage.

Obama: eager to extend middle-class tax cuts (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:28 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States must extend tax cuts for the middle class but could not afford to do so for the wealthy, laying out his position before next week's meeting on the issue with Republicans.

Democrat concedes close House race in NY to GOP (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 02:00 PM PST AP - A sixth Democratic House seat in New York fell to Republicans on Tuesday when freshman incumbent Dan Maffei conceded he could not overcome his opponent's narrow lead.

War report offers tempered optimism (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:28 PM PST AP - The Obama administration is citing some progress in the 9-year-old Afghanistan war in its latest biannual report to Congress, even as violence is on the rise and more Afghans say they fear for their safety.

Palin book fuels speculation of White House bid (AFP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:00 PM PST AFP - Sarah Palin kicked off a publicity tour Tuesday to promote a new book widely seen as a campaign manifesto ahead of a possible challenge to Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012.

Obama orders pastries to go at Gingerbread bakery (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 12:29 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama has a live-in pastry chef, but he quickly gave in to the temptations staring back at him from the display cases at a local bakery.

SPIN METER: Tea partiers' views far from others (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 12:23 PM PST AP - Tea party backers fashion themselves as "we the people," but polls show the Republican Party's most conservative and energized voters are hardly your average crowd.

Afghan election body to release final result Wednesday (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:44 AM PST Reuters - Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) will announce final results from a September 18 parliamentary election on Wednesday, an official said, after long delays while fraud complaints were investigated.

Romantics struggle in Ibsen's 'Rosmersholm' (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 10:29 AM PST AP - A politician wins an election, and the opposition party becomes enraged, not just at losing power but at the even worse possibility that voters might start thinking for themselves. Sounds like recent current events — but it's actually the politically repressed Norway of 1886 that Henrik Ibsen was writing about in his drama, "Rosmersholm."

How the poll was conducted (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:48 AM PST AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on the 2010 elections was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Nov. 3-8, 2010. 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.

Obama to speak to South Korea's Lee after attack (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:37 AM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will speak to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak after an artillery attack by the North on a South Korean island, White House spokesman Bill Burton said on Tuesday.

Alaska candidate Miller sues over Senate election results (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 07:30 AM PST Reuters - Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller filed suit in Alaska state court on Monday challenging the election victory of incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski and effectively halting certification of results.

Correction: Obama-Medal of Honor (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 07:25 AM PST AP - In a story Nov. 16 about President Barack Obama's presentation of the Medal of Honor, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was the first living medal recipient in nearly 40 years. During that period, the award has been presented a number of times to living recipients for heroic service in Vietnam.

Irish PM fights for survival as euro fears resurface (AFP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:30 PM PST AFP - Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen battled for his political survival Tuesday, while Germany said Ireland's international bailout showed the future of the euro itself was on the line.

EU urges feuding Irish not to delay budget (Reuters) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:32 PM PST Reuters - The European Union urged Ireland on Tuesday to adopt an austerity budget on time to unlock promised EU/IMF funding, in response to a deepening political crisis that could derail the financial rescue.

Charges dropped in Obama e-mail threat case (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 05:35 AM PST AP - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a Northern California man who was accused of sending an e-mail threatening to kill President Barack Obama and members of his family.

Auto industry success a hard sell for White House (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 03:40 AM PST AP - The auto industry is providing President Barack Obama a good news story — automakers are making money, plants are hiring and the taxpayers' stake in General Motors is dwindling. Things are looking up for the president in assembly line country — just not the voting.

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