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...have ever seen," says John Kostyack, director of wildlife conservation and global warming for the National Wildlife Federation. As required under law, the Administration opened the proposed change to a 10-day period of public comment - and received some 300,000 comments, which greens say indicates just how unpopular the proposal would...
...Professors said they believe McCain is unlikely to win for several reasons, especially, according to Frankel, because of a general mistrust in the Republican Party stemming from the Bush administration’s failures in the past eight years. “Senator McCain, closely linked to an unpopular president...has underestimated the angst people in America have with the Republican brand,” Vilsack said. Putting it simply, Hochschild said, “McCain has run a poor campaign.” Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz said McCain lowered his chances of capturing the independent vote...
...could have nominated that could have made this a competitive race the way that John McCain did." "It's one thing we know for sure is that at a congressional level, the Senate Democratic majorities and the House Democratic majorities will expand," Schmidt said. "The party has been very unpopular. The President's approval numbers were not helpful in the race. But the party as a whole is unpopular with the American people, and that was a big albatross...
...pundits are already warning that Obama could overreach, that Democratic congressional leaders are still unpopular, that this is still a center-right country. But it wasn't tonight. Obama will have the luxury of taking office at a time when the GOP is the AIG of electoral politics, when his predecessor has set the lowest bar since James Buchanan, when a supposedly conservative Administration just started nationalizing the banking system, when the public is desperate for change. What is it about tonight's results that suggests Obama should be afraid of progressive action on the cusp of a depression...
...pointing out that Shaheen initially supported the war in Iraq as well as Bush's tax cuts, and using footage of her repeatedly saying "I'll stand with President Bush" in 2002. It's a long-shot effort from a politician whose rise has been halted by an unpopular president. "If the question is who is closer to Bush," says a top Shaheen strategist, "that's an easy one. He loses...