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What's in Store for '07 In your discussion on the upcoming French presidential elections in the What's Next package [March 19], you neglected to mention the role of François Bayrou, the popular leader of the Union for French Democracy and former Education Minister. He has been rising in the polls more rapidly than Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal and is positioned to determine who will be France's next President. He will be able to sway votes to either Sarkozy or Royal-or even become Jacques Chirac's successor. Michael Bayer...
What all the measures have in common is that they will ultimately have to find their way to hostile territory--Bush's desk. Still, Bush 2007 is not Bush 2004, and the embattled President may decide that vetoing a piece of broadly popular legislation is not a fight worth picking now, especially since corporations see value in it. Kristin Hellmer, a spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will not rule out the President's signing onto cap-and-trade or any other green bill. "It's a bit premature to have that conversation," she says...
Political popularity is usually relative. Even the most unloved politicians have a hard core of supporters who will back them no matter what. But in Israel these days, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is testing the limits of the possible: in a recent poll by a local television station, he had a favorable rating of 3%. Given the poll's margin of error, it was possible Olmert had no support beyond his extended family. The Prime Minister responded to this dismaying turn of events--caused by Israel's less than triumphant war against Hizballah last summer, plus a gaudy array...
...Juiced for WebTV The coming Joost revolution, led by Skype veterans Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, may move TV to the Internet, but that is no reason to call Microsoft's popular WebTV service, which does the opposite, a dud [March 12]. Of Joost, Jeremy Caplan said, "Simplicity is the magic," but nothing is simpler than WebTV. Sure, Microsoft dropped the ball by discontinuing WebTV. But we old-timers - I am almost 83 - love it. Lloyd Saletan, NEW YORK CITY...
...Front Runners Lacking Luster I encourage Joe Klein [March 5] to talk to some Republican voters outside the Beltway. John McCain was always more popular among the news media and moderate Democrats than among Republican voters, especially Republican primary voters. His name recognition is high, but his acceptability is low. McCain didn't lose his edge. He never had one. Dave Robertson, louisville, COLORADO...