"The ball really is with them now," Geithner, one of the president's chief negotiators with Capitol Hill, said during appearances on five Sunday talk shows. He acknowledged that Republicans are "having a tough time trying to figure out what they can do, what they can get support from their members for." The White House "might need to give them a little more time to figure out where they go next."

Geithner presented congressional leaders Thursday with Obama's postelection blueprint for averting the combination of hundreds of billions in tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect beginning in January if Washington doesn't act to stop it.

But House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, dismissed the plan as "not serious," merely a Democratic wish list that couldn't pass his chamber.

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He phoned in to a series of urban-format radio stations on Tuesday, interrupting music and chat with a pitch for the importance of the midterm vote.

He told listeners to KPWR radio in Los Angeles that even though his name isn't on the ballot, his agenda is. He said "across the board" things have improved on his watch -- but the question being decided is, "Can we keep that up?"

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is giving several Election Day broadcast interviews in his last-minute effort to get out the Democratic vote.

Obama was being interviewed live Tuesday on radio stations in Los Angeles and Las Vegas -- Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Harry Reid of Nevada are in close re-election races -- and is taping radio interviews for broadcast in Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla.

Obama also taped a round of interviews on Monday for airing on Election Day in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Honolulu and Miami.

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