Obama news conference Wednesday

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will address the election results with a news conference Wednesday afternoon at the White House, where he is expected to call for both parties to put aside the vitriol of the past several months and work together to restore the nation's economy.

The president spent Election Day in the White House, closing out the campaign season with a last-minute flurry of radio interviews on stations in selected urban markets, including Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Jacksonville. On a Las Vegas station, he made a direct appeal to Latinos.

He is scheduled to leave Washington on Friday for a nine-day trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan, and aides would like to get the election behind him so that he would not be dogged by domestic concerns while overseas.

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