Word: defeated
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...move is particularly startling because President Kirchner actually leads the First Lady in the most recent polls, at a 55% approval rating, according to one survey, to her 45%. The same polls show that, in any case, either Kirchner would easily defeat the leading opposition candidate, the middle-of-the-road anti-corruption candidate Elisa Carrio of the ARI party, who has only a 12% rating. Kirchner's former economy minister Roberto Lavagna, who is seen by many as having masterminded Argentina's recovery from the economic chaos that preceded Kirchner, has only an 11% chance...
...traditional Peronist voters: "The electoral role of Cristina is very important because President Kirchner lacks support in the Peronist party structure; furthermore, he actually mistrusts the party structure." The timing appears to be keyed to Peronist setbacks in a number of recent provincial elections. The most resounding was a defeat in the federal capital of Buenos Aires, in which the conservative millionaire businessman and Boca football club president Mauricio Macri won an astounding 61% of the vote against the Peronist Education Minister Daniel Filmus...
Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful opponent in 1944, Thomas Dewey, ran again in 1948, when he famously did not defeat Harry Truman. And then the parade of New York presidential candidates stopped. A number of ambitious New York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest...
Thank you for this extraordinary story, which gave chilling insight into the minds of those who hate Americans and kill our soldiers. If we want to defeat our enemies, we must understand them. Your correspondent obviously puts himself in great danger when he meets people like Abdallah, and I appreciate it. I hope our politicians and generals are reading such stories and learning valuable lessons...
...over the water cooler. In fact, I am running a cold campaign: helping town committee chairmen navigate campaign finance regulations, planning local television ads, and researching all that Congressman Murphy does wrong. Non-election years are the time for contemplation and preparation, when Republicans see the consequences of their defeat and remember why they even run against Democrats in the first place...