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...violence will end depends on whether Kibaki and Odinga can strike a deal. The two men were coalition allies in the 2002 election, but fell out when Kibaki failed to appoint Odinga Prime Minister. Five years later, positions are hardening further. Kibaki virtually disappeared after he was named winner, making no televised announcement. Odinga, meanwhile, has declared he will not negotiate with his rival until Kibaki admits he lost the election and steps down. Odinga said he was "pained by what is happening," but swore to force Kibaki from office, and called for a million of his supporters to gather...
...psychologically persuasive argument is simply having the largest group in the room, Bender says. "People want to be with a winner - the person who is most electable. 'Ooh, large groups, they're electable' - that's not a rare thought...
Will Wyoming Republicans regret their experiment? "I think the jury is still out," says Larimer, who contends that the risk will prove worthwhile only "if we pick a winner on Jan. 5. If it comes out undecided," she adds, "that would not be a good thing for our process...
...problem, however, is that Wyoming may declare for no clear favorite of its own on Jan. 5. Jan Larimer, Wyoming's national-level state committeewoman, who will lose her own 2008 convention seat under the RNC penalty, says, "It would be nice if we had a winner. I have no sense of any favorite so far. I think we're going to have a very mixed bag. I think we're going to have quite a few undecided, those not bound to support any one candidate." The 12 delegates who will be chosen on Saturday each have to represent...
...Verhofstadt also needs to lay the groundwork for a more permanent administration, led by the biggest winner of the June elections, Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme. Leterme, whose party has been out of office for eight years, has been unable to stitch together his own government coalition. At various times over the past six months, both he and his prospective coalition partners from the French-speaking parties have appeared baffled at one another's demands. An emergency coalition is thought to be one way of helping them understand each other better...