Word: canadas
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Movies made in these settings are, relatively speaking, cheap to make (western Canada is a perfect stand-in for the western U.S.) require smallish casts and in the dreariness of their first shots signal seriousness of intent. I don't care if we're talking No Country for Old Men or the more recent, low-budget hopelessness of Snow Angels - the seasoned moviegoer settles in for a long trek in a pickup truck, stopping only for depressed meals in dubious diners, trailer park sleepovers and a touch of concluding violence...
...hoopla until the two main candidates have emerged. Costly state-by-state elections to determine presidential nominees can appear like charming overkill, as if the U.S. is trying too hard to show the world what democracy should really look like. But this time is different. From Paris to Karachi, Canada to Turkey, interest in this U.S. election season began months ago. Libraries of new books on American politics and political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy. Friends of mine (not all of them political junkies) from Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Britain have...
...glove treatment. The theme sank into the broad public consciousness when Saturday Night Live returned from the writers' strike to make a recurring theme of the fawning press. Perhaps eager to prove that they can be equally tough on Obama, journalists filled that week with stories about Obama's Canada problem and his ties to an indicted Chicago real estate developer, Tony Rezko...
...Then the polls stabilized, with Clinton holding a narrow advantage. The Obama campaign seemed caught off guard by allegations that a top adviser sent signals to Canada that Obama's tough talk on NAFTA was merely political posturing. By last weekend, the sting of eleven straight primary losses had faded, and Clinton volunteers say they felt renewed confidence. "Right after the Wisconsin primary there was an eroding of her poll numbers in Ohio," said Ted Strickland, Ohio's governor. "The closer we got to election day, the better I felt...
Whether it's a result of Clinton's unrelenting campaign schedule, or the recent allegations that Obama's campaign sent signals to Canada that his tough talk on NAFTA was more political posturing than an actual policy plan, Clinton supporters feel that she has stopped the sense of encroaching doom that seemed to envelop her campaign last week. There is even guarded hope that Ohio may finally prove to be Clinton's firewall in the delegate race, as her campaign aides boasted two months ago. ?I think she's turned it around by being more real and showing her true...