One Big Loser

by Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc.First take on yesterday's primary elections: + Big Labor flooded Arkansas with advertising and get-out-the-vote workers. The effort, expected to end the Senate career of Blanche Lincoln, fell short.Lincoln used an endorsement by former President Clinton to take on Labor directly: 'This is about using you and manipulating your votes.' Labor leaders pointed out during the campaign that they were making an example of Lincoln for her failure to follow the unions' ...
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The Tea Partier in the GOP's midst

by Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc. The Republican Party will experience it at the local and state levels first, as Tea Party candidates defeat conventional Republicans and win GOP nominations. Some of those Tea Partiers will be kooky, others will be single-issue ideologues. A few will be anti-immigrant, a smattering will be paranoid. Others will be very like the Republicans they beat. In November most of the kooks, ideologues, nativists and paranoids will lose to a Democrat. That will cause ...
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How did the Democrats win Pennsylvania 12?

by Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc.  The Democratic candidate ran off with a decisive victory in the special election in Western Pennsylvania to replace Democratic Representative John Murtha, who died earlier this year. The Republicans looked for reasons but found mostly excuses. They said that so many Democrats wanted to vote against party-switcher Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary that their sheer numbers overwhelmed the Republican turnout. They said that Murtha had addicted his ...
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Is the oil leak Obama’s Katrina? No, it’s Carter’s Hostage Crisis

by Ken Feltman and Louis-Lyonel Voiron of Radnor Inc. We have received questions about the President's handling of the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Is the oil disaster President Obama's Katrina? The answer is no. First, Katrina came during a period of public questioning of President Bush's (largely self-proclaimed) management skills. Katrina was the last straw. The oil leak is more like President Carter's analytical and slowly evolving reaction to the Iranian hostage ...
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Europe's search for the new Holy Grail

By Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc. We have met the enemy, and he is us.- Pogo, the comic strip philosopher created by Walt Kelly Under the best of circumstances, the strong have trouble lifting the weak. More often, the weak pull down the strong. When the forerunner of the European Union was created with the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Europe's political leaders heralded a new spirit of cooperation that would bring the disparate countries into political and economic union that could close the gap of ...
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A General Summary on Generic Seractil Dexibuprofen Tablet Part 3

etc.). Some of the adverse effects are also haematological and cardiovascular. Generic Seractil Warnings and Precautions Apply caution while using Generic Seractil with other drugs that can enhance the risk of gastrointestinal ulceration or gastrointestinal bleeding or renal impairment. Also apply care in patients having gastrointestinal disorders, ulcerative colitis, previous gastric or duodenal ulcer, Crohn's disease and alcoholism. Closely monitor ...
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Rahm Emanuel for Mayor?

By Ken Feltman, Radnor Inc. Rahm Emanuel is considering a run for mayor of Chicago. The problem is that Chicago has a popular mayor who may seek another term. That mayor is named Daley and for thousands of Chicagoans, the Daley name is synonymous with the office. Emanuel needs a landing spot and letting his name circulate is a way for him to learn whether he has a shot. He will run only if anointed. With his name out there, Emanuel buys some time and deflects criticism for his hard-ball ...
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Special Report: Ukraine's Victor Yanukovich

by Ekaterina Egorova, PhD in Political Science & President of Moscow-based Niccolo M Group of Companies, and Elisabeth Egorova, Political Psychologist, Niccolo M Group of Companies What Kind of President in Ukraine did Medvedev and Obama get? Both Putin and Medvedev never hid their desire to see Victor Yanukovich in the armchair of Ukraine's President. They probably believed that he might be an easy president who would solve all problems inconvenient for Russia quickly, ...
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The Year of the Bloody Sock

By Ken Feltman, Radnor Inc. Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.- W. C. Fields So do most people. That is the crux of the Democrats' problem. District by district and state by state, the Democrats have given voters reasons to dislike them. They are testing the voters' patience as well as the old political axiom that people vote against, not for. Voters take a dislike to a candidate or elected official and then overlook the flaws and shortcomings in an opponent. In January, ...
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Britain Heads for Hung Parliament

by Ken Feltman, Radnor Inc.Radnor Inc. research completed yesterday, for Britain's May 6 election, confirms our earlier prediction that voters in the United Kingdom will force politicians to resolve a hung parliament. No party will win the majority required to form a government. Here are our final projection for seats in the new parliament and percentage of votes: Labour ' 230 seats/27%Tories ' 295 seats/35%Lib Dems ' 95 seats/28% Some Labour leaders have been anticipating the ...
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