Word: unpopular
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Tsongas' endorsement of nuclear power looks just as unpopular, particularly among environmentalists who might otherwise be his strong supporters. But a new generation of smaller and safer nuclear plants could help meet U.S. needs for electricity from sources that are free of the so-called greenhouse gases that appear to cause global warming...
...welfare plan has drawn little attention, Tsongas' suggestion for capping the growth of Social Security and other entitlement benefits has become a hot campaign issue. Clinton's denunciation of the idea in Florida attack ads last week helped cost Tsongas that state. Yet experts say the politically unpopular notion makes sound economic sense. "You have got to limit entitlements if you ever want to get the deficit under control," notes economist Cynthia Latta of the consulting firm DRI/McGraw-Hill. Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel faults Tsongas for not going further. "It's a little Band-Aid," Siegel says...
...former senator said he realized that someof his ideas may be unpopular, But McCarthy tooksolace in the example of Julius Caesar, who wasassassinated after establishing policies thatbenefitted Rome...
Political gurus on both sides are advising candidates that activism in foreign policy is a political loser. But a great candidate does not follow the polls; he makes them follow him. The true mark of leadership is not simply to support what is popular but to make what is unpopular popular, if that serves our national interest...
...said politicians do not have to make a choice between foreign and domestic spending but that "it is possible to spend abroad and at home at the same time if you do something that's very unpopular--and that's raise taxes...