Europeans tend mostly to identify with the leftish end of the American political spectrum.
Worse, Mr Obama's administration has not made much progress at all towards several cherished leftish goals.
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Support is growing for everything leftish, from tackling global warming to letting gays marry.
The only opposition party represented in parliament, the leftish Republican People's Party, is mired in internal squabbles.
Tax cuts will stimulate the economy and return resources to citizens, argues the supposedly leftish Mr Zapatero.
There were signs that fear of a Conservative victory was driving leftish voters to the Liberal fold.
They have much in common: short-term presidencies, compulsive tracking of racial diversity, escalating tuitions and generally leftish politics.
The more intriguing question is how far Mr Sarkozy will follow up his leftish-sounding rhetoric with concrete policies.
Cunning old Mr Posthumus has tried to depict Ms Granholm as slippery, shallow and more leftish than she appears.
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The Democrats, a small, leftish party, support the tax but not on food.
In an interesting gesture, Mr Kirchner has given the foreign ministry to Rafael Bielsa, a leftish jurist and anti-corruption campaigner.
In the run up to the vote, Mr Martin had forged a short-term alliance with the leftish New Democratic Party.
They see the provincial government, run by the leftish New Democratic Party, as inept and unaware of the need for reform.
Protestants for the Common Good, formed in 1995 to counter the impact of the religious right, has an overtly leftish agenda.
Leftish candidates gained ground: the Workers' Party beat its most optimistic forecasts.
Likewise the worry that the main pro-independence group, Fretilin, has leftish views.
No doubt, one reason is the traditional leftish enthusiasm for bigger government.
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In politics his sympathies were with Conservatism, albeit of a leftish sort.
Even leftish Democrats worry that Miss Reno's liberal image will lose votes, especially in conservative rural areas in the north of the state.
Leftish Islington, for example, thinks it a good idea to harry local businesses to reduce the ratio between their highest- and lowest-paid workers.
The most famous modern manifestation of leftish fury, in Paris in May 1968, seemed to him a Club Med affair of spoiled middle-class kids.
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American conservatives have seized on this reversal of fortune: Arthur Laffer, a Reaganite economist, hails the Texan model over the Gipper's now hopelessly leftish home.
Its target is the current president, Hugo Chavez, a leftish, nationalist ex-paratrooper and former coup-leader, and his proposed new constitution, which opponents denounce as authoritarian.
The trouble is that Ms Rousseff hails from the left of a leftish party and elections are won on the back of wide ranging promises.
That is less likely if the health of Turkey's leftish prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, continues to decline, resulting in political paralysis in Turkey (see article).
Of the 100 companies included in a poll this week by the Asahi Shimbun, a leftish daily, a quarter had experienced difficulty in borrowing from banks.
So, at worst, a bitter contest could merely reinforce the gridlock, with a re-elected, more leftish Comrade Obama pitted against a still more intransigent Republican Congress.
His moment came in 1995 when he helped Mr Prodi launch the Olive Tree, gathering ex-communists, leftish Catholics, greens and a sprinkling of socialists in its shade.
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No wonder that other ministers in the three-party coalition led by Bulent Ecevit, the leftish veteran whose unwise words set off the crisis in February, are feeling twitchy.
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They have the excuse that Mr Obama initially did far too little to woo moderate Republicans on health care, handing the project over to leftish Democrats in Congress.
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