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4A – Daily News – Thursday, November 11, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Dems threaten rebuke of Pelosi WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh sign of tur- moil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won’t sup- port House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politi- cally symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January. ‘‘The reality is that she is politically toxic,’’ said Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, one of several Democrats who are try- ing to pressure Pelosi to step aside as her party’s leader in the wake of his- toric election losses to Republicans last week. Pelosi startled many Democrats with a quick postelection announce- ment that she would run for minority leader. She has yet to draw an oppo- nent for the post. Party elections are scheduled for next week, although a postponement is possi- ble. In the interim, Pelosi’s critics have become more vocal in their efforts to retire her from the party leader- ship. There’s ‘‘starting to be a sense that this may not be as much of a done deal as people might have thought,’’ Rep. Jason Altmire said of Pelosi’s quest to remain the top Democrat. ‘‘If enough people come out and voice a lit- tle discomfort with the idea of her continuing on, maybe she would reconsider,’’ said the Pennsylvanian, one of a handful of Democrats who said he won’t cast a ceremonial vote for her. Deficit panel leaders’ plan cuts Medicare, Social Security WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of Presi- dent Barack Obama’s bipartisan deficit commis- sion launched a daring assault on mushrooming federal deficits on Wednesday, proposing reducing annual cost-of- living increases for Social Security, gradually rais- ing the retirement age to 69 and taking aim at pop- ular tax breaks such as the mortgage interest deduc- tion. As part of a proposal to wrestle $1-trillion-plus deficits under control, their plan would also curb the growth of Medicare. It came a week after voters put Republicans back in charge of the House and told Washington that the government is too big. However, the plan by Chairman Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, the co- chairman, doesn’t look like it can win the support from 14 commission members that is needed to force a debate in Con- gress. Bowles is a Demo- crat and was former Pres- ident Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff. Simpson is a Wyoming Republican. The two were among the first to acknowledge their plan’s unpopularity — and to suggest it would be a nonstarter in Con- gress. ‘‘We’ll both be in a witness protection pro- gram when this is all over, so look us up,’’ Simpson quipped to reporters. Bowles said: ‘‘We’re not asking anybody to vote for this plan. This is a starting point.’’ Obama: US needs help to bring global Palin is best- known, most divisive, of GOP’s 2012 contenders WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Palin is the most polarizing of the potential 2012 Republican presi- dential candidates, while impressions of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Rom- ney lean more positive, according to an Associat- ed Press-GfK poll. As for the rest — Pawlenty, Bar- bour, Thune, Daniels — most Americans say, ‘‘Who?’’ The election, of course, is far away, and polls this early largely reflect name recognition and a snapshot of current popularity. A year before the last presidential elec- tion, the top names in public opinion polls were Rudy Giuliani for the Republicans and Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democrats. Neither won their party’s nomination. But jockeying among the dozen-plus Republi- cans eyeing a chance to challenge President Barack Obama is under way. 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Tallying write-in ballots in Alaska JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Misspellings and poor penmanship took center stage Wednesday in Alas- ka’s contentious U.S. Senate race as teams of election workers began tallying more than 92,500 write-in ballots, with the two candidates’ lawyers and observers intently watching the tedious process unfold. Observers for GOP nominee Joe Miller — whose vote total trailed the number of write-in ballots cast in the Nov. 2 election by 11,333 as of Wednesday — were quick to challenge any ballot on which Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s scribbled-in name was misspelled or letters were difficult to decipher. Among the questions from Miller’s team: Is that an ‘‘a’’ or an ‘‘o’’? Murkowski spokesman John Tracy suggested some of the challenges were frivolous. ‘‘This isn’t supposed to be a penmanship test,’’ he said. 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