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Winning the people’s “hearts and minds” is the key to victory in an insurgency.
How Macron Can Unite EuropeMUNICH – Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election sent a wave of relief and euphoria across Europe.
Hussein had been promised Syria in the event of a military victory over the Turks.
So one of the two sides was certain to be cheated out of the spoils of its victory, and it was clear from the beginning which side was weaker, namely the Arabs striving for independence.
America’s Race to the Ballot’s BottomWASHINGTON, DC – Hillary Clinton’s US presidential campaign has been torn between trying to secure the largest possible victory for the candidate herself and explicitly helping fellow Democratic gubernatorial and legislative candidates further down the ballot.
With just a week left before the election, the presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country: whereas Republican nominee Donald Trump is struggling to cobble together the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, Clinton is trying to lock up as large a victory – in both the popular vote and the Electoral College – as possible.
Just a week ago, Clinton seemed to be heading toward an overwhelming victory.
Even before the leftist Syriza party’s overwhelming victory in Greece’s recent general election, it was obvious that, far from being over, the crisis was threatening to worsen.
But, though Syriza’s victory may mark the start of the next chapter in the euro crisis, the political – and possibly existential – danger that Europe faces runs deeper.
Yet myth-making was not absent on the night of her victory.
In Cristina’s victory, and that of her husband, there were no mass celebrations.
The West’s effort to cement its Cold War victory was no less predictable than Russia’s effort to reverse it.
Above all in France, because there is a real possibility that the present conservative government could be thrown out of power by a socialist victory in the parliamentary elections in the spring of 1998.
A year ago, forecasting a victory by either would have been considered absurd; today, we must admit that such scenarios are all too possible.
Likewise, a victory for the far-right nationalist Le Pen next spring would signal France’s rejection of Europe.
Instead, by going after the hard-pressed 47% of America – the very people who have been hurt the most by reckless bank behavior – his prospect of victory in November has been severely damaged.
Without these, military victory and occupation quickly turn to ashes.
Extending an olive branch to Russia will have little or no voter appeal in most EU countries, and Putin’s efforts to retain power de facto if not de jure after Medvedev wins his likely victory next March are certain to make matters worse.
Manafort’s role in the campaign was to help Trump sew up the nomination and run the Republican Party convention, at which Trump’s victory would become official.
Moreover, “center-right” often means “conservative,” and Macri’s victory will not “conserve” the status quo.
Macri’s victory could accelerate that process.
Likewise, Macri’s victory could give voters in Venezuela – headed to the polls on December 6 – the courage they need to cast their ballots against their increasingly authoritarian government.
A victory for the pro-EU independent centrist Emmanuel Macron could be a positive turning point, with France rejecting populism and deepening its connections with Germany.
In fact, the old French proverb, “never two without three,” may seem to indicate that, after those two votes, a Le Pen victory is all but inevitable.
I raise all of this because Krugman took a victory lap in his end-of-2014 column on “The Obama Recovery.”
Netanyahu’s victory was clearly an impressive personal comeback.
And before Trump’s victory, such conditions spurred the UK’s so-called “left behind” to vote for Brexit.
Earlier this month, Citigroup took advantage of this formative political moment by seizing an opportunity to score a tactical victory – but one that amounts to a strategic blunder.
Some correlate Trump’s victory with a broader trend toward populism in the West, and, in particular, in Europe, exemplified in the United Kingdom’s vote in June to leave the European Union.
In the months preceding the election, the mainstream media, pundits, and pollsters kept repeating that Trump had an extremely narrow path to victory.
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