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...quickly spiked near the top of Twitter's trending topics, and Rachel Maddow played the spot on her MSNBC show, calling it "so bad, no one wanted to believe it was real." Not wanting to be left out of the controversy, the third Republican candidate in the race to unseat Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore, responded by launching a website - Demonsheep.org - that asked people to "pledge your efforts to stop these Jawa-like, Terminator-esque Demon Sheep from taking over California...
...Anwar has dominated Malaysian politics for more than four decades - first as a student leader in the 1970s and then as a rising minister in the government of Mahathir Mohamad. Eventually, as a powerful and charismatic Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar was poised to unseat Mahathir and take the reins of government when he was cut down in the fallout over how to tackle the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. As a prisoner, Anwar continued to influence national politics, turning his plight into a global cause, forming a multiracial political party and putting together an opposition coalition - all from behind bars...
...Party and more recently with Arizonans." Hayworth cites a recent poll that found 61% of Arizona Republicans think McCain has lost touch with his party. "It's not a visceral dislike. It's just, I think, a disappointment." If Hayworth runs, he would join two other conservatives trying to unseat McCain. In a sign of the incumbent's concern, he has already raised $4.7 million to defend himself, and he has more than $20 million left over from 2008. Prevailing in the primary would all but secure McCain a fifth term in the Senate: Democratic leaders in Washington say they...
...Many Italians believe he is unfairly targeted by magistrates who feel they should step into the vacuum left by a feeble center-left opposition that cannot unseat Berlusconi via political means...
...cabal of so-called poteri forti (strong powers) of Italian business and cultural élites who are allied with magistrates and foreign governments that are worried that Berlusconi has become a liability for political and economic stability. But even if there were such a surreptitious movement afoot to unseat the Prime Minister, any supposed "strong powers" from outside of Parliament would also require some sign of strength from within the political system. And even a weakened Berlusconi still looks mighty strong compared to the rest of Italy's political class...