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Why Italy's Obama Lost

Veltroni’s personality wasn't enough to overcome frustration with left

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 16, 2008 4:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – An Italian politician who aggressively modeled his campaign on Barack Obama’s fell to once-and-future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi this week—and the shallowness of Walter Veltroni’s message is to blame, Dominic Standish argues in Spiked. He appropriated the slogan “Yes we can”... Read full story »

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