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...force on the issue last year. Families of the victims have become national celebrities, and make regular media appearances not only to campaign for their cause but also to speak out on politics and nuclear disarmament. Hatsuhisa Takashima, special assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, says a recent poll shows that "88% of Japanese are interested in the abduction issue and want it resolved...
President Pervez Musharraf lifted Pakistan's state of emergency Saturday, but the move was less momentous than it sounded: leading members of the judiciary remain under house arrest, restrictions on reporters are still in place, and the country is headed for an early January poll that many opposition activists and political observers fear will be rigged. Musharraf declared emergency rule six weeks ago, just as the Supreme Court was about to decide whether his election to another term as President was legal. The President, who came to power in a bloodless military coup in 1999 and finally stood down...
...next three weeks will be filled with electioneering and mudslinging. The poll's legitimacy will depend largely on whether the opposition parties, who pondered boycotting the election but now seem committed to taking part, see it as mostly fair or renounce it and call protest rallies. With a compromised Supreme Court and restricted media, though, many Pakistanis already believe that the poll will be little more than another fig leaf to disguise a deeply unpopular dictatorship...
...former Arkansas governor and an ordained Southern Baptist minister, is their new favorite, Romney just needs to retain a portion of them, along with the majority of non-Evangelical voters, to win Iowa. Nearly two-thirds, or 62%, of Iowa Evangelicals support Huckabee, according to a Dec. 10 Rasmussen poll of 789 likely G.O.P. caucus-goers. That's up from 48% of Evangelicals in the same poll two weeks ago. Overall Huckabee leads Romney 39% to 23%. "Romney may very well lose the Evangelical vote, but he could still win because he's going to get more of a conservative...
...That point is debatable. Romney's poll numbers have decreased from a high of 32% in September to 21% these days, where they seem to have hit a floor, according to poll averages done by Real Clear Politics...