What is new is the arrival of a group of floating middle-class voters who swing between parties depending on how they perform, not on promises of rewards for their particular group.

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"It's like a floating support group, " proclaimed Jill Binkley, a physical therapist and two-time breast cancer survivor.

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The group has created a floating campus -- dubbed the Scholar Ship -- which will transport 700 students around the world as they complete their studies.

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Unilateral or accelerated adoption of the euro would make far less sense for a third group of bigger countries with floating exchange rates: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania.

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The paradox is that part of the euro's purpose is to re-empower the European electorate by equipping the EU with a currency strong enough to challenge the rule of the tiny group of foreign-exchange dealers who, in a floating exchange-rate regime, can settle the fate of national economic policies.

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