Yahoo! News: Elections

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• AP: Gingrich to start testing presidential bid (AP)
• Former White House counsel now working for Edwards (AP)
• Robert F. Kennedy assassin faces parole board (AFP)
• Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii won't seek re-election (AP)
• Lawmakers set March 10 date for Muslim hearings (AFP)
• Miss. mom charged after son's body found in oven (AP)
• Fox News takes Gingrich and Santorum off air for now (Reuters)
• Obama's View of DOMA Challenges More Than Religious Gay Marriage Arguments (ContributorNetwork)
• Ex-Governor Roemer to launch presidential bid (Reuters)
• Democrats ready spending bill with few cuts: aide (Reuters)
• Wisconsin fines runaway Democrats over union plan (Reuters)
• Web, billboards spark leads on East Coast Rapist (AP)
• White House seeks $15 billion from federal property sales (Reuters)
• Mikhail Gorbachev, 80, Shares His Thoughts on Perestroika, Glasnost, Obama (ContributorNetwork)
• Barbour says Obama cheers for higher gas prices (AP)
• Former Louisiana governor running for Republican presidential nomination (Daily Caller)
• Coburn knocks Gingrich (Daily Caller)
• New governors may outshine White House hopefuls (AP)

AP: Gingrich to start testing presidential bid (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PST AP - A spokesman for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the former House speaker will begin raising money to test whether a bid for the GOP presidential nomination is feasible.

Former White House counsel now working for Edwards (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama's former lawyer has signed on to help former presidential candidate John Edwards as he tries to ward off a criminal indictment over payments to his ex-mistress.

Robert F. Kennedy assassin faces parole board (AFP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:54 PM PST AFP - The assassin who killed US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 faced a parole board on Wednesday, his 14th such hearing since he was convicted, officials said.

Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii won't seek re-election (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:49 PM PST AP - Democratic U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii announced Wednesday he won't run for re-election next year after 22 years in the Senate.

Lawmakers set March 10 date for Muslim hearings (AFP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:47 PM PST AFP - A key US congressional panel will hold a hearing March 10 into the radicalization of US Muslims, even as some lawmakers charge the goal is to tar an entire population as possible extremists.

Miss. mom charged after son's body found in oven (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PST AP - A Mississippi mother was arrested Wednesday in the death of her 3-year-old son after authorities said they found the child's burned body in an oven. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said police found Tristan Robinson's body inside the electric oven at his mother's apartment shortly after midnight. Johnson said the child had been burned in the oven, but an autopsy was ordered to determine whether he died before or after being put there.

Fox News takes Gingrich and Santorum off air for now (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:30 PM PST Reuters - Fox News said Wednesday it was taking off the air two prominent Republican analysts because they appear to be preparing presidential campaigns, denying them a powerful platform to advocate their views.

Obama's View of DOMA Challenges More Than Religious Gay Marriage Arguments (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PST ContributorNetwork - ANALYSIS | Since Feb. 23, it's been widely understood that President Obama flat-out instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to stop defending DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) in general.

Ex-Governor Roemer to launch presidential bid (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:08 PM PST Reuters - Former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer said on Wednesday he plans to take a step toward a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 and campaign against business-as-usual in Washington.

Democrats ready spending bill with few cuts: aide (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PST Reuters - Senate Democrats are preparing a spending bill that yields no ground to House Republicans who are seeking deep cuts in government spending, a Democratic aide said on Wednesday.

Wisconsin fines runaway Democrats over union plan (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 02:13 PM PST Reuters - Wisconsin state Senate Republicans voted on Wednesday to impose fines of $100 a day on Democrats who have fled the state to block Republican Governor Scott Walker's plan to curb the power of public sector unions.

Web, billboards spark leads on East Coast Rapist (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 02:06 PM PST AP - A campaign to catch a man known as the East Coast Rapist by using electronic billboards and a website is generating leads, an investigator said Wednesday.

White House seeks $15 billion from federal property sales (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:59 PM PST Reuters - The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed a plan to save billions of taxpayer dollars by creating an independent board to speed up the sale of thousands of unneeded federal properties at home and abroad.

Mikhail Gorbachev, 80, Shares His Thoughts on Perestroika, Glasnost, Obama (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:51 PM PST ContributorNetwork - In 1987, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev reminded us that perestroika was not an "illumination or revelation." Perestroika was highly celebrated by his Western admirers. In Russia the changes during perestroika were often difficult and the attempted transition to a government designed with the best aspects of socialism and democracy was confusing to many citizens.

Barbour says Obama cheers for higher gas prices (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:46 PM PST AP - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential contender, accused the Obama administration Wednesday of favoring a run-up in gas prices to prod consumers to buy more fuel-efficient cars.

Former Louisiana governor running for Republican presidential nomination (Daily Caller) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:44 PM PST Daily Caller - Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer will announce this week his intention to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

Coburn knocks Gingrich (Daily Caller) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:36 PM PST Daily Caller - Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn expressed doubt Wednesday that likely Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has what it takes to be president. “He is undoubtedly the smartest man I've ever met,” Coburn said of the former Speaker of the House in an interview with C-SPAN. “He is a thinker. He has great vision. The question to me is, does he have the capability to lead the country? And having served under him in the House, he is probably not one that I would choose to support in a presidential primary."

New governors may outshine White House hopefuls (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:30 PM PST AP - What's wrong with this picture? While half a dozen current and former Republican governors weigh bids to challenge President Barack Obama, the party's lightning and thunder are coming from a different handful of governors, who threaten to overshadow those potential candidates.

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