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...Fisheries?a position that gave him scant preparation for running the country. Small wonder that he has committed a string of political and diplomatic faux pas that have eroded his popularity during his 13 months as President. Roh has to take a large measure of blame for the partisan hostility that has poisoned South Korean politics in the past year. Most damaging for Roh, a self-declared corruption fighter, were the campaign-finance scandals involving his aides, which caused the President's approval ratings to plunge below 30% and sparked the first hints by opposition lawmakers that they might move...
...report from the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit, non-partisan research group based in Washington, D.C., highlighted the overlap between contributors to Kerry and Bush, which include UBS Americas, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, Inc. as top donors. In fact, nine of the top 20 Kerry contributors actually gave more money to Bush than to Kerry, according to the report...
...should have played its part in eliminating the “appearance of corruption” that the Supreme Court cited in its decision, and it still can when it meets to discuss further 527 regulation in March—if its members can get past petty partisan politics...
Numerous studies by non-partisan media research groups have demonstrated that Dean received a disproportionate share of negative campaign coverage. According to the Center for Media and Public Affairs, he received twice as much coverage as Kerry in 2003. Forty-nine percent of Dean’s mentions were deemed positive, compared to a whopping 78 percent for the other Dems combined. It became even worse on the day of Iowa: before the caucuses, the Center reports that 98 percent of the network evening news coverage of Kerry and Edwards was positive, compared to 58 for Dean. Even more remarkable...
Even after you’re through with the culture shock, you still have to play two hockey games in packed, partisan rinks. It’s no wonder Harvard has swept Clarkson and St. Lawrence on the road exactly once since the 1992-1993 season...