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...into key marginal seats, and Blair gave a speech condemning the Lib Dems' policies on crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters "37 32 22" - his predicted share of Thursday's vote for Labour, Tories and Lib Dems. Close enough: the actual result...
...says elections must be dull, worthy affairs? Three weeks before Brits go to the polls, the great pageant of British democracy was throwing off moments of offbeat hilarity that derailed the parties' ferocious message machines. The Conservatives have gained traction by pushing an annual limit on immigrants, which is why their Dorset South candidate Ed Matts released a photo of him and former Minister Ann Widdecombe holding posters reading controlled immigration, not chaos and inhumanity. Unfortunately, in the original, he was holding a photo of a family of Malawian refugees, and her poster said let them stay...
...Kabul bazaar, music sellers offer 57 different tapes of his performances, all pirated. At a recent wedding, an Afghan thrust a boom box into the singer's face, unabashedly recording him for future sales. Copyright laws, like road safety and gun control, have not yet gained much traction in Afghanistan...
That surely was one of the political calculations the Republicans made when deciding to get so involved in the Schiavo case, which was first discussed in the halls of Congress late last year. At a time when G.O.P. leaders in Congress have been unable to gain much traction on issues like abortion and gay rights--which are near and dear to Christian conservatives--this was a no-lose opportunity to burnish their credentials with their most demanding and important supporters. Still, many Republicans reject the notion that anything but deep moral conviction motivated the extraordinary legislative measure. "It's hard...
Though that matchup doesn’t lean in either direction, preventing Harvard’s offense from gaining any traction will be crucial to a Wildcats victory and a shot at advancing to the regional final...