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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3228 politics Politics - Politico en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:26:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3228 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091107/pl_politico/29262 politico/20091107/29262 Politico politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:26:00 GMT Politico - House leaders have won the backing of the nation’s Catholic bishops for a last-minute abortion compromise, a critical boost that could give the health reform bill enough momentum &ndash; and enough votes &ndash; for passage as early as Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091107/pl_politico/29240 politico/20091107/29240 Politico politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:54:00 GMT Politico - The House is expected to vote Saturday night on the Democrats’ health care bill, and nobody knows for sure how it will turn out. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091107/pl_politico/29253 politico/20091107/29253 Politico politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:53:00 GMT Politico - Back in June, pollster David Petts was the man with the answers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29250 politico/20091106/29250 Politico politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:42:00 GMT Politico - Democratic leaders trying to preserve a high-stakes Saturday vote on a House health reform bill battled a swift current of rank-and-file defections Friday as the White House swung into action to help corral the final votes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29237 politico/20091106/29237 Politico politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:13:00 GMT Politico - Of all the numbers swirling around this week Capitol Hill this week &ndash; health care whip counts, CBO estimates, winning and losing margins in Virginia, New York and New Jersey &ndash; one stands out from the rest: 10.2 percent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29233 politico/20091106/29233 Politico politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:16:00 GMT Politico - Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said anxious politicians in his party who face tough congressional races next year should settle their nerves by focusing less on this week’s governor’s races than on the special congressional elections that have taken place since President Barack Obama was sworn in.&nbsp; http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29229 politico/20091106/29229 Politico politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:40:00 GMT Politico - Democrats &ndash; headed into an historic health care vote this weekend &mdash; got smacked in the face with a 10.2 percent unemployment rate in October, the government reported Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29214 politico/20091106/29214 Politico politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:09:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29214"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257441773850-1-0.jpg?x=110&y=130&q=85&sig=cB.XcBIOl6gDaZR1fz.2YQ--" align="left" height="130" width="110" alt="Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Pelosi predicted Thursday that the Congress will approve a sweeping bill to overhaul US health care this year.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)" border="0" /></a>Politico - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conjured up plenty of old ghosts since launching the health care fight back in July, invoking Democrats who laid the foundation for this year’s push &mdash; like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29214"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091105/capt.photo_1257441773850-1-0.jpg?x=110&y=130&q=85&sig=cB.XcBIOl6gDaZR1fz.2YQ--" align="left" height="130" width="110" alt="photo" title="Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Pelosi predicted Thursday that the Congress will approve a sweeping bill to overhaul US health care this year.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29217 politico/20091106/29217 Politico politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:04:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29217"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.09d3c8c63a4e4496ae6e2c898ec6cae2.us_elections_deeds_vajm204.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=g85ZlwMbVzEoaiFkfMjpgw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds reacts to his loss in the Virginia governor's race against Republican Bob McDonnell, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at his election results event in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0" /></a>Politico - Faced with the choice of running as an unapologetic Democrat in a state trending toward his party or keeping his distance from Washington in the fashion of a generation of Southern Democrats, Creigh Deeds tried to do both.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29217"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.09d3c8c63a4e4496ae6e2c898ec6cae2.us_elections_deeds_vajm204.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=g85ZlwMbVzEoaiFkfMjpgw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds reacts to his loss in the Virginia governor's race against Republican Bob McDonnell, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at his election results event in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091106/pl_politico/29212 politico/20091106/29212 Politico politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:42:00 GMT Politico - Lost amid the Republican euphoria surrounding Tuesday&rsquo;s elections is this inconvenient fact: The GOP just got its clock cleaned, again, in another high-stakes House special election. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29204 politico/20091105/29204 Politico politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:40:00 GMT Politico - President Barack Obama promised "answers to every single question" about Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood after an attack by at least one U.S. service member that left at least 13 soldiers dead and 31 wounded. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29183 politico/20091105/29183 Politico politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:14:00 GMT Politico - The Tea Party holds no seat in Congress, but at least 10,000 of the party&rsquo;s members descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to rally against a Democratic-written health care overhaul. