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...likely come to know what Stevenson was driving at. Under the headline calamity brown, a Nov. 26 cover story in the political journal New Statesman, previously regarded in Westminster as Brown's cheerleader, marked the Prime Minister's astonishing plunge from grace. Pollsters have tracked that vertiginous descent. In opinion polls, Labour led the opposition Conservatives by some eight percentage points in September; two recent surveys show David Cameron's revitalized party ahead by 11 points, the most substantial lead it has enjoyed over Labour since Margaret Thatcher was in power. Brown's government has been buffeted by a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown's Blues | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...report would sink Lee's presidential ambitions. But with two weeks to go before the Dec. 19 election, Lee, 66, now appears to be the only candidate capable of securing a majority. The former Hyundai Engineering and Construction CEO has an approval rating of about 40% in public opinion polls, compared with 18% for Lee Hoi Chang and 15% for Chung. President Roh Moo Hyun, whose five-year term is ending, cannot run for a second term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea's Cloudy Campaign | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...free choice. When threats, indoctrination and dishonesty are allowed to flourish, even a fake democracy loses the ability to maintain its disguise. The events of the past week would be absurd but, tellingly, they did not shock many. President Putin, hiding in the Kremlin and protected by favorable public opinion, has had a crucial opponent arrested for taking part in a demonstration. The timing could not be better: With well-known chess grandmaster turned democracy advocate Gary Kasparov behind bars in the run up to the election, Putin had one less annoying figure to worry about. Kasparov, of course, knows...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Sham Election in Russia | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...have any opinion about the UC presidential elections, in particular or in general,” Kidd wrote...

Author: By Aditi Banga and Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: A Delicate Dance | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...decide something for it to be a done deal," says Dominique Reynié, a political analyst and professor at the Foundation of Political Science in Paris. "Now people are seeing that all that grandstanding hasn't produced much in the way of concrete results, and they're changing their opinion on Sarkozy's effectiveness," he continues. "That's bound to accelerate given public anxiety over the economy - a very heavy, complex, slow-moving variable that doesn't respond to political sleights of hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Wants to Change Work Rules | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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