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...Barack Obama's top pollster, Joel Benenson, talks fast. "Like a New Yorker, because I am," he says. The night before we spoke, he slept four hours, and after more than a year of watching the numbers slide around his big client's signature initiative, health care reform, one can forgive him for betraying a bit of frustration. "It's never enough to just say people are unhappy," he explains. "You've got to understand why they are unhappy...
...course, the color revolutions - orange in Ukraine or rose in Georgia - prove that Thailand is not the only country that mixes politics and pigments. But no other nation is quite as rigid about color schemes. In the U.S., Democrats may be associated with blue, but that didn't stop Barack Obama from wearing a red tie on Inauguration Day. (Outgoing President George W. Bush chose a blue tie for the occasion.) (Read "Amid Massive Protests, Thai PM Won't Step Down...
...capital's bidonvilles to its more affluent suburbs: lack of response, of leadership, of a plan. "If I look around, it's like we don't have a government," says Sineus Edner, 56, a Port-au-Prince security guard. "For me, I'd rather vote for [U.S. President Barack] Obama. We heard from him [after the quake] before we heard from our own President...
...Russian political circles, Barack Obama's election tended to evoke two different reactions. Many officials were curious to see what new deals he would offer, but others, in the tradition of the Cold War, dismissed him as just the latest mouthpiece of the old American élites. If any of them experienced Obamamania, they sure kept it to themselves. So it's little wonder that Obama's drive to put aside old grudges and start fresh with Moscow has come up against stubborn resistance from the Kremlin in recent months. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will likely face a tough...
...easy to herd Congress's collection of tense, defensive, anxious Democrats, distracted by tough re-election bids and the grim disapproval of an angry electorate. But as you watch the taut health care endgame, just remember that there is a reason we don't know much about how Barack Obama handles losing: it almost never happens...