Word: populistic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...violence, and then create the institutions of justice that can support a new election. The electoral commission’s failure to produce credible results in December is evidence of Kenya’s long struggle with corruption. The Kenyan elections pitted incumbent Mwai Kibaki, against the populist opposition leader, Raila Odinga. Although Odinga’s party won a majority of the parliamentary seats, and it looked as though he would win the presidency, Kibaki made a last minute come back to eek out victory with 46 percent of the vote to Odinga’s 44. Election observers...
...Huckabee's South Carolina chairman, the state's former Governor, David Beasley, stood behind Huckabee as he celebrated his third-place finish in New Hampshire. In an interview afterward, Beasley argued that Huckabee could be an unstoppable force, marrying his populist momentum from Iowa with an Establishment tie to the state as a fellow Southern Governor. "McCain will get a small bump," Beasley said of the Arizona Senator's New Hampshire win. But, he predicted, it would not be enough. In 2000 Beasley backed another Southern Governor, George W. Bush, in a triumph over McCain. Eight years later, Beasley foresees...
...Edwards pushed as hard as he could ahead of the New Hampshire primary, holding more than 20 events in four days to make his populist pitch that he is the only genuine "change" candidate in the race. But after a surprise second-place showing in the Iowa caucuses, the former North Carolina Senator failed to parlay that momentum into a stronger-than-expected showing in the New Hampshire primary. Edwards came in third place, garnering around 17% of the vote behind Hillary Clinton's 39% and Barack Obama's 37%. "Up until now one half of 1% of the country...
...extent, Edwards is running on a Jerry Brown model to win the nomination. The former California governor gave Hillary's husband, Bill Clinton, a scare in 1992 before a gaffe forced Brown to bow out. Like Edwards, Brown was largely ignored by the media until his grassroots campaign and populist message caught on in late March. Edwards is a much stronger and more credible candidate than Brown, who ran as a quirky outsider, but there are a lot of similarities in their messages: Brown ran on a platform of campaign finance reform, pledging to end the "Stop-and Shop...
...foreign policy, humane and fair immigration laws, and respect for the sanctity of life—whether it be life threatened by political unrest in Kenya or by inhumane practices of partial-birth abortion at home. Similarly, Huckabee’s Fair Tax proposal appeals to both populist-minded liberals and spending-hawk conservatives...