Word: populistic
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...Democrats, it is a veritable free-for-all. Louisiana public service commissioner Foster Campbell, a North Louisiana populist in the Huey Long tradition, is in the running. But many are pinning their hopes on former U.S. Senator John Breaux, who left office in 2005 to join a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. Breaux remains a popular, widely known figure, but there's one problem: having changed his permanent address to Maryland, he may be ineligible to run for state office under residency requirements set forth in Louisiana's constitution, a snag Republicans started hammering away at in television attack...
...into their countries with xenophobic disdain. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three of the E.U.'s then 15 countries--Ireland, Britain and Sweden--opened their labor markets...
...Anson Chan. "They're worried that there will be implications for stability; that Hong Kong will become a welfare state; that the wrong people will get elected." Most of Hong Kong's top business leaders have traditionally been lukewarm toward full democracy, too, fearing that it could lead to populist policies that would undermine both the economy and, perhaps, their influence...
...measure of the French electorate. "Millions of people in France feel the same look from those on top," he says. "They need to know that the people giving them those glances aren't the real voice of France." With Bayrou's campaign ascendant thanks to such populist talk, his rivals' glances are no longer snide, they're nervous. Profile
This is not the image of Ahmadinejad-- the bombastic, headline-grabbing populist --the world has grown used to. Since his election in 2005, Ahmadinejad has become the most prominent Iranian on the global stage since Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the guiding hand of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution. Ahmadinejad owes his visibility partly to Iran's rise as a regional power and partly to his penchant for spouting what U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns calls "the most abhorrent, irresponsible rhetoric of any global leader in many years." It's that rhetoric, along with Iran's meddling in Iraq...