Poll: Likud Hardliners Leading the Pack

[oberliner]

JERUSALEM (AP) - If elections were held today the hardline Likud party would be the overwhelming victor, a new poll showed Friday, a sign of Israelis' deep dissatisfaction with their leaders.

The poll in the Maariv newspaper showed the Likud winning 35 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament, easily defeating Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ruling Kadima party.

The centrist Kadima would see its power drop more than 50 percent to a meager 13 seats in the theoretical election, and the dovish Labor Party would also get 13 seats, the poll showed. The next national elections are slated to be held only in 2010.

The survey was carried out by the TNS Teleseker polling company. Pollsters surveyed 460 people, and the margin of error was 4.5 percentage points.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6502322,00.html

[msmcghee]

1. It looks like Hamas has succeeded . .

. . in its goals to achieve a perpetual state of war with Israel in order to eventually get the Jews to go live someplace else. We'll now get to see how successful that part of their plan will be.

[Tom Joad]

2. Hamas runs the Likud Party? Didn't know that.