Word: favorability
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...early to fully gauge what impact John Edwards' departure will have on the Democratic race. His voters may well favor Clinton over Obama. But his superdelegates are already joining the Obama movement. Even before the former North Carolina Senator dropped out of the race on Jan. 30, at least two of his congressional backers had shifted their endorsements to Obama, and more are expected to follow...
...KOFI ANNAN The frustrated former U.N. head has ditched the idea of new elections in favor of mediation...
...members hang on a prudent solution in Kosovo. However slim, the chance of such a solution is worth striving for. The only way to have no losers in Kosovo is through the supranational philosophy embodied by the EU. Sadly, the EU has already taken sides in favor of Kosovo’s imminent independence, joining Serbia and Kosovo in the failed mindset of the past. But only a neutral EU can win the trust and commitment of both Serbia and Kosovo. This step must be reversed in order to attain peace without victory. The Serbia-Kosovo standoff will certainly...
...surprised to see Mitt Romney or Barack Obama don a yarmulke in Brooklyn or Hillary Clinton or John McCain down a tamale in Los Angeles. But the most direct way that politicians try to curry favor with their ethnic audience is to try to speak like them. Nothing forges as much of a connection - or presents as great a risk - as trying to address an audience in their native tongue...
...well, bullpucky. Obama spoke out against the war before it began. When he reached the Senate, Obama had to deal with the awful reality on the ground: we had troops there; there was chaos. He proceeded to vote exactly like other Senators who had opposed the war-in favor of funding the troops, hoping for progress. As Iraq metastasized into a civil war, he began to vote for a responsible withdrawal. That Bill Clinton would turn this into an attack against Obama was almost as absurd as Clinton's turning Obama's statement that Ronald Reagan had changed the trajectory...