http://www.myheadlines.org/section142-0.html Breaking news and leading views on the US presidential elections 2008. en http://www.myheadlines.org/images/myh.gif http://www.myheadlines.org/section142-0.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - In defiance of the US Senate leadership, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich decided to name a replacement to Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat on Tuesday.In naming Roland Burris, a longtime African-American politician in Illinois who has served as the state’s comptroller and attorney general in the past, Governor Blagojevich acted within his legal rights, as [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085493.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - State GOP leaders will gather in Washington next week to begin the process of charting a new strategy for the Republican Party.The issue of race will be central to the discussion, even if it’s not a specific item on the agenda.That’s because, fairly or not, Republicans are being identified as the party of Southern white [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085492.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - With about a third of the US population, the American South has established itself as an economic and political juggernaut.But it’s not gone without notice here that President-elect Obama is the first president in a generation to look beyond Dixie to build his White House brain trust.Is the dearth of dyed-in-the-cotton Southerners from the Obama [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085491.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - America remains a “yes, we can” kind of nation, but the aspirations of the vast middle class are under strain – enough to be the subject of a presidential task force.President-elect Obama made it official earlier this week. Come January, a key job of Vice President Joseph Biden will be to come up with ways [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085490.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - As the saga of Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his alleged “political corruption crime spree” has played out over the past two weeks, it’s been an unwelcome distraction for another politician from Illinois: President-elect Obama.The Obama team hoped to put to rest some of the speculation with its own findings, issued Tuesday, claiming that transition team [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085489.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - With the US economy floundering, a massive new federal spending program to avert a deeper fall is gaining momentum, but critics are beginning to mount a resistance.They concede it will be tough slogging, in part because the “let the markets work” strategy has failed so conspicuously and in part because people don’t want to hear [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085488.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - President-elect Obama’s economic recovery plan is growing into a stimulus bill so large that it is likely to go where no such government efforts have ever gone before.Current estimates for the stimulus legislation’s cost range from $675 billion to $850 billion. If it clears Congress, it would rank as one of the most expensive single [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085487.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - Ho ho ho.  We’re taking a short break from the blog in order to dance with some sugar plums and enjoy a long winter’s nap.The Vote will return shortly after we get yuletide cheered out.Enjoy the holidays. ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085486.html 08 01 2009 CSM | Politics - The worst job market in a generation sets up a difficult test for Barack Obama: how closely to align himself with organized labor at a time when reviving economic growth is the top national priority.It’s a question that the incoming president will have to address directly in his first few weeks in office, as debate [...] ]]> http://www.myheadlines.org/headline2085485.html 08 01 2009 Yahoo! | US elections - AP - Senate Democrats beat a hasty retreat Wednesday from their rejection of Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's successor, yielding to pressure from Obama himself and from senators irked that the standoff was draining attention and putting them in a bad light. Burris said with a smile he expected to join them "very shortly."
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