Word: unpopularity
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...While Democrats usually benefit when economic concerns dominate an election, Barack Obama is running only a few points ahead of John McCain in statewide polls, a margin neither side considers safe. Adding to Obama's challenges is the fact that several of the state's Democratic leaders are wildly unpopular, under indictment or both...
...Obama will attack too, probably flooding the airwaves with images of McCain palling around with the terribly unpopular President Bush...
...been an impressive performance, especially coming from a member of the lame-duck Administration of an unpopular President. What's not at all certain, though, is whether it's all going to work - to revive housing, prevent recession and avert a future mortgage bailout of epic, trillion-dollar proportions. The candidates for President are watching closely: both Barack Obama and John McCain have generally endorsed Paulson's actions, but it's clear that - with Obama's candidacy propelled in part by economic discontent - McCain has a greater stake in the current Administration's success. Either way, the next President...
...McCain's new story line speaks directly at the apparent concerns of a vast swath of voters who are still hesitant about supporting Obama, despite their disapproval of recent Republican policies and an unpopular Republican President. But it also carries a risk for McCain, because at a time of great economic anxiety, when voters claim to be eager to hear positive solutions, it is fundamentally negative in tone - a pose that McCain has been less comfortable with in the past...
...Politically speaking, Olmert may have been a dead man walking for more than a year now, but leaving an enfeebled and unpopular Prime Minister in place may have suited most of his potential successors, each of whom who has used the intervening period to burnish his or her own claims. And despite his dire domestic political prospects, Olmert focused his energies on Israel's relations with its neighborhood. He has called time on his tenure at a moment when he is engaged in talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over the terms of a future peace agreement, as well...