pThe choice of a successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state has turned into an unexpectedly nasty political fight that could cost the White House valuable goodwill with Republicans./ppa data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-meeting-with-susan-rice-republican-senators-say-they-arent-reassured/2012/11/27/64af3ce6-38b6-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_story.html"Republican opposition/a to presumptive front-runner Susan E. Rice did not fade after the election, as White House officials and her supporters had predicted. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, did not win any public GOP support after meeting with two Republican senators Wednesday, her second day of unusual face-to-face sessions intended to blunt critiques of her role in explaining the fatal Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Libya./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fight-over-susan-rice-holds-political-risks-for-white-house/2012/11/28/abf649be-396f-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2612c06f/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151538746954/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2612c06f/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151538746954/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2612c06f/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151538746954/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2612c06f/a2t.img" border="0"/