Word: runner
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...generally unhappy towards - and in many cases fed up with - the G.O.P. might still prefer a Republican for President over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton's case, as TIME pollster Mark Schulman points out, "with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. She may have limited upward potential against Republicans. The emerging anti-Hillarys, Obama and Edwards, suffer from low awareness at this point...
...G.O.P. race, Giuliani's post-announcement honeymoon appears to be over. The former New York City mayor's lead over erstwhile front-runner McCain has narrowed to 13 points, 35%-22%, among registered Republicans, down from a 20-point lead two weeks...
...casting a "yes" vote at the Fouad Galal school on the east bank of the Nile River in Cairo, Diab Abolibda, a 59-year-old engineer, described how in the presidential election two years ago he favored upstart candidate Ayman Nour over Mubarak. Asked how he felt now that runner-up Nour was serving a five-year prison term for election fraud, a verdict and sentence criticized by many democracy advocates as political punishment for brashly challenging the president's authority, Abolibda let out a hearty laugh and exclaimed, "I'm with Mubarak...
...about your friends from the kind of music they put on their playlists, so it's not hard to see why France's political parties take such great care when choosing the official songs for their presidential election campaigns. Take the case, for example, of conservative presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy: the former Interior Minister, Sarkozy faces a major problem with the children of immigrants, many of whom will be voting for the first time in this year's race, after denouncing immigrant rioters as "scum" during nationwide disturbances in 2005. So, his party, the UMP, sought to repair some...
...Miserable vocals, terrible rhythm, rubbish mixing." France's bloggers remain unimpressed with "Mon pays France," a rap offering from the party of conservative front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy...