Yahoo! News: Elections

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• New Hampshire GOP picks tea party-style leader (AP)
• Mourners recall Sarge Shriver's charity, idealism (AP)
• Obama marks anniversary of abortion rights case (AP)
• State of the Union speech to focus on jobs: Obama (Reuters)
• Cowen resigns as party leader but remains Irish PM (Reuters)
• Obama pushes trade agenda ahead of big speech (Reuters)
• Mitt Romney easily wins New Hampshire Republican poll (Reuters)
• Irish PM quits as party leader (AFP)
• Obama pitches open markets as key to jobs (AP)
• Obama says opening markets key to jobs (AP)
• Hawaii law bars release of Obama birth info (AP)
• Obama goal: 'Putting the economy into overdrive' (AP)
• All eyes on Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst in Senate race (AP)
• Revived Obama faces tough State of Union challenge (Reuters)
• Obama launches new push for US jobs, tapping GE's Immelt to help (The Christian Science Monitor)

New Hampshire GOP picks tea party-style leader (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 05:08 PM PST AP - New Hampshire Republicans elected a tea party figure as their leader and rejected the establishment-backed candidate, a sign that activists in this early voting presidential state have embraced the anti-government message that helped them make major gains in November's election.

Mourners recall Sarge Shriver's charity, idealism (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST AP - R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s — an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure.

Obama marks anniversary of abortion rights case (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 02:34 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is marking the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision on abortion by calling the procedure a constitutional right he's committed to protecting.

State of the Union speech to focus on jobs: Obama (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 02:02 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would use his annual State of the Union address to urge both parties to act to lift U.S. growth and create more jobs.

Cowen resigns as party leader but remains Irish PM (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:37 PM PST Reuters - Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen bowed to pressure from members of the Fianna Fail party on Saturday and resigned as its leader, but said he would serve as premier until a March 11 election.

Obama pushes trade agenda ahead of big speech (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:58 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama called on Saturday for new efforts to open global markets to U.S. goods, highlighting trade before a big speech on Tuesday that will lay out his policy priorities for the coming year.

Mitt Romney easily wins New Hampshire Republican poll (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:50 PM PST Reuters - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney easily won a poll of several hundred Republican delegates Saturday about whom they would choose to take on Democrat Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.

Irish PM quits as party leader (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:21 PM PST AFP - Ireland's embattled Prime Minister Brian Cowen announced Saturday he was stepping down as leader of his Fianna Fail party but would remain as the country's premier ahead of the March 11 general election.

Obama pitches open markets as key to jobs (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 07:43 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama pitched freer trade as a prescription for U.S. job growth Saturday and said the nation must spare no effort to open markets abroad.

Obama says opening markets key to jobs (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 03:11 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama says one of the most important things he can do to create jobs and help U.S. businesses is to open up more markets around the world to American goods.

Hawaii law bars release of Obama birth info (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 01:56 AM PST AP - A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.

Obama goal: 'Putting the economy into overdrive' (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 12:50 AM PST AP - More than half the nation disapproves of President Barack Obama's policies to reduce stubbornly high unemployment, a new Associated Press-GfK poll said Friday as Obama refocused his job-creation efforts on a business-friendly vision emphasizing innovation and exports to other countries.

All eyes on Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst in Senate race (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 08:59 PM PST AP - With considerable personal wealth and one of the most powerful jobs in Texas state government, Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is considered the early favorite to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The key word being "early."

Revived Obama faces tough State of Union challenge (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 07:15 PM PST Reuters - His poll numbers are on the rise after a tough year, he has recaptured some of his old oratorical magic and a few pundits are even debating whether he's becoming the new "comeback kid."

Obama launches new push for US jobs, tapping GE's Immelt to help (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:17 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama on Friday called for a new effort to put the economy into job-creation "overdrive," naming General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head an advisory panel on the issue.

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