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...With his youthful charm, Oxford University pedigree and policy geek's exuberance for subjects as esoteric as tapioca-derived alternative fuel and campaign-finance reform, Abhisit resembles a certain heavyweight from the U.S. Democratic Party. But there's one big difference: unlike Bill Clinton, Abhisit didn't grow up in trailer-park country. Although the patrician Thai Democrat can count on support from the urban middle class, as well as residents of Thailand's largely Muslim south, Abhisit will have a tougher time convincing the rural masses that he feels their pain. Thailand's agrarian northeast, in particular...
...There's just not that many of you left," Obama, the Illinois Democrat, said drawing a laugh out of the crowd. "You might as well call yourself an Independent...
...numbers certainly bear that out. Until 2000 the state was majority registered Republican, but it's now 44% undeclared, 30% Republican and 26% Democrat. In the 2006 elections, the GOP lost 91 state legislature seats, six of their 16 state senate seats and both their congressional seats; no wonder Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party called it, a "tsunami." For the first time in more than a century the Democrats now control all levels of New Hampshire government: both chambers of the legislature and the governor's house. While Cullen stresses that tsunamis recede - as recently...
...made sense, given the city's panoply of targets. But he was not a student of Islamic extremism, as he claims on the campaign trail, Hauer says. (Giuliani and Hauer had a falling-out during the election to replace Giuliani after 9/11, both sides confirm, after Hauer endorsed a Democrat, arguing in part that the city would be safer under his choice.) "We never talked about Islamic terrorism," Hauer says. "We talked about chemical terrorism, biological terrorism. We did talk about car bombs every now and then. [But] I don't think there was much interest on his part...
...coalition's most likely candidate is Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a French-trained economist and political chameleon. Having been, at various points in his career, a communist, a Ba'athist and a secular liberal democrat, he has switched directions so many times it's hard to know which way he's going. These days, Abdul-Mahdi represents the Shi'ite-fundamentalist Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), which, like Maliki's Dawa Party, is beholden to Tehran. Twice in the past two years, Abdul-Mahdi has told journalists he was on the verge of quitting the SIIC to form his own party...