Yahoo! News: Elections

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• All eyes on Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst in Senate race (AP)
• Abortion foes upbeat, see chance for tougher curbs (AP)
• Florida Rep. Ros-Lehtinin Skips Obama's State Dinner (ContributorNetwork)
• Obama goal: 'Putting the economy into overdrive' (AP)
• Democrat urges Obama to target minority hardships (AP)
• AP-GfK Poll: Obama popular but doubts on progress (AP)
• Obama names GE's Immelt to lead fresh push on jobs (Reuters)
• Michelle Obama going on Oprah Winfrey show Thurs. (AP)
• Obama administration focused more on ‘green’ part of ‘green jobs’ rhetoric (Daily Caller)
• Revived Obama faces tough State of Union challenge (Reuters)
• Obama names Immelt head of new economic advisory council (Daily Caller)
• Obama's daughter, Sasha, practices Chinese with Hu (Reuters)
• Obama to name GE chief as top jobs adviser (AFP)
• Obama to host mayors, visit plant in NY (AP)
• How the poll was conducted (AP)
• Obama says Paul Volcker stepping down as adviser (Reuters)
• W.H. reboots on economic advice (Politico)

All eyes on Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst in Senate race (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:47 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."

Abortion foes upbeat, see chance for tougher curbs (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:17 PM PST AP - Buoyed by huge election gains for their allies, anti-abortion activists head into their annual March for Life rallies sensing a prime opportunity in many states to rein in the broad abortion access established 38 years ago by the Roe v. Wade decision.

Florida Rep. Ros-Lehtinin Skips Obama's State Dinner (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:03 PM PST ContributorNetwork - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who represents South Florida's 18th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, is being criticized for skipping President Obama's Jan. 19 state dinner where the guest of honor was China's President, Hu Jintao.

Obama goal: 'Putting the economy into overdrive' (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:51 PM 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.

Democrat urges Obama to target minority hardships (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 12:44 PM PST AP - The top-ranking African-American in Congress called on President Barack Obama Friday to sharpen his focus on hard-hit minority communities in his plans for bolstering the economy.

AP-GfK Poll: Obama popular but doubts on progress (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 11:45 AM PST AP - Thumbs up for President Barack Obama's personality. Thumbs down for his progress.

Obama names GE's Immelt to lead fresh push on jobs (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 11:28 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama, in another shift toward the political center, named General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt on Friday as a top outside economic adviser to help lift hiring.

Michelle Obama going on Oprah Winfrey show Thurs. (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:59 AM PST AP - Michelle Obama is going on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

Obama administration focused more on ‘green’ part of ‘green jobs’ rhetoric (Daily Caller) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:08 AM PST Daily Caller - Read more stories from The Daily CallerChris Matthews' back-patting: Claims to know when he's 'making an ass' of himselfVermont governor wants state single-payer system by 2014Rep. Michele Bachmann to deliver Tea Party response to State of the UnionMetro pirates raid train on Washington's Orange LineBureau of Labor Statistics report shows union membership in decline

Revived Obama faces tough State of Union challenge (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 08:51 AM 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 names Immelt head of new economic advisory council (Daily Caller) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 08:10 AM PST Daily Caller - Read more stories from The Daily CallerChris Matthews' back-patting: Claims to know when he's 'making an ass' of himselfVermont governor wants state single-payer system by 2014Rep. Michele Bachmann to deliver Tea Party response to State of the UnionMetro pirates raid train on Washington's Orange LineBureau of Labor Statistics report shows union membership in decline

Obama's daughter, Sasha, practices Chinese with Hu (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:23 AM PST Reuters - Talk about a high level language exchange.

Obama to name GE chief as top jobs adviser (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:22 AM PST AFP - President Barack Obama will name the head of General Electric to lead his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, the White House announced Friday.

Obama to host mayors, visit plant in NY (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:01 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama hosts a White House reception Friday for mayors attending the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

How the poll was conducted (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 12:45 AM PST AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Barack Obama was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Jan. 5-10. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,001 adults. Interviews were conducted with 701 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.

Obama says Paul Volcker stepping down as adviser (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:18 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama announced Thursday that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was stepping down from his role as head of an outside panel advising the White House on economic policy.

W.H. reboots on economic advice (Politico) Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:01 PM PST Politico - Signaling a shift to a new phase of the administration’s response to the nation’s economic woes, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Friday establishing a new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness that will be led by General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt. The signing coincides with a visit to a GE branch in Schenectady, N.Y., the birthplace of the company.

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