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Friday, March 4, 2011

UK: A slow star for GOP presidential candidates

The Economist

Who dares take him on?
Despite their victories at the mid-terms, the Republicans seem oddly slow to start choosing a presidential candidate



"Mr Obama is also a stellar campaigner, with an unrivalled ability to attract volunteers and donations. He has been careful over the past two years to preserve the machine that got him elected last time, merely changing its name from Obama for America to Organising for America. The assumption is that he will mount as slick and well-funded a campaign in 2012 as he did in 2008. As Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi and a potential Republican candidate himself, said recently, Mr Obama “is one of the greatest politicians in the history of the United States”."

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http://www.economist.com/node/18284021

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