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...members have seen their passion for Democratic candidates be stoked with the loss of the Democratic Senate seat,” Luntao said. “We are looking to really regain the kind of energy that there was on campus during the 2008 election...
...Democrats have become even more uncomfortable following the loss of the party's Senate seat in Massachusetts in January. "People talk about the potency of the health care issue," Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior strategist for victorious underdog Republican Scott Brown, told the National Review on election day, "but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants." (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...
...staff whispered, "An enormous well-oiled machine for eatin' bad guys." In another hangar, Gates got a glimpse of the fledgling Afghan air force and stepped into the cockpit of an old Russian Mi-17 attack helicopter. "Don't you love the irony of Gates in the pilot's seat of an Mi-17 that he was getting Stingers to shoot down?" said his spokesman Geoff Morrell...
...also looking unlikely that the U.S. Senate will pass carbon-capping legislation anytime soon - Obama lost a key vote for cap and trade when Republican Scott Brown won the late Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in a special election in Massachusetts - and that could potentially invalidate the U.S. Copenhagen pledge and throw the continuing international climate talks into further disarray. "Unless [the U.S.] is serious about its own commitments, there will be a very serious impact on the talks," said Rae Kwon Chung, South Korea's ambassador on climate change. (See the world's most polluted places...
...Since Saiful publicly accused his former boss of sexual misconduct, the growing momentum that Anwar had enjoyed in the aftermath of the 2008 general-election victories, in which his coalition won five states and took 82 seats in the 222-seat parliament, has been gradually dissipating. The Pakatan Rakyat coalition formed in that cycle has been hit by defections, internal squabbles and major differences over how to treat Islam, Malay special privileges and, more recently, the Allah issue. The differences are shattering unity in the coalition. Prime Minister Najib, who still enjoys majority Malay support, is on a major charm...