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...They should either kill me or organize a second round of elections.' LEVAN GACHECHILADZE, Georgian opposition leader, after his resounding defeat by pro-Western incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili in the country's Jan. 5 Presidential elections. Gachechiladze claimed the voting was rigged...
...elusive voters that after his second-straight silver medal - to use Romney's favorite Olympian metaphor - he plans to roll onto his native Michigan with his new-old campaign themes in place. On the surface, at least, the campaign will stick to the messages they turned to after their defeat in Iowa: competence and change, no longer his conservative credentials. "The governor's experience as a solution-oriented guy, a turnaround CEO, is a particularly good fit in Michigan," says his national spokesman, Kevin Madden. "We can win there with a focus on the economy and showing the governor...
...Obama's narrow defeat at the hands of the Senator he just a few days earlier had clobbered in Iowa deprived the challenger of the clear and undisputed momentum he had enjoyed after Iowa. The outcome instead sends the Democratic race into several weeks of tough and expensive, hedgerow-to-hedgerow combat. About the only thing that is certain now is that the race will remain unclear for some time to come...
Clinton's speech was merely the fanfare for what aides say will be a dramatic transformation of her campaign. It starts with the message. One of the things Clinton learned from her defeat in Iowa, those around her say, is that her emphasis on experience and readiness was missing its mark. Her speech Tuesday night was less about her and more about the voters: the ones who have lost their mortgages, who can't afford health care and can't get student loans. "Too many have been invisible for too long," she said. "Well, you are not invisible...
...feel more comfortable; Doug will make him feel more comfortable," said one campaign adviser. "And they've both been through this before." For now at least, chief strategist Mark Penn - whom many had blamed for failing to recognize the larger forces that had been at work in her Iowa defeat - will remain with the campaign...