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SACRAMENTO -- With President Obama's numbers slipping amid the rancorous debate over health care policy, state Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring couldn't be more pleased as his party takes its first steps into the 2010 campaign. "It's going to be a good election cycle," said Nehring, who is presiding over the state GOP convention in Indian Wells this weekend. "We'll have the wind at our back." Nehring's enthusiasm rests in three "leading indicators" that suggest that Republicans may be emerging from their electoral slump: the president's approval ratings, generic ballot strength and party self-identification, which he says have all "moved...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says the economy is starting to show "glimmers of hope." Obama commented Friday after meeting with members of his economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT'-nur), economics adviser Larry Summers and Christina Romer, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Obama said he's starting to see things get better. But at the same time he cautioned that the economy remains under "severe stress."

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2007 – Just shy of his division’s one-year mark of being on the ground in Iraq, the deputy commander for Multinational Division Baghdad said he sees “measured” and “remarkable” success within the capital city. “We can see clear glimmers of hope, but a very clear recognition that the work yet to be done may be the hardest,” Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said during a conference call today from Baghdad. He said this work will go beyond the traditional role of security and the concentrations of U.S. troop’s efforts over the last year. “(The work will go)...