Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Mitt Romney’s hurdles in 2012: The Fast Fix (The Newsroom)
• Obama reelect's first job: Reconnect (Politico)
• Likely GOP contenders plot tea party strategies (AP)
• Supporters donate $358,000 to Giffords campaign (AP)
• Judge appoints psychiatrist for Loughner's exam (AP)
• Obama: Congress must — and will — raise debt limit (AP)
• Obama to Republicans: "You think we're stupid?" (Reuters)
• Protective order extended against Palin stalker (AP)
• Obama signing statement: despite law, I can do what I want on czars (Daily Caller)
• Ariz. plows controversial ground with birther bill (AP)
• Obama signs spending bill he negotiated with GOP (AP)
• Oops: An open microphone night for the president (AP)
• Republican judge nears Wisconsin election win (Reuters)
• Pelosi: House Dems shut out but helped pass budget (AP)
• Congress Passes 2011 Budget. Now What? (Time.com)
• Canvass shows conservative wins Wis. court race (AP)

Mitt Romney’s hurdles in 2012: The Fast Fix (The Newsroom) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 05:09 AM PDT The Newsroom - Health care? His Mormon religion? What will be Mitt Romney's biggest hurdle in his 2012 presidential campaign? Get The Fix in your e-mail inbox! Click here to sign-up for the Morning Fix newsletter. Click here for the Afternoon Fix newsletter. …

Obama reelect's first job: Reconnect (Politico) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:39 AM PDT Politico - CHICAGO — President Barack Obama's fledgling reelection campaign is building a volunteer network with the audacious goal of contacting every single person who voted for him in 2008, as part of a reinvented voter outreach that will be as focused on smart phones in 2012 as it was on text messages last time.

Likely GOP contenders plot tea party strategies (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 05:17 PM PDT AP - It's a tricky time of courtship.

Supporters donate $358,000 to Giffords campaign (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:28 PM PDT AP - Donors from around the country have donated about $358,000 to the re-election campaign of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the event she attempts to seek political office again.

Judge appoints psychiatrist for Loughner's exam (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:26 PM PDT AP - An Arizona judge on Friday appointed a San Diego psychiatrist to conduct a mental competency exam for the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage after defense attorneys raised concerns about federal psychiatrists.

Obama: Congress must — and will — raise debt limit (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:48 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama confidently predicted Friday that a divided Congress would raise the nation's borrowing limit to cover the staggering federal debt rather than risk triggering a worldwide recession, but he conceded for the first time he would have to offer more spending cuts to Republicans to get a deal.

Obama to Republicans: "You think we're stupid?" (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:47 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said he challenged Republicans to try to repeal his landmark healthcare reform in private budget talks last week, taunting his opponents with a question: "You think we're stupid?"

Protective order extended against Palin stalker (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 05:36 PM PDT AP - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has won another protective order against a Pennsylvania man accused of stalking the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and her family.

Obama signing statement: despite law, I can do what I want on czars (Daily Caller) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:33 PM PDT Daily Caller - In marked contrast to vows as a candidate not to use presidential signing statements as “an end run around Congress,” President Obama released a statement on the just-signed spending bill saying despite the law's restrictions on “czars,” he will “construe” the law not to interfere with “presidential prerogatives.”

Ariz. plows controversial ground with birther bill (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:26 PM PDT AP - Arizona, a state that has shown little reluctance in bucking the federal government, is again plowing controversial political ground, this time as its Legislature passed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state's ballot.

Obama signs spending bill he negotiated with GOP (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:38 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama signed a six-month spending bill Friday that cuts more than $38 billion from the current budget. The legislation averted a government shutdown and was the result of intense negotiations between the White House and emboldened Republicans.

Oops: An open microphone night for the president (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:38 PM PDT AP - Now that the reporters were gone, President Barack Obama had some private thoughts to share with about 50 donors.

Republican judge nears Wisconsin election win (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:32 PM PDT Reuters - The Republican incumbent in Wisconsin's closely watched Supreme Court race was one step closer to being officially declared the winner on Friday after officials finished their review of the closely-watched vote.

Pelosi: House Dems shut out but helped pass budget (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:26 PM PDT AP - Their votes required to pass a budget for the year, House Democrats expect a bigger role in the upcoming fiscal showdowns and other matters in which House Speaker John Boehner can't muster a GOP majority, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday.

Congress Passes 2011 Budget. Now What? (Time.com) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:05 PM PDT Time.com - After weeks of bickering over the 2011 budget, when it finally came time to cast ballots nobody seemed quite sure what to do

Canvass shows conservative wins Wis. court race (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:24 PM PDT AP - A conservative state Supreme Court justice overcame efforts to tie him to Wisconsin's polarizing governor and survived a near-upset in a race that drew national attention after a fierce fight over union rights.

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