Analysts say Bush's presidential bid is suffering from problems including a lack of enthusiasm, poor debate showings, a crowded Republican field of 13 other candidates … and his last name.
But, to judge from the rhetoric of Labour's adversaries, it has succeeded in making compassion for the poor compulsory, and enthusiasm for early-years intervention and the NHS politically universal.That is some of what might appear in the positive column of a Labour reckoning.
Neither of them are likely to have been impressed with England's showing, particularly against Russia in a match which, at half-time, Powell's team's performance was described by Brooking as "flat, poor," adding, "the enthusiasm and zest is not there".
"Sure it would be great to have one large country, and cut our military burden, but when you think of what it would cost our country to support the North, which is really very poor, it takes your enthusiasm right away".
Mr. Toledo denied that he had used cocaine, and said the charge was part of a dirty-tricks campaign against him.] "There still isn't that much enthusiasm, but poor rural people feel closest to Toledo," said Alfredo Torres, a leading pollster, "especially compared to Lourdes Flores, who is an urban candidate of the upper and middle classes".
"When you see all the people on the roadsides of Italy, the enthusiasm of poor and rich, they all come together for this event," he said.
The enthusiasm came despite poor sales reports for September from many retailers.
"In our enthusiasm, we showed poor judgment by neglecting to include a disclaimer that the video was not shot using a Lumia 920," said Doug Dawson, head of media relations at Nokia, in a statement.
Heavy rain was falling on the day, in October, 1903, that the first municipal playground in New York opened, in Seward Park, on the Lower East Side; but poor weather hardly dampened the enthusiasm of the park's young constituents.
