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...Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who, facing a conservative revolt in his state, last year bolted the GOP to run as a Democrat in his re-election bid this year. But with even Florida's usually centrist independent voters appearing to shun Crist now, polls suggest Rubio could defeat him in November as well as the leading Democratic candidate, Congressman Kendrick Meek. Either way, Crist adamantly rejects the idea, and aides close to him insist he's not considering...
...Obama, however, was undeterred by the defeat, and just four years later won the U.S. Senate seat that positioned him for the White House. The congressional race, as it happened, was merely an aberration in a series of professional and political triumphs unmarred by any genuine or lasting setbacks. Even when he ceded a few key primary contests to Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama was able to swiftly regain the upper hand. To this day, then, the Rush contest stands out as an anomaly in Obama's political life, when a loss seemed to truly threaten his future. (See pictures...
...upcoming series of congressional votes that are designed to get health care legislation to his desk, it will be a calamitous failure for his presidency and for him personally, dwarfing the potholes he has hit during his first bumpy year in office. Indeed, the notion of defeat is so unthinkable for his Administration that Obama's foremost argument in rounding up support in the House and Senate is a panoptic imperative: health care is too important - politically and substantively - to fail. Should the effort collapse, regaining political traction would be nigh impossible any time soon, if ever. And a potential...
...moderate bill he wanted without having to play the heavy with the lower chamber). And he knew that final passage would require the kind of breathtaking, down-to-the-wire vote-whipping that would demand the full power of his office to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat...
...parallel stories of Zakir and Zaeef embody the complexities that exist within the Taliban. Their shared religious fervor may explain why - despite NATO's intention to extend its massive assault on Marjah into a sweep through the Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan - it may take years to militarily defeat the Taliban...