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...Insiders for Berlusconi?s opposition acknowledge that they had the down-to-the-wire 2000 race for the White House top of mind as the final votes around Italy were being tallied past midnight on Tuesday. For Prodi?s side, Bush?s victory in 2000 was partly a product of the first impression voters had when a Fox News began reporting that he had taken Florida in a race that was by all accounts too close to call...
...Italian politics is built upon a never-ending supply of ironies. And so it was in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, with Berlusconi in a razor-tight battle for reelection against Romano Prodi, that his center-left opponents used their own familiarity with recent American political history-along with help from Berlusconi?s own TV network-to try to seal their victory, and send the billionaire packing...
...Fast-forward to Rome at around 2:30 a.m. With the center-left coalition clinging to a lead of 0.01 percentage point in the race for the Lower House of Parliament, Prodi, 66, suddenly appeared on stage before a jubilant celebration. Hugs were shared, champagne was popped, victory was declared...
...vital control of the Senate in a virtual deadlock-awaiting the final six seats to be determined by votes to be counted of Italians living abroad (it appeared later Tuesday that with support of those outside of Italy the center-left had clinched the Senate by two votes). Prodi?s appearance "in piazza" was a media moment that the center-left hopes will clinch him the Prime Minister?s job, even as Berlusconi?s allies scurried to demand a recount in a race that looks to have been decided by some 20,000 votes in an election that saw nearly...
...longest-serving Prime Minister in postwar Italy, Berlusconi might be tempted to try to score points off his opponent's youth and inexperience--except that his rival, former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, is 66. Whoever wins, Italy will remain the only West European country with a sexagenarian Prime Minister. For Italians the face-off between two candidates born in the 1930s is a discomfiting reminder of the country's geriatric tilt. "It's the same faces saying the same things," says Mariangela Potenza, 24, a university student from Basilicata. "There's nothing that transmits innovation or novelty to the voters...