Word: unpopular
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...within the SPD] will be amenable to the change," says Klaus-Peter Schöppner, head of the polling firm Emnid. "Instead I think we are witnessing the calm before the storm." Steinmeier is "hated by the far left of his party," says Schöppner, because he advocated unpopular economic reforms, especially tighter rules on unemployment compensation, under Chancellor Schroeder. Moreover, he will have a hard time challenging Merkel because his specialty has been foreign policy - "an area where Merkel is already stealing all the thunder...
...political turmoil and drama that have marred Olmert's tenure as prime minister, stalling peace talks with the Palestinians and, more recently, the Syrians. The police will now pass on their recommendation to the country's attorney general who will decide whether to prosecute Israel's beleaguered and unpopular leader...
...Kilpatrick scandal has also damaged an already weakened Democratic brand in Michigan. Governor Jennifer Granholm is nearly as unpopular as Kilpatrick, and was dragged into the mess when the Detroit city council asked her to hold public hearings to determine whether the mayor should be forced from office, a power the governor has under Michigan law. The hearings began yesterday, and their suspension in the wake of Kilpatrick's guilty plea now allows Obama to become the most visible Democrat in the state heading into the fall campaign. Obama will need the next two months to make up for what...
...dragging on his ambitions, an unpopular president mired in the polls and tangled in a troubled economy. It's nothing personal, but when a sailor - or politician - has exhausted all other strategies for hoisting the dead weight, he has no choice but to cut it loose...
...Civil War, there was a running joke about how most soldiers were old enough to shoot, but too young to vote," Cannon said. "That sentiment remained alive for another century before the Vietnam War, an unpopular and unsuccessful war that used young draftees as soldiers, created the perfect storm for the 26th Amendment...