Thursday, December 1, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

For Herman Cain, the campaign all but over (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:29 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain leaves the Manchester Union Leader newspaper after meeting with the editorial board, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - Herman Cain is still campaigning for president. But by most measures, his White House bid is all but over.

Romney faces two big rivals: Gingrich and Obama (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:22 PM PST

FILE - In this June 13, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney participate in a presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Suddenly Mitt Romney is fighting a two-front political war. The Republican presidential contender has skated along for much of the year as GOP challengers surged and faded, but now he faces an unexpected, more serious threat from Newt Gingrich — just as Barack Obama's team is sharpening its criticism of Romney, the president's likeliest foe next fall. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)AP - Suddenly Mitt Romney is fighting a two-front political war. The Republican presidential contender has skated along for much of the year as GOP challengers surged and faded. But now he faces an unexpected, more serious threat from Newt Gingrich — just as Barack Obama's team is sharpening its criticism of Romney, whom the president's aides view as his likeliest foe next fall.

Gingrich in Iowa urges more responsible citizenry (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:32 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a meeting with employees at Nationwide Insurance, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - The scope of the nation's problems requires citizens to take more responsibility for the country's direction, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said Thursday, adding the alternative would be the nation's demise.

Bachmann says Gingrich has 'memory challenge' (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST

AP - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is pushing back after rival Newt Gingrich called her "factually challenged."

Romney visits former President George H.W. Bush (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:37 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, visits with former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara at their Houston home, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney met with former President George H.W. Bush Thursday, but Romney aides say no endorsement is coming.

House passes bill to end public election funding (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:00 PM PST

AP - The House on Thursday passed a bill to end the public financing of presidential campaigns. It would dismantle a system set up after the Watergate scandal of the 1970s that has been overshadowed in recent years by the huge sums of private money pouring into elections.

Democrats to pursue protections for voting rights (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:57 PM PST

AP - Democrats said Thursday they are planning a major effort to protect voting rights in the 2012 election after several states passed voter identification laws and restrictions on early voting and same day registration.

Panel deadlocks on coordination among candidates (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:14 PM PST

AP - How much can an outside group, bankrolled by millionaires, help a candidate win an election?

Rahm: I'll testify on Solyndra (Politico)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:17 PM PST

Politico - He says he's open to appearing before a panel.

Priest and nun tag-team Rahm (Politico)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:45 PM PST

Politico - He gets some good-natured ribbing over his decision to cut off free water for a Chicago non-profit.

Cain's lawyer demands records from accuser (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:15 AM PST

AP - An attorney for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has demanded cell phone records from an Atlanta businesswoman accusing Cain of an extramarital affair.

Romney to air Iowa ad, signaling play for caucuses (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:34 AM PST

AP - Shifting his Iowa campaign into a more aggressive final phase, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is launching his first TV ads in the state with a spot in which he declares, "I've learned something about how it is that economies grow."

US finds reassurance in Egypt's peaceful voting (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST

An Egyptian woman votes as her child stands behind her at a polling station near the town of Ibshawai, near Fayoum, 62 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Polls opened Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - The Obama administration offered tempered praise this week as millions of Egyptians cast ballots in an election likely to be the country's freest and fairest ever — a vote the U.S. insisted go forward despite objections by pro-democracy street protesters.

South Ossetian opposition leader rejects new vote (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:28 AM PST

Alla Dzhioyeva, center, who claimed victory in South Ossetia's presidential election, speaks outside the main government building in Tskhinvali, the regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. The region's top court annulled Dzhioyeva's victory citing violations and her supporters challenge the verdict. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - South Ossetia does not need a new presidential election, the candidate whose apparent victory over a Kremlin-backed rival was annulled in the breakaway Georgian province said Thursday.

Occupy Wall Street Turns on Barack Obama (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:56 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Even though President Barack Obama has tried to embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement, the favor has not been returned. This was in evidence last night when the president was at a fund raiser in New York, according to the New York Times.

Secret Santa in the Senate: The wisecracks (The Week)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:19 AM PST

The Week - A bipartisan gift exchange might not bring Republicans and Democrats any closer together, but it's good for a few laughs

White House withholding Solyndra records, House energy committee says (Daily Caller)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:35 PM PST

Daily Caller - Despite a subpoena, the White House is still withholding records related to the failed $535 million federal loan to Solyndra, Republican investigators from the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Thursday.

Democrat leaders merge religion and party (Daily Caller)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:18 PM PST

Daily Caller - Top Democratic legislators are promising to harness religion to help them win 2012 voters, and are also declaring that the Democratic Party’s actions are the expression of their religious obligations.
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