Posturing is not the same thing as winning popular support.
If Trident becomes the defining issue of the impending Labour leadership contest, that will further complicate Labour's already imperilled chance of winning popular support.
The differing strategies — highly public meetings with corporate America and private arm-twisting with Wall Street — both appear to be aimed at winning popular support for higher taxes on the wealthy.
More advisers are in place, but plans to improve public services and build stronger government institutions — essential for winning popular support — have never had the same priority or coherence as war-fighting.
I'm cheered by the fact that both Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are credible candidates who are running -- and winning popular support -- on their vision for America, not on their sex or race.
Mr. Hussein had emptied Abu Ghraib of its occupants in October 2002, in a gesture aimed at winning popular support and possibly at stirring trouble for any American occupation.
