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...credit for it." There was also the misguided audacity of his political tactics. He tried to fund his health-care plan, for example, in a budget that included one of the largest proposed tax increases in Illinois history. He lost that battle in humiliating fashion, garnering not a single vote in the state house of representatives. His attempts to privatize Illinois' downtown office property failed miserably as well...
...Daschle was elected to the Senate in 1986, after a tough campaign in which his opponent tried to link him to actress Jane Fonda's anti-war activism and convince cattle-country voters that Daschle advocated vegetarianism. Daschle won with 52% of the vote and, in the Senate, continued to work on issues such as agriculture subsidies, which he favored, and veterans' affairs...
...campaigned against Senator Chris Dodd to become Senate Minority Leader, winning by just won vote. He also served as Majority Leader after Vermont's Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party in 2001 to become an independent and caucus with the Democrats, giving Daschle a one vote majority...
...Mugabe is hardly any more popular inside Zimbabwe. His party lost its parliamentary majority in a general election in March, and Mugabe finished second behind opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential vote. But despite the election results and the near daily street protests in the capital, Harare, by doctors, teachers, trade unions and, last week, a few hundred soldiers who ransacked shops and stalls, most Zimbabweans don't expect to be rid of Mugabe anytime soon. "You can have governments under threat from a few days of protest in Thailand or Greece, or food riots destabilizing regimes around...
...army killed thousands of civilians in a campaign to bloody the opposition Zapu Party. When his ruling Zanu-PF lost the March election, the security forces and allied militia were again unleashed to bludgeon Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) into backing out of a presidential runoff vote. Yet when Zimbabweans protest, with backing by world leaders, at its government's refusal to be voted out - the normal channels of democratic process - that action has little or no effect on Mugabe's political calculations...