Word: populars
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...both arrived with long résumés of appointed posts but virtually no electoral experience. This category might also include Jimmy Carter, who despite several years in the Georgia legislature and governor's office maintained an essentially bureaucratic outlook toward White House affairs. All three proved wanting as popular leaders, unable to rally mass support for their programs. All three were limited to a single term...
...helped pull together various emerging countercultural strains--including alternative birthing centers and the exploration of altered states of consciousness--into what soon after became Known as the New Age movement. In her book, she remarked, "We are entering a millennium of love and light--in the words of the popular song 'The Age of Aquarius,' the time of 'the mind's true liberation."' Before the book's release, Ferguson published a monthly newsletter titled Brain/Mind Bulletin, reporting on new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience...
...fact, she cost the GOP ticket more than she helped it. In that poll, 59% said they didn't think she was qualified to be Vice President - a view shared by many mandarins of the GOP. But the enthusiasm she briefly generated made gaming Palin's next move a popular sport. Will she join the big-money speaker's circuit? Become, as Tina Fey joked, the "white Oprah"? Run for Senate? Run for President in 2012 as the new face of a reinvented Republican Party...
...Only one in five voters had a good opinion of George W. Bush, and Congress was even less popular. Again, probably safe to say this one is a keeper...
...Kirchner is referred to ironically as "the former President in office" by Joaquin Morales Sola, the leading columnist in the conservative daily La Nacion, who has stated that Cristina Fernández "is the democratic President with the quickest loss ever in popular support...