Reporter's Notebook: Daily Press Briefing

The latest headlines from today's briefing with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:

- On today's Mass. elections and the President's role in campaigning/Gibbs refuses to speculate about outcome:  "Obviously the President went on Sunday [to MA], lent his support to Martha Coakley ... someone who has fought for middle class, working class folks ... we're going to have plenty of time to get into the back and forth of all this. I'd prefer to do that when we know what the result is,"  says Gibbs.   President Obama will call whoever the winner is, but Gibbs says not to anticipate any kind of statement.

- Is the fact that the Mass. race is close, a reflection on the President? "I think there is  a tremendous amount of upset and anger in this country about where we are economically. That's not a surprise to us in this administration. In many ways we're here because of that upset and anger."

- Gibbs is not aware of reports that U.S. planes flying over Haiti are broadcasting a message to Haitians not to come to the U.S.   "We have not seen any evidence of a mass exodus."

- Gibbs says the President's top priority for his second year in office is to "continue to work hard to get this economy back on track and creating jobs again."

- Nothing special planned on Wednesday - marking 1 year since the President has been in office.  "There'll be no surprise party for the end of the first year," notes Gibbs.

- Asked what the President has learned in his first year in office?  Gibbs:  "That change is never easy, that change takes time, that change needs to go through Congress."