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Current opinion polls have Likud well ahead of its closest rivals.
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So have two Likud ministers planning to challenge Mr Netanyahu for the leadership.
Opinion polls suggest that with Mr Sharon at its helm, Kadima would have trounced Likud at the election in March.
I think it's not unfair to say that the real difference this time is that we have a Likud primary in two weeks and Israeli elections coming up very shortly.
It will be an act of profound symbolism, which is why so many Israelis and much of Mr Sharon's own Likud party—have sworn to prevent it (see article).
Netanyahu has seen his own Likud Party move to his right and knows that his future as party leader is questionable.
Polls that had shown Likud winning as many as 41 seats in the 120-member Parliament on Jan . 28suddenly predicted 27 seats for Likud, only 3 more than for Labor.
Not only has his Likud already joined forces with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's powerful ultranationalist party, but Monday's primary promoted Likud pro-settler hardliners at the expense of perceived moderates.
Netanyahu has declared Likud the anchor of the Israeli right, repudiated the feasibility of a two-state solution, brazenly defied the White House (Likud robocalls refer to "Hussein Obama"), and rallied mainstream conservative voters to identify with ultra-nationalist settlers and ultra-Orthodox communities.
Netanyahu has remade Likud in his image — so much so that it is now unclear whether the Party can survive without him.
But, after watching the exchange, I realized that the vender's ten-second shouted question had given Likud a fourteen-minute-fifty-second advantage.
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