[lbo-talk] Russian Communists admit big loss of support at poorly-attended plenum

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 24 10:55:12 PDT 2004


Yeah. It's not very good politics being the Party if Implacable Opposition when the president has an approval rating of 80% and living standards are rising.

--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:


>
> Well one major problem was that in the last
> election,
> they ran on a platform was that little different
> from Putin's.
> But Putin had the advantage that he is in a position
> where he
> could actually deliver on at least some of his
> promises
> whereas the Communists could not. So it's not too
> surprising
> that their electoral support has been evaporating
> over the last several
> years.
>
>
>
>
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