So if Mr. Elop has successfully stayed in the ring, he needs to work on how he is going to fight his way back into contention.

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President Barack Obama gave yet another speech last week on how he is going to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment in the U.S. Of course, he is not up to the task.

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Munoz gets up around 5:00 a.m. to drive his bus route, and he calls home on his breaks to see how the cooking is going.

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He said he was going to refocus the fight on AIDS domestically, given how great is the constant over the last decade.

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"If there's a tidal wave coming from a credit event in Italy, then it doesn't matter how great your thesis is on Malaysia, the ringgit's going to get blown up, " he says.

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"If you keep putting a broken engine into your car, you're going to keep on having the same problem, no matter how good the mechanic is, " he says.

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He is not going to go off-message without a lot of discussion inside the campaign on how they wanted to handle it, " said Norm Ornstein, a veteran political analyst and author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.

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