Word: exits
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...Still, Musharraf's exit is likely to provide the coalition a significant if brief popularity bump. The Karachi Stock Exchange rose 4%, and the rupee rose marginally against the dollar. But with inflation at 25%, alarming levels of capital flight, soaring costs of food and fuel, and rising unemployment, the economic outlook remains bleak. And as Pakistan-based Taliban become more confident, Islamist militancy is a growing concern...
...opponents have steadily closed in, some of his key allies have abandoned his side. The powerful army he led for nine years shows no sign of intervening. And even the once guaranteed voice of support from Washington appears to have fallen silent, while the chorus calling for his exit continues to grow louder...
...London - who have long valued Musharraf as a key ally in the "war on terror" - would like to see the already enfeebled President suffer the indignity of impeachment proceedings. The same holds true for the army. "Negotiations are going on between the coalition and the army for a safe exit to be given to Musharraf," said former general Talat Masood. "I think the Americans and the army are demanding he be given safe passage. For the army, impeachment would mean a huge distraction from the war on terror and may even be seen as the army being impeached...
...Hubbard believes turnout will be up in November, but he thinks Coloradans will tell exit pollers it wasn't the downballot measures that brought them polls. "It's a little too soon to tell," says Hubbard, but "I think right now the thing that's going to be driving voter turnout more than anything else is the presidential election." Even more so than the prospect of a sex strike...
...Clinton in the primary. And Obama is holding his own with males, as he and McCain split them 43% each. McCain is leading Obama by seven points, 47%-40% among white voters, but that is well short of George W. Bush's 58%-41% edge over John Kerry in exit polls from the 2004 election. Obama, meanwhile, is getting the votes of 85% of blacks to McCain...