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...Elections for Taiwan's 225-member legislature used to pivot on localized concerns, like whether a county had enough roads. But this Saturday's ballot is proving to be a referendum on the big issues: Taiwan's relationship with China, and Chen's presidency. His narrow re-election in March-just one day after an apparent assassination attempt-left him without a clear mandate and spawned weeks of street protests by the KMT-led opposition. That stretched into acrimonious months of ballot recounts and lawsuits challenging both the vote tally and the circumstances of the shooting incident. Though the courts...
...world affairs. Blair has denounced that impulse as "the most dangerous game of international politics I know." In a major foreign policy speech last week, he stressed keeping the Atlantic alliance vibrant, using Britain as a go-between if necessary: "Call it a bridge, a two-lane motorway, a pivot or a damn high wire, our job is to keep our sights firmly on both sides of the Atlantic." But Chirac said bluntly that Blair had received little in return for his loyalty to Bush. Who ends up winning the argument is mostly up to Bush - who is banking...
Fourth thing I know for sure: National security will dominate America’s agenda for years to come. There is no way to cynically “match” the Republicans on defense and then pivot to more hospitable domestic issues. Bruce Reed of the Democratic Leadership Council wrote about a “trust gap”—a legacy of Vietnam and the Iranian hostage crisis—that pushes fearful voters into the arms of the tougher “daddy party” Republicans. “Me too?...
When it came to his closing argument, John Kerry wasn't about to trust anyone's instincts but his own. Ten days before the election, Lockhart and pollster Stan Greenberg started circulating a battle plan among Kerry's top advisers that called for an abrupt pivot in tone and message for the final stretch. He should talk more about domestic issues, the memo said, adopt a "positive and hopeful tone" and offer optimism instead of fear. "We want to elevate the choice by elevating the moment and the consequences--of four more years of Bush, with all the partiality...
Time was running out. If Kerry was to make that pivot, he would have to do it before the first debate, or the headline coming out of that contest would inevitably be KERRY TAKES YET ANOTHER POSITION ON IRAQ. But as late as 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 20, just hours before Kerry was to give the speech at New York University in which he would lay it all out, aides were still arguing all sides of the question around the dining table of his suite at the Sheraton in New York City. Some maintained he had said...