Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama woos senators on START nuclear treaty vote (AFP)
• Obama plans to sign repeal of gay ban Wednesday (AP)
• Barbour defends Miss. school integration account (AP)
• Timeline: 150th Anniversary of South Carolina's Secession (ContributorNetwork)
• Ivory Coast seeks election help from US lawyer (AP)
• RNC chair candidate proposes ballot measures (AP)
• US says time for Ivory Coast's Gbagbo to go (AFP)
• Ron Paul not ruling out 2012 presidential run, says decision to come at beginning of the year (Daily Caller)
• Hawaii preparing another aloha for President Obama (AP)
• Quiet deal on Obama's judge nominees in the Senate (AP)
• US says Belarus results not legitimate (AFP)
• Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year (AP)
• Unrepentant Lukashenko defies West over crackdown (Reuters)
• White House says it's time for Ivory Coast's Gbagbo to go (Reuters)
• SPIN METER: Tax deal doesn't mean future accords (AP)
• Underground actors seek last act for Belarus leader (Reuters)
• White House: START treaty will be ratified (AP)
• Schumer warns Obama of ‘hard right’ in Congress aiming to bring America ‘back to the 19th century’ (Daily Caller)

Obama woos senators on START nuclear treaty vote (AFP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 05:32 PM PST AFP - President Barack Obama and his top military and diplomatic advisers pressed wary lawmakers to back a landmark arms control treaty with Russia on the eve of a key senate test vote on the accord.

Obama plans to sign repeal of gay ban Wednesday (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:44 PM PST AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will sign the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members on Wednesday morning at a Department of Interior auditorium.

Barbour defends Miss. school integration account (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 03:43 PM PST AP - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential candidate, rebutted critics Monday who said he is sugar-coating his state's history of racial integration.

Timeline: 150th Anniversary of South Carolina's Secession (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 02:46 PM PST ContributorNetwork - The election of Abraham Lincoln, a former congressman and a known opponent of slavery, as president of the United States provoked outrage to the point of hysteria in the southern slave-holding states of the Union.

Ivory Coast seeks election help from US lawyer (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 02:09 PM PST AP - Embattled Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo has hired a prominent American lawyer to determine ways to peacefully resolve the postelection crisis in that West African country.

RNC chair candidate proposes ballot measures (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 01:46 PM PST AP - A candidate to lead the Republican National Committee warned Monday that the GOP will hand a second term to Democratic President Barack Obama if the party doesn't elect a chairman who can harness voters' frustrations, prevent a third-party presidential candidacy and raise money quickly.

US says time for Ivory Coast's Gbagbo to go (AFP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 01:42 PM PST AFP - The Obama administration on Monday urged Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down and threatened sanctions against him and his family within days, saying there is no doubt he had lost a disputed presidential vote.

Ron Paul not ruling out 2012 presidential run, says decision to come at beginning of the year (Daily Caller) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:40 PM PST Daily Caller - On Sunday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” 2008 Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian favorite, addressed his 2012 prospects. He told NPR’s Guy Raz that a presidential run is still a possibility.

Hawaii preparing another aloha for President Obama (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:39 PM PST AP - While President Barack Obama's standing in Washington has dropped a notch or two in the year since he and his family last spent their holiday vacation in this beach community, the thrill is definitely not gone for many Kailuans about him coming back.

Quiet deal on Obama's judge nominees in the Senate (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:02 PM PST AP - After a monthslong blockade, Senate Republicans have agreed to let at least 19 of President Barack Obama's non-controversial judicial nominees win confirmation in the waning days of the congressional session in exchange for a commitment by Democrats not to seek votes on four others, according to officials familiar with the deal.

US says Belarus results not legitimate (AFP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:48 PM PST AFP - The United States said Monday it did not consider results of the elections in Belarus legitimate, as violence broke out after President Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner by a landslide.

Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:58 AM PST AP - Barack Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year got off to a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start.

Unrepentant Lukashenko defies West over crackdown (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:52 AM PST Reuters - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko vowed on Monday to thwart any attempt at "revolution" after police broke up mass protests against his re-election and arrested his opponents.

White House says it's time for Ivory Coast's Gbagbo to go (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:33 AM PST Reuters - The White House on Monday repeated its call for Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to stand down or face targeted sanctions after a November 28 election that the United Nations says he lost.

SPIN METER: Tax deal doesn't mean future accords (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:33 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are congratulating themselves for their bipartisan tax-cut compromise, hoping to be viewed as pragmatists who can work across party lines.

Underground actors seek last act for Belarus leader (Reuters) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:23 AM PST Reuters - Deep snow smothered the noise. Only fresh footprints leading to the tumbledown house in a suburb of the Belarussian capital Minsk betrayed life behind its boarded-up windows.

White House: START treaty will be ratified (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:14 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama's chief spokesman says the White House believes the Senate will ratify an arms treaty with Russia before Congress adjourns this year.

Schumer warns Obama of ‘hard right’ in Congress aiming to bring America ‘back to the 19th century’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 09:35 AM PST Daily Caller - On "Good Morning America” Monday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Charles Schumer how well he thought Barack Obama is working with Congress and what advice he'd give the president.

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