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...down by a helper who's scampered before the day's work is done. Which gets him started on how, as he sees it, the government favors certain types of people. "Basically, people who haven't got a lot," he says. "But I haven't got a lot either. I've got a big mortgage and I work really hard - 70 or 80 hours a week - and they take a helluva lot of tax from me. But I never seem to see much for it." At this moment, the chill wind feels like a dark foreboding for the nine-year...
...electoral execution to which all long-term governments are vulnerable - the kind where voters decide they're sick of the sight of you. Days out from polling, Clark's best hope rests in the vagaries of the country's Mixed Member Proportional voting system, which make it unlikely that either major party will form a government on its own. Wooing minor-party support when the pressure's on has been a Clark knack. On election night, however, if the numbers fall as badly for Labour as some pollsters are forecasting, her renowned negotiation skills will be worthless...
...What we’re witnessing in the media is a tragic study in what women are up against running for office in this country. Either they are seen as competent and threatening or as a joke worthy of ridicule,” Steinberg said, speaking about the coverage of Hillary Clinton as well...
...next president—whoever he may be—needs to have the best thinking around him,” Scowcroft, who has not endorsed either Barack Obama or John McCain, said. “There are problems that come from areas of the world we don’t understand...
...economy is far from the only unpredictable force the 44th President will contend with. Experts are forecasting a surge in the number of Democrats in Congress that would give Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid the largest majorities either party has had since the early 1990s. This would obviously limit the options of a Republican President McCain. But Congress would be a complicating factor in the life of President Obama too. After all, the Constitution envisions a strong Congress, and that's just the way committee chairmen like it. After more than a dozen...