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But whether he merely keeps the seat warm until elections next year — when Jacob Zuma, his party's leader, presumably will take over — depends on whether Mr. Zuma, 66, can continue to skirt the corruption charges that have long followed him.
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The Tories are striving to convert this into a general election warm-up.
It allows them to denounce Republican prevarication on global warming during the election campaign while waiting for a more pliable new president.
Just as, in 2009 after his victory over Turnbull, he fronted the media to cast doubt on the reality of global warming, after his election victory in 2013 he has set about dismantling Australia's carbon pricing and climate mitigation policy framework.
The speech, his most detailed statement on global warming since his election in 2008, showed a president who has become chastened — at least rhetorically — by the practical and political difficulties of combating climate change.
In effect, the McConnell-Reid plan would see Republicans reduce that initial demand by hundreds of billions of dollars (and drop the Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security component entirely) in exchange for the supposed political upside of keeping the deficit debate warm into the 2012 election season and being able to claim that they didn't increase the debt ceiling.
And neither candidate even addressed global warming during the general election campaign.
Political attention begins to focus on November elections, but the food fight for the next presidential election is warming up.
