Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Alaska senate hopeful finally concedes defeat (AFP)
• Miller says he's ending legal fight, conceding (AP)
• Hungary, under fire over media law, takes over EU presidency (AFP)
• Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com)
• Clock ticking as I.Coast's Ouattara issues ultimatum (AFP)
• Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation (AP)
• Will Obama’s lame-duck dealmaking survive in the new year? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• I.Coast's Ouattara gives Gbagbo midnight deadline (AFP)
• Gay Republican and possible 2012 presidential candidate Fred Karger talks to theDC (Daily Caller)

Alaska senate hopeful finally concedes defeat (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST AFP - Alaskan Tea Party Senate candidate Joe Miller finally conceded defeat Friday, nearly two months after an election result he had appealed against as far as the state's supreme court.

Miller says he's ending legal fight, conceding (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST AP - Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

Hungary, under fire over media law, takes over EU presidency (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 03:38 PM PST AFP - Hungary took the helm of the European Union on Saturday even as a new law which sparked concern about media freedom in the country came into force in the teeth of fierce opposition.

Christine O'Donnell Thinks Joe Biden, Not Witchcraft, Is After Her (Time.com) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:50 PM PST Time.com - She claims the issue was not confusion over the law, but a vindictive Vice President Joe Biden, who beat O'Donnell by nearly 30 percentage points in the 2008 elections.

Clock ticking as I.Coast's Ouattara issues ultimatum (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 12:36 PM PST AFP - Ivory Coast on Friday faced the threat of open conflict as self-proclaimed president Laurent Gbagbo vowed not to yield to pressure to step down and his rival gave him until midnight to quit.

Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 10:32 AM PST AP - There are those who crave adventure and spontaneity during their vacations. Then, there's President Barack Obama.

Will Obama’s lame-duck dealmaking survive in the new year? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 09:10 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama and Congress proved during the lame-duck session that they can work together to resolve big and thorny issues, but that remarkable show of bipartisanship in all likelihood will be short-lived.

I.Coast's Ouattara gives Gbagbo midnight deadline (AFP) Posted: 31 Dec 2010 08:46 AM PST AFP - Ivory Coast's internationally recognised presidential election winner Alassane Ouattara has given rival Laurent Gbagbo until midnight Friday to quit, Ouattara's prime minister Guillaume Soro said.

Gay Republican and possible 2012 presidential candidate Fred Karger talks to theDC (Daily Caller) Posted: 30 Dec 2010 09:42 PM PST Daily Caller - “I don't know about the next election, but I think in the near future," said former President Jimmy Carter recently when asked about the possibility of America electing a gay president. Carter argued that because the country voted for an African-American president two years ago before coming close to nominating the first woman candidate, the country could be open to a gay one.

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