And a turbulent, anti-politics mood, stirred by the tea-party movement, is making even incumbents nervous.
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Others carp that Mr Clegg should have profited more from the anti-politics mood provoked by last year's parliamentary-expenses scandal.
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Yet Mr Bradley's own form of anti-politics seems to be doing pretty well.
However, the e-mails came to the attention of Paul Staines, author of the "anti-politics" Guido Fawkes blog, who revealed their existence.
And hanging over these elections is an anti-politics mood of some magnitude.
Meanwhile, anti-abortion activists demonstrated at the state capital in Kansas, a hotbed of anti-abortion politics.
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He began dabbling in anti-establishment politics while working in the shipping industry.
That Target has had its supposedly anti-gay politics spotlighted again, by Lada Gaga of all people, has to, as I said, really, really sting.
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Second, both embody an anti-elite politics.
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Can a left-libertarian politician get anywhere in American politics, or will politics always be anti-libertarian?
Roma activists blame Jiri Cunek, a Christian Democratic leader and former deputy prime minister, for making anti-Roma prejudice acceptable in mainstream politics.
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His clean-politics theme appeals to his state's political culture: anti-money progressivism flourished in Wisconsin at the turn of the century, and still colours local attitudes.
Social movements - as the anti-graft movement is often described - and collective action have never really made the great leap into politics in India.
Casey, the state treasurer, is a pro-gun rights, anti-abortion Democrat whose family name carries weight in Pennsylvania politics.
It may be that a kind of pendulum is built into American politics: if the gun lobby or the anti-affirmative-action movement scores a victory, its supporters grow complacent and its adversaries redouble their efforts, so that the victory is soon reversed.
Hobson, Billy Sunday, the Anti-Saloon League, and Mabel Willebrandt were synonymous with Prohibition and national politics.
The Tea Party is a loosely organised movement of anti-tax conservative activists, and the word "patriot" in US politics has largely come to signify a conservative stance.
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Last month, anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare parted ways with Mr Kejriwal over plans to enter politics.
Mr Clegg wants to renew the reforming tradition of the old Liberal Party with ideas ranging from anti-sleaze measures (he was due to give a speech on money in politics on March 13th) to constitutional reform.
If Bersani fails, Napolitano could tap someone else, a fresh face to politics, like newly chosen Senate President Piero Grasso, a widely respected former anti-Mafia prosecutor, said D'Alimonte, a professor at LUISS university in Rome.
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