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True. On the other hand, it's the 54th recall initiative, and the 6th attempt to recall Newsom. Every governor for the last 50 years has had them. But you need 12% of voters to support it, and i… (View Post)

Interestingly the shift has come almost entirely from direct CDU-SPD switchers (unless there are cross-currents that we can't see). People who aren't very political and are just interested … (View Post)

I'm not a fan of term limits (seems a restriction on the right of people to choose who they want) but I recognise that pattern with Tony Blair too. In the last few years in power, he apparently … (View Post)

Well...a story to appeal to Leon, perhaps. When I lived in Switzerland as a rising young IT executive in a very respectable, slightly stuffy pharmaceuticals company, I had a girlfriend who was up for… (View Post)