Word: campaigners
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...Obama Effect The media make much ado about the so-called Bradley effect [Nov. 3]. And it doesn't take a genius to see that John McCain and Sarah Palin have counted on this racial motivation to help them overcome the consequences of their poorly run campaign. But we must now factor in an even more potent quotient: the Obama effect - that quality whereby the more you get to know a politician, the more you like and trust him or her. Across the board, Obama's ratings have steadily increased with key groups that had been cool toward him before...
...Order The economic problems quickly became a political challenge for President Lee. A former CEO of Hyundai's construction company, Lee triumphed in the country's 2007 election on a platform of reform aimed at returning South Korea to rapid growth. Not only did the economic crisis make his campaign promises sound hollow, the President and his policy team came under heavy criticism for reacting too slowly to stem the turmoil. "The problem has become deeper than necessary," says Charles Chang, managing partner of Seoul-based boutique investment-banking firm Accolade. "It is the failure of the government." Chang believes...
...Campaign '08: Memories... My own "moment to remember" of the 2008 campaign is illustrated by one of your voices, Laura Ingraham: the Republicans' utter lack of vision [Nov. 10]. From McCain down to state assembly candidates, the overwhelming majority of ads never carried the remotest hint of what the Republicans would do if elected. Instead, they produced laundry lists of reasons why not to vote for the opposition. Republican mouthpieces complain that their candidates don't get positive coverage in the "mainstream" media. If you have no message, you probably won't get much coverage. Dennis Sheehan, Waupaca, Wisconsin...
...campaigned from the center, but many of those now trying to get his ear would like the party, now resplendent in the robes of power, to adopt what Slater calls "its natural position in terms of philosophy." Many self-made men never lose their empathy for the underprivileged; others figure that if they could haul themselves out of poverty, others should be able to do it too. While he pledged on election night that his government would serve the interests of all New Zealanders, Key also noted that the people had voted for a "more prosperous, more ambitious" country...
...Table Personal items; Clinton had a toy model of his campaign...