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...launch reworked another familiar phrase, saying, "Yes we can ... make things better without spending more money." Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meanwhile, chose a rural backdrop for Labour's manifesto unveiling on Monday: a sunlit cornfield, the grain undulating in a virtual breeze. Britain? This looked more like Oklahoma. (See pictures of the U.K. election campaign...
...colleague Bill Knapp, a former media strategist for Obama, have been retained by the Tories. Labour has brought in Joel Benenson, lead pollster and senior strategist to Obama; his colleague Peter Brodnitz, who worked on the Democrats' 2008 congressional campaigns; and Michael Sheehan, a veteran speech coach. (See pictures of Barack Obama on Flickr...
...there. Dunn, Knapp and Sheehan have all been hired to prepare Cameron and Brown for Britain's first-ever televised debates between party leaders (the Liberal Democrats' Nick Clegg will also take part). The first will be broadcast live on Thursday. Britons, used to abrasive political debates that routinely see the Prime Minister and leader of the opposition swapping contemptuous jibes while backbenchers heckle gleefully, may notice an American politesse to the TV confrontations. That's because the party leaders agreed to participate only if the broadcasts followed the deferential model of the U.S. presidential debates...
...party sufficient backing for a conclusive victory. Andrew Hawkins, chairman of the polling organization ComRes, says that "too many people still don't know what the Conservative leader stands for. His rating on this measure has been static for the past two years at approximately 50-50." (See "David Cameron: U.K.'s Next Leader...
...underdogs, the Liberal Democrats have nothing to lose and much to gain. As for Labour, its coffers are empty, and debates, paid for by the broadcasters, represent free air time. "I relish the opportunity to debate the issues and to set out my vision," said Brown. (See a TIME video with Gordon Brown...