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Last fall, just six years after Dick Cheney left the Dallas office of Halliburton for Washington, Democrats swept every county-wide contested race. And on May 12, Dallas sent an openly gay candidate into next month's mayoral runoff. If city councilman Ed Oakley defeats former Turner Construction CEO Tom Leppert, Dallas will become the first big U.S. city to elect a gay mayor. Dallas would join Berlin and Paris as major cities led by gays. Wait--Dallas...
...first sight, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy would seem to continue the Anglo-French tradition of coming from different planets. Sarkozy, who won an easy victory in the French presidential runoff election on May 6, is the son of a capricious Hungarian émigré aristocrat. A mediocre student who still refers painfully to the "humiliations" of his childhood, he embraced Gaullist conservatism as a young man when most of his contemporaries were reveling in the make-love-not-war spirit of the late '60s. He triumphed in the French vote by painting himself as the candidate of change. "Together...
...Exchanges like that one kept the debate - the only one before Sunday's runoff election - bubbling on for more than a half hour beyond its schedule; the two journalists at the square table as moderators were reduced to essentially throwing out bait for the pair to chew on. Royal, dressed soberly in a white collared shirt and black blazer, kept her eyes riveted on Sarkozy (blue suit and striped tie) as she unrolled ideas as she saw fit rather than in the ordered sequence the moderators vainly tried to preserve. Several times they had to intervene to give Sarkozy...
...right National Front and another 11.5 million for a gallimaufry of no-hopers, an unprecedented 37 million voters turned out on April 22 to propel Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal into a May 6 runoff between mainstream right and left. The strong showing of centrist contender François Bayrou (who captured 18.5% of the vote, compared to Sarkozy's 31% and Royal's 26%), now presents the two remaining candidates with the classic task of wooing the moderate vote without alienating their partisans. That...
...first-round vote that drew an 84% turnout, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won more than 31% of the returns, vs. nearly 26% for Royal, setting up a classic left-right contest for the May 6 runoff. France is enthralled. It's the first matchup of candidates born after World War II, and with high unemployment and immigration boiling issues, the stakes are enormous. Royal desperately needs the votes of centrist François Bayrou, who took 18.5% of the first-round tally. She has reached out to Bayrou, but the would-be kingmaker is refusing to endorse either finalist. Sarkozy seems...