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AP Top Political News At 6:12 a.m. EDT
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Officials: Obama to back infrastructure spending
By JULIE PACE
2010-09-06T10:05:08Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and airports that would cost at least $50 billion, administration officials said....
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Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions
By CHARLES BABINGTON
2010-09-06T07:14:57Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head....
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Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains
By DAVID ESPO
2010-09-06T04:01:20Z
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It's the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate....
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Obama seeks to shore up support for Wis. Democrats
By SCOTT BAUER
2010-09-05T23:48:06Z
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Barack Obama hopes to improve the fortunes of suddenly imperiled Wisconsin Democrats as he celebrates Labor Day with the state's union workers on Monday....
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Sen. Byrd's family denounces campaign attack ad
By LAWRENCE MESSINA
2010-09-05T21:41:34Z
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The family of the late Robert C. Byrd blasted the GOP nominee for his U.S. Senate seat Sunday after he used an image from Byrd's memorial service in a TV ad attacking the Democratic nominee....
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US officials: Mideast talks to resume in Jerusalem
By MATHEW LEE
2010-09-05T18:12:34Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders plan talks with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Jerusalem this month. The setting is a symbolic move to show the seriousness of peace negotiations....
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Official: Obama backing research tax credits
By JULIE PACE
2010-09-05T16:23:06Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seeking ways to spur economic growth ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to increase and permanently extend research and development tax credits for businesses, a White House official said Sunday....
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Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes
By LIZ SIDOTI
2010-09-05T08:39:52Z
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot of people who have lost jobs - or know someone who has - now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections....
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AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins
By DAN JOLING
2010-09-04T23:21:06Z
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate....
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POLITICAL INSIDER: Christie, GOP back Castle
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
2010-09-04T20:07:04Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who rode voter anger to office in New Jersey last year, is endorsing Mike Castle's bid to win the GOP primary in Delaware and is joining a pack of party leaders trying to block a tea party-backed candidate's bid....
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