Yahoo! News: Elections

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• APNewsBreak: Pawlenty memoir highlights faith (AP)
• Obama granting Super Bowl interview to Fox News (AP)
• Meet the new boss: Daley is Obama chief of staff (AP)
• CBO: Health care repeal would increase deficit (AP)
• Vt. gov. takes office after lawmakers elect him (AP)
• Priorities for New State Legislature, Governor in Pennsylvania (ContributorNetwork)
• California Republicans pressed to honor no-tax pledge (Reuters)
• Bill O’Reilly to chat with Obama for pre-Super Bowl interview (Daily Caller)
• GOP strikes early in global warming battle (AP)
• Obama chooses William Daley as chief of staff (AP)
• US blacklists Ivory Coast president, inner circle (AP)
• Obama names JPMorgan's Daley as top aide (Reuters)
• Anti-Obama heckler disrupts US Congress (AFP)
• 112th Congress Begins Difficult Road Ahead (ContributorNetwork)
• McCain calls out NYT’s Friedman on Iraq, Afghanistan (Daily Caller)
• McCain to make five-country LatAm visit (AFP)
• Obama introduces new chief of staff (Politico)
• Robert Gibbs Timeline (ContributorNetwork)
• Reaction to Robert Gibbs' Departure (ContributorNetwork)
• Obama nearing decision on Daley as top aide (Reuters)

APNewsBreak: Pawlenty memoir highlights faith (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:31 PM PST AP - Republican Tim Pawlenty, trying to carve out a national identity as he tilts toward a presidential campaign, sculpts an image as a faith-based politician in a memoir infused with Bible verses and the flavor of his blue-collar upbringing.

Obama granting Super Bowl interview to Fox News (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:19 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama will sit for an interview with Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly on Super Bowl Sunday.

Meet the new boss: Daley is Obama chief of staff (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:00 PM PST AP - Overhauling his team at the top, President Barack Obama on Thursday named banker and seasoned political fighter William Daley as his new chief of staff, hoping to rejuvenate both a White House storming into re-election mode and an economy still gasping for help.

CBO: Health care repeal would increase deficit (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST AP - Repealing President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul would add billions to government red ink and leave millions without coverage, Congress' nonpartisan budget referees said Thursday ahead of a politically charged vote in the House.

Vt. gov. takes office after lawmakers elect him (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST AP - Vowing not to raise taxes — at least for now — Democrat Peter Shumlin took office as Vermont's 81st governor Thursday just hours after lawmakers elected him because he couldn't get enough votes on Election Day.

Priorities for New State Legislature, Governor in Pennsylvania (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:23 PM PST ContributorNetwork - In a state that historically votes Democratic in any election, Pennsylvania recently elected a new Republican-controlled State House with the entrance of the 2011 New Year. With the many pressing issues that the new Republican administration will have to address, what should the policy makers focus their actions on this coming year?

California Republicans pressed to honor no-tax pledge (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:20 PM PST Reuters - A prominent Washington activist is calling on Republican lawmakers in California to stick to an anti-tax pledge, a risk to a special election for raising revenue that Governor Jerry Brown is widely expected to ask the legislature to support.

Bill O’Reilly to chat with Obama for pre-Super Bowl interview (Daily Caller) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:03 PM PST Daily Caller - Read more stories from The Daily CallerConstitution reading accidentally omits passagesCNBC's Santelli rants about NY Times and other critics of congressional Constitution readingNPR defunding calls heat up in first week of new CongressNothin' but paint: Jessica Szohr's sexy Lifewater ad [SLIDESHOW]Christie signs 'Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights' into law

GOP strikes early in global warming battle (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 02:40 PM PST AP - House Republicans wasted no time Thursday in trying to block the Obama administration from acting to stem global warming.

Obama chooses William Daley as chief of staff (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 02:07 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama named veteran political manager William Daley to be his new chief of staff Thursday, selecting a centrist with Wall Street ties to help navigate a newly divided Congress and a looming re-election.

US blacklists Ivory Coast president, inner circle (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 01:13 PM PST AP - Frustrated by the refusal of Ivory Coast's president to cede power, the Obama administration slapped wide-ranging sanctions Thursday on the African leader and members of his inner circle as punishment for refusing to accept his loss in a democratic election in November.

Obama names JPMorgan's Daley as top aide (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:56 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday named JPMorgan Chase executive William Daley as his chief of staff, bringing a politically seasoned businessman into the White House to help trigger job growth as he grapples with resurgent Republicans.

Anti-Obama heckler disrupts US Congress (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:50 AM PST AFP - A woman screaming that President Barack Obama was not legitimately elected to the White House disrupted a symbolic reading of the US Constitution in the House of Representatives on Thursday.

112th Congress Begins Difficult Road Ahead (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:08 AM PST ContributorNetwork - With the 112th Congress now convened, the nation watches and waits to see how, and if, the new makeup will change things. After two years of relentless campaigning, Republicans now control the House. With the House under GOP rule, and the Senate still run by Democrats, it could be a rough legislative road ahead. As such, no one knows what the legacy of the 112th Congress will be, especially once the 2012 election gets closer.

McCain calls out NYT’s Friedman on Iraq, Afghanistan (Daily Caller) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:59 AM PST Daily Caller - Read more stories from The Daily CallerConstitution reading accidentally omits passagesCNBC's Santelli rants about NY Times and other critics of congressional Constitution readingNPR defunding calls heat up in first week of new CongressNothin' but paint: Jessica Szohr's sexy Lifewater ad [SLIDESHOW]Christie signs 'Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights' into law

McCain to make five-country LatAm visit (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 02:55 PM PST AFP - Senior US Senator John McCain will travel to Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Mexico to promote expanding free trade and security cooperation in the Americas, his office said Thursday.

Obama introduces new chief of staff (Politico) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:35 AM PST Politico - President Barack Obama on Thursday introduced William Daley as his new chief of staff, tapping a political heavyweight with an unusual combination of high-level experience both in the business world and in Washington to oversee the White House as it grapples with a more Republican Congress and prepares for the president's expected re-election campaign in 2012.

Robert Gibbs Timeline (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:26 AM PST ContributorNetwork - Robert Gibbs announced his resignation as White House press secretary effective in early February to be involved with President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and to hit the speaking circuit.

Reaction to Robert Gibbs' Departure (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:26 AM PST ContributorNetwork - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced Wednesday that he was leaving his post as President Barack Obama's chief spokesman toward the end of January. The 39-year-old from Alabama will continue working for Obama, this time serving as the president's private-sector consultant in preparation for the 2012 re-election campaign.

Obama nearing decision on Daley as top aide (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 08:45 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama was nearing a decision on Thursday on whether to pick JP Morgan Chase executive William Daley to be his new White House chief of staff as part of a major retooling of his team.

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