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Mr. Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev have stepped up anti-Western rhetoric—long a vote-winner for them—and are both scheduled to speak at a United Russia congress Sunday.

Putin's Party Faces Losses in Elections Alan Cullison 2011

UNCTAD's proposed solution is that German wages should now rise rapidly, which sounds like a bit of a vote-winner.

The World Isn't Up to Global Coordination Paul Hannon 2011

While the NDP's support for cap and trade may have helped it push the Green Party to its lowest share of the popular vote since the 2000 federal election, as well as win over environmentally-conscious Liberal Party and Bloc Quebecois supporters, does this mean cap and trade was a net vote-winner for the NDP?

Alykhan Velshi: Let Them Eat Carbon Alykhan Velshi 2011

True Finns leader Timo Soini, the biggest individual vote-winner in the election, suggested Monday that Finland should opt out of future bailout packages, decisions that require unanimity in the 17-member eurozone.

Finland election could derail bailouts in Europe 2011

While the NDP's support for cap and trade may have helped it push the Green Party to its lowest share of the popular vote since the 2000 federal election, as well as win over environmentally-conscious Liberal Party and Bloc Quebecois supporters, does this mean cap and trade was a net vote-winner for the NDP?

Alykhan Velshi: Let Them Eat Carbon Alykhan Velshi 2011

They all hoped Brown would be a vote-winner like Blair.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

History and ethnicity aside, the visible precariousness of the Iranian regime hardly makes an orientation in that direction a big vote-winner for Iraq's election-minded politicians.

Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy Bartle Bull 2010

History and ethnicity aside, the visible precariousness of the Iranian regime hardly makes an orientation in that direction a big vote-winner for Iraq's election-minded politicians.

Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy Bartle Bull 2010

It was a vote-winner for the Tories in the 1980s and Labour was so transfixed by right-to-buy that no Labour politician of the Blair-Brown-Mandelson era ever dared challenge this holy cow.

Can David Cameron match Harold Macmillan's achievement in house-building? 2010

When Margaret Thatcher gave council house tenants the right to buy their own homes in 1980, the move was hailed as both a vote-winner and a giant step towards the "property-owning democracy" that was the declared goal of her government.

Angry and insecure – the renting Britons with no hope of buying a home 2010