Also, the nation is unhappy with what's going on in Washington, but President Bush is still pushing ahead with his agenda, including the unpopular Iraq war and his opposition to the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

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He has carefully narrowed any differences between Labor and the coalition on economic policy, focusing instead on issues where he has managed to steal the agenda from Mr Howard, such as children's welfare and reforming an unpopular, overly-generous parliamentarians' pension scheme.

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Never being one to shy away from expressing an unpopular opinion, I said that I wanted to get married and have children.

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Lugo, a former Catholic bishop, was unpopular with lawmakers, and many had concerns about his credibility after he admitted to fathering at least two children while still in the priesthood.

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