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Japan’s LDP Heading for Historic Defeat

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Nov 06, 2008
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Would you call for a general election in the middle of what former Fed Chairman Greenspan called a "once-in-a-century credit tsunami" if you had a choice? Wouldn’t you want to postpone the punishment if your internal polling showed you teetering on the brink of an historic defeat? Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso would too.

Unlike John McCain in the US th…

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