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Yahoo! News: Elections

Spring brings fundraising frenzy for GOP hopefuls (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2011 file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Now this is a fundraising frenzy. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential exploratory campaign is organizing a big phone bank fundraiser in Las Vegas next month. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been holding “friendraising” meetings in places like Florida, Puerto Rico, Nevada and California. And Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has been meeting finance and political operatives in California, Florida and New York while also making more traditional campaign stops in early voting states. GOP presidential hopefuls are scurrying behind the scenes in a cut-throat dash to raise cash and assemble influential backers during the key April-June fundraising period. With the 2012 primary campaign off to a relatively late start, the candidates are under intense pressure to demonstrate their credibility this quarter before a slower summer fundraising season kicks in. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Mitt Romney is organizing a phone bank fundraiser in Las Vegas next month. Tim Pawlenty is holding regular "friendraising" meetings in big-money California and elsewhere. Haley Barbour hunkers down soon with finance operatives in cash-rich New York and other lucrative places.

Trump and Bachmann Woo GOP Voters in South Carolina (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 07:47 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - The Palmetto State has picked the GOP nominee every year since it began holding the first-in-the-South primary in 1980. Patricia Murphy visits and finds lots of love for two unlikely candidates.

Trump's Birther Issue Distracts from Real Politics (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:03 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Donald Trump's possible run for the White House may be the best thing to happen to President Obama's re-election bid.

Donald Trump: 'I Don't Want to Listen to Karl Rove' (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:51 AM PDT

ContributorNetwork - The man who inspired the documentary "Bush's Brain" and was the political mastermind behind George W. Bush's presidency got no vote of confidence from potential GOP candidate Donald Trump during a recent interview on Fox News.

Obama attends Easter service at historic church (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 09:41 AM PDT

President Barack Obama departs the White House en route to Easter worship services at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, Sunday, April 24, 2011. He was joined by first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama and his family attended Easter service Sunday at a Washington church founded in 1863 by freed slaves.

Bloomberg noncommittal on Trump presidential talk (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 9, 2011 file photo, Donald Trump arrives at a Comedy Central Roast in New York. The New York City Board of Elections says Donald Trump didn't vote in any primary elections for 21 years, The Associated Press reports Saturday, April 23, 2011. TV station NY1 was the first to report the information. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)AP - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls real estate tycoon Donald Trump a friend and says "anybody can run for president if you're 35 and an American citizen."

Giffords standing on own, trying to improve gait (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:43 PM PDT

FILE - Dr. Gerard Francisco, chief medical officer of TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation center, speaks at a press conference regarding the treatment planned for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at the hospital in this Jan. 26, 2011 file photo taken in Houston. Francisco says the Arizona congresswoman is able to make limited use of her right arm and leg. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)AP - Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk a little and is even trying to improve her gait. But the report Sunday in The Arizona Republic adds the congresswoman herself is planning to "walk a mountain."

Pa. official: End nears for wastewater releases (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2010 file photo, Jim Riggio, the plant manager for the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, shows the filtering rig that the treatment plant used to develop improvements in the treatment of the water at the intake facility in Beaver Falls, Pa. Citing potentially unsafe drinking water, on Tuesday April 19, 2011, Pennsylvania state called on companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation to stop taking wastewater to 15 treatment plants by May 19, 2011. The announcement was a major change in the state's regulation of gas drilling and came the same day that an industry group said it now believes drilling wastewater is partly at fault for rising levels of bromide being found in Pittsburgh-area rivers. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)AP - Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator says he is confident that the natural gas industry is just weeks away from ending one of its more troubling environmental practices: the discharge of vast amounts of polluted brine into rivers used for drinking water.

Kelly: Giffords cleared to attend shuttle launch (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shows her, left, with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. Looking back on the horror of Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, this seems miraculous today: that Kelly would indeed command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and that his wounded wife would be in Florida watching. Yet that is what is expected to happen Friday, April 29, 2011 provided doctors approve her travel. The Kelly-Giffords ordeal has been a national drama since the congresswoman was shot in the head at a meet-and-greet in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File)AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attend husband Mark Kelly's space shuttle launch in Florida on Friday, Kelly said, allowing the Arizona congresswoman to travel for the first time since she was flown from Tucson to Houston more than three months ago to recover from a gunshot wound to the head.

"I miss Tucson", says recovering Congresswoman Giffords (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords still struggles to piece together lengthy sentences, but one short phrase she repeats is: "I miss Tucson," the Arizona Republic newspaper reported on Sunday.

Giffords cleared to view shuttle launch: husband (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 03:27 PM PDT

Astronaut Mark Kelly, pictured in February 2011, says his wife, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has been cleared to attend his space shuttle launch after recovering steadily from a brain injury sustained in a shooting.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Eric Kayne)AFP - Astronaut Mark Kelly says his wife, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has been cleared to attend his space shuttle launch after recovering steadily from a brain injury sustained in a shooting.

Past House GOP tactic proves useless to Democrats (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2010 file photo, then-House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio addresses the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. As the minority party, House Republicans drove Democrats crazy with an obscure maneuver called the “motion to recommit” used to change, delay and even kill legislation. Now, one might assume, the minority Democrats have their chance at payback. It’s not happening. Republican leaders may be having troubles keeping their conservative troops in line on budgetary and social issues, but when it comes to keeping Democrats in their place, there’s near ironclad unity. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)AP - A year ago, when Republicans were in the minority on Capitol Hill, they drove Democrats crazy by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to change, delay and even kill Democratic priorities.

Egypt secular parties in race for credibility (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 06:51 AM PDT

Reuters - Political groups with a secular vision of Egypt are racing to build a coalition to compete against the nation's better established Islamists in parliamentary elections planned for September.

Spain's Socialists to lose key regions in May vote: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:35 AM PDT

Reuters - Spain's Socialists are set to lose a May election in all of the regions where it currently governs, paying the price for high unemployment and an unpopular austerity drive, a poll published Sunday showed.

Costly gasoline clouds Obama re-election prospects (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:26 AM PDT

President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, April 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue.

Clear economic victory eludes Obama as vote nears (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 08:26 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama, pictured, does not yet know the identity of his 2012 Republican challenger, but his toughest reelection challenge could be to convince voters the economy is in steady hands.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - Barack Obama does not yet know the identity of his 2012 Republican challenger, but his toughest reelection challenge could be to convince voters the economy is in steady hands.

Yemen protesters reject US-backed transition (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 12:11 PM PDT

A Yemeni woman takes part in anti-government protests calling for the departure of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa. Yemen's protest movement insisted Sunday on Saleh's rapid exit and prosecution after his party accepted a Gulf plan for him to quit in 30 days in a move hailed by Washington.(AFP/Mohammed Huwais)AFP - Yemen's protest movement insisted Sunday on President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rapid exit and prosecution after his party accepted a Gulf plan for him to quit in 30 days in a move hailed by Washington.

How Celebrity Apprentice Prepares Trump for the Presidency (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 07:14 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - He's surrounded by suck-ups, gets his intel secondhand, and wields his immense power erratically. Andy Dehnart on how Celebrity Apprentice has prepared Trump for the presidency.

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