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...legal repercussions, the amateurism and cronyism of her brief administration hardly leaves Palin sitting pretty. Troopergate's final verdict may be even more damaging than a rebuke: her administration was, at least this regard, just as self-motivated as the Washington fat cats and lobbyists she hopes to unseat...
...person who believes the investment can pay off is Senator Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat who co-chairs Obama's national campaign. She used a similar strategy in 2006 to unseat Republican Jim Talent. McCaskill stumped hard and spent money across southern Missouri, traditionally Republican turf, narrowing her losses there and leaving Talent unable to overcome her huge advantages in the traditional Democratic strongholds of Kansas City and St. Louis. (View a gallery of campaign gaffes here...
...franchiser who is a leading financial and political backer of McCain's comprehensive immigration reform approach, defends Sproul's involvement in the race, calling Pearce part of the "David Duke wing of the party" and saying that Sproul showed "courage" in taking on the task of trying to unseat Pearce...
...former advisor - take the helm and sustain the National Front's hold on power? Already, Anwar's power play has been dismissed as a mere rhetorical flourish by the ruling coalition. Why else, they ask, did the opposition leader miss his self-imposed deadline of Sept. 16 to unseat the National Front? Abdullah himself sniffed that his rival's confidence of a political takeover was a "mirage." Indeed, on Sept. 24, Anwar himself seemed to be scaling back expectations of an imminent political shift. "[The People's Alliance] agreed neither to be provoked into hasty action," he said...
...only challenger - others may include Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, a former national security chief, and ex-Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel - but Qalibaf, a conservative, came in a respectable fourth in the 2005 presidential election, which makes many think he has the best chance to unseat Ahmadinejad...