Polls show Mr Rudd has more public support than Ms Gillard, who looks set to lose the election to the Liberal Party's Tony Abbott.
Rather than sitting on his lead, and counting on Mr. Romney to lose the election, Mr. Obama needs to be driving ahead to take positive steps to win the election, with a forceful and positive vision of the future.
"If Ralph Nader gets on the ballot, he would pull thousands of liberal votes that would otherwise go to Kerry and perhaps cause President Bush to lose the election, " read one script for the phone campaign, which CREW cited in its complaint.
No French politician has dared touch the tax since Jacques Chirac in 1986, who got rid of it as prime minister and went on to lose the presidential election two years later (the tax was reinstated in 1989).
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He too pulled off a pretty good local election performance this time four years ago - but still went on to lose the general election.
Public support for Ms Gillard is low and she looks on course to lose the coming election to the Liberal Party's Tony Abbot.
If Lynch's lead holds, Benson would be the only Republican governor to lose in the 2004 election.
My well informed contact in the region suggests that that single admission could be enough to lose the PM a close election, such is the passion for Marmite.
British Labour MEP Richard Howitt questioned that if Mr Sarkozy was to lose the forthcoming presidential election in France, "there could be a fairer hearing for Turkey".
The Labor government, which opinion polls suggest will lose the Sept. 14 election to the center-right Liberal Nationals, has said some companies are exploiting the rules to hire cheap labor from overseas at the expense of Australian workers.
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The Labor government, which opinion polls suggest will lose the Sept. 14 election to the center-right Liberal Nationals, has proposed changes to the 457 temporary work visa system and has said it would "put Aussie workers first" as the nation's economy has slowed, led by a cooling in the mining sector.
But Mr Prescott told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Labour had a 16-point lead a week before the 1970 general election - only to lose to the Conservatives.
In her loss, McKinney joined Rep. Earl Hilliard, Democrat of Alabama, as the second black lawmaker targeted by Jewish groups to lose a re-election bid in the post-September 11 era.
If the deal had othewise worked it would have been really devastating to lose it on that basis, since an election by the disregarded entities to be treated as corporations would have saved it.
One of our MPs privately admitted to us last week that they were expecting to lose their seat at the next election.
Yet it is clear that for Indian parliamentarians, more than two-thirds of whom can expect to lose their seats in the coming election, a few more months matter greatly.
The easy answer, preferred by the Tories, is that, realising he is about to lose an election, Mr Brown wants to change the rules.
Since the double ballot encourages people to split their vote, backing a small party for the Knesset and the Labour or Likud candidate for prime minister, both big parties lost votes to smaller ones in the 1996 election, and are likely to lose even more next time.
In Islamabad the British high commission noted a secret public-opinion survey of 2005 that showed that Mr Musharraf, the West's Pakistani ally against terrorism, would lose the next election to Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.
Some people never seem to lose no matter what the result of the election.
The strongly worded article written by the university leaders is intended as a dire warning against forcing universities to lose funding in public spending cuts after the general election.
The financial sector is especially sensitive to the fiscal cliff negotiations, and we saw them lose their relative strength a bit after the election.
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As they struggle to score 10% in opinion polls, they have everything to lose by provoking a general election anytime soon (the next one is due in 2015).
David Smilde, an analyst with the U.S.-based Washington Office on Latin America, said the opposition needs to run a candidate in the presidential election even though he believes it will almost certainly lose.
The bloc -- which was forecast to lose some ground but still win -- earned only 31 in this election, according to exit polling from the daily newspaper Haaretz, a sharp drop.
He can weather a few defections, particularly by individuals who still claim they want the Tories to win the next election, but he cannot afford to lose voters in any number.
The Buddhist parties fear they would lose half their seats if they had to fight an election in their present fractured state.
If he has started to gain ground that he does not lose again, this week could see the start of a winning election strategy.
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"What they did is what happens when panic sets in after they lose a Mississippi House seat, " he said, referring to the Democratic victory Tuesday night in a special election for what had been a staunchly Republican congressional district.
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