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29167 politico/20091105/29167 Politico politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:56:00 GMT Politico - Election Day losses in Virginia and New Jersey have congressional Democrats focused like never before on jobs &mdash; their own. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29168 politico/20091105/29168 Politico politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:51:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29168"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.a5efc1e6778543529d503267b0814b82.us_elections_deeds_vajm207.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DTVrpHI2gzua0qBT9K2yJg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., speak to supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds, after Deeds' loss in the Virginia governor's race against Republican Bob McDonnell, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at the Democratic election results event in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0" /></a>Politico - Two big questions loom in the wake of the 2009 elections. The first is whether Barack Obama learned anything new about American voters. The second is whether American voters will soon learn something new about Obama.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29168"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.a5efc1e6778543529d503267b0814b82.us_elections_deeds_vajm207.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DTVrpHI2gzua0qBT9K2yJg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., speak to supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds, after Deeds' loss in the Virginia governor's race against Republican Bob McDonnell, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at the Democratic election results event in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29165 politico/20091105/29165 Politico politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:05:00 GMT Politico - In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) called on protesters to &ldquo;scare&rdquo; members of Congress into killing the proposed health care reform bill. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091105/pl_politico/29161 politico/20091105/29161 Politico politics Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:32:00 GMT Politico - Conservative grass-roots activists asserted Wednesday that third-party candidate Doug Hoffman&rsquo;s loss in a New York special election was no setback but, rather, signaled a victory for the burgeoning political movement. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29144 politico/20091104/29144 Politico politics Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:43:00 GMT Politico - EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J.&mdash;If it&rsquo;s the day after an election, losing political operatives, donors and elected officials are waking up across America, dusting off the cobwebs from a long night of drowning their sorrows and gazing into the bathroom mirror with a question that always begins: &ldquo;What if&hellip;?&rdquo; http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29145 politico/20091104/29145 Politico politics Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:23:00 GMT Politico - MADISON, Wis. &ndash; Faced with fresh Democratic setbacks on the one-year anniversary of his historical election, President Barack Obama tried to change the topic. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29111 politico/20091104/29111 Politico politics Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:52:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29111"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257567669921-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=hW12sb5bJzL2s9d.uHUHog--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="US President Barack Obama speaks about healthcare reform legislation during a daily press briefing in the White House. Obama, his top domestic priority in the balance, is to make a rare in-person plea for wary lawmakers to cast an historic vote for legislation to remake US health care(AFP/Saul Loeb)" border="0" /></a>Politico - In the year since he was elected president, Barack Obama has revealed himself as one of the boldest leaders to occupy the Oval Office in the modern era.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29111"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257567669921-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=hW12sb5bJzL2s9d.uHUHog--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="US President Barack Obama speaks about healthcare reform legislation during a daily press briefing in the White House. Obama, his top domestic priority in the balance, is to make a rare in-person plea for wary lawmakers to cast an historic vote for legislation to remake US health care(AFP/Saul Loeb)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29116 politico/20091104/29116 Politico politics Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:31:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29116"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091104/i/r3948634168.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=H2AvwH4Tf056IwcPSF2p.g--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine (C) (D-NJ) concedes defeat to GOP candidate Chris Christie at his election headquarters in East Brunswick, New Jersey, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES ELECTIONS POLITICS)" border="0" /></a>Politico - RICHMOND, Va. &mdash; Eager to drain the 2009 elections of drama and import, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs claimed Tuesday night that President Barack Obama was &ldquo;not watching returns.&rdquo;</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091104/pl_politico/29116"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091104/i/r3948634168.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=H2AvwH4Tf056IwcPSF2p.g--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine (C) (D-NJ) concedes defeat to GOP candidate Chris Christie at his election headquarters in East Brunswick, New Jersey, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine (UNITED STATES ELECTIONS POLITICS)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico)