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...climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade. It's the area where he is moving out of the centrist comfort zone with risky populism. If elected, Rudd is proposing to achieve a 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Risky populism is becoming the backbeat to Doing a Kevin. Rudd is chasing a younger crowd through appearances on puerile FM radio shows. One of the medium's luminaries, Jackie...
...smart strategy, but it faces tough challenges, as both men are finding it harder to rally even centrist support than it was a year ago. Thanks to the 2008 elections, two key Republican backers of last year's effort at immigration reform, John McCain and Sam Brownback, have disappeared down the campaign trail. McCain had previously united with Kennedy to form a central Senate bloc for a compromise, while Brownback played a key role representing the compassionate right. Mel Martinez, a key Hispanic Republican voice in the debate, has also gone quiet since taking over the Republican National Committee...
...some point between now and the end of May, when Senate majority leader Harry Reid has said the Senate will vote on immigration reform, the theater will end and real negotiating will begin. But with thin centrist backing, skeptical party extremes, and very little time to negotiate, it will take more than compelling theater to get the deal done...
What's evident is that the exiles are holding up a mirror to French society itself. Their description of a dysfunctional France has become a central theme in the election campaigns of all three key candidates for the French presidency. Nicolas Sarkozy on the right, centrist François Bayrou and Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party's candidate, are all taking aim at a France they describe as "blocked" and "immobile." And they are making promises galore to resolve many of the issues that have sent these young French abroad in the first place. Royal wants...
...Centrist François Bayrou has emerged as if from nowhere to become a real contender in the French presidential elections, upending the classic right-left battle between frontrunners Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal. No one is quite sure what he'll do if he wins, but that hasn't dimmed his appeal, at least not yet. He spoke to TIME's James Graff during a campaign stint in Normandy...