Those who know George Osborne point to his resilience and capacity for hard work, but an acknowledgement of the political and economic prognosis: An anti politics mood lingers, the economy appears anaemic.
And a turbulent, anti-politics mood, stirred by the tea-party movement, is making even incumbents nervous.
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Britain's anti-politics mood did not need the boost that the expenses scandal has given it.
Still, this anti-politics Zeitgeist is a reality, and the two major parties have found no answer to it.
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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, they came to the attention of Paul Staines, author of the "anti-politics" Guido Fawkes blog, who revealed their contents.
Britain's anti-politics mood, which predates even the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009, is so vociferous that no party in particular suffers.
However, the e-mails came to the attention of Paul Staines, author of the "anti-politics" Guido Fawkes blog, who revealed their existence.
The anti-politics mood unleashed by last year's parliamentary-expenses scandal also makes it hard for any politician, however appealing, to electrify the public.
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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This is radicalism plus responsibility, greenery plus growth, party politics and anti-party attitudes all at once.
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In 1974, together with her fellow Weather Underground terrorist colleagues, she published a book called Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism.
In the current atmosphere, publishing scholarship on topics like Islamic Jew hatred, or anti-Semitism and progressive politics is widely viewed as a career ender.
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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KAPLAN'S PROFILE of Mearsheimer is part of a larger trend in US letters, politics and culture in which anti-Semitism is becoming more and more acceptable.
Today the discourse on anti- Semitism has been corrupted by politics.
It is another to hire PR and marketing consultants to create image makeovers for suspected al Qaeda financiers, foot soldiers, weapons trainers and bomb makers, all of which is financed by millions of dollars from a foreign country enmeshed in the anti-American, anti-Israel elements of Middle East politics.
In Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for his tough anti-illegal immigration stance, said that politics is behind the policy action.
As Latin American politics goes, Chavez was the anti-American.
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Even as social politics drift leftward, rightwing economics and anti-government rhetoric coupled with military adventurism have a strong foothold in the collective imagination.
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He thinks the widespread use of the mask "signifies a loss of trust in politics - Guy Fawkes is the most anti-political figure you can pick".
As a result, populism is appearing in domestic politics in the form of economic nationalism and anti-capitalist rhetoric.
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