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How did Kadima lose four seats in one week?
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Kadima, Likud, Israel NEws 

A Channel 2 election poll revealed on Wednesday that Likud has opened a significant lead over Kadima, which stands at eight seats.

According to the poll, in next month's general election Likud will win 30 seats, as opposed to 22 for Kadima. Labor under Defense Minister Ehud Barak wins 14 seats, as opposed to 16 in last week's poll.

Avigdor Lieberman's far-right party Yisrael Beiteinu has gained unprecedented popularity, and now wins 16 seats. Shas grows stronger too, and wins 11 seats.
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It is yet to be determined to what extent the support for the Arab parties Balad and Ra'am-Ta'al has been influenced by Wednesday's Supreme Court decision to uphold their right to run. So far they win three and two seats respectively.

Another poll showed on Wednesday that Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is favored by the largest proportion of the voters to lead the country in case the violence in Gaza resumes. He wins the support of 34 percent of the people surveyed, as opposed to 17 percent that favor Tzipi Livni.
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  1.   Israeli electorate 06:28  |  MK 22/01/09
  2.   Some good came of `Cast Lead` then 07:52  |  Colin Wright 22/01/09
  3.   War fails to achieve goal 13:47  |  Mark Lincoln 22/01/09
  4.   Gaza as Carnegie Hall 14:35  |  Gideon Reader 22/01/09
  5.   Weird Headline Promises Analysis, But Only News Here 14:45  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 22/01/09
  6.   god forbid - bibi will destroy us 15:03  |  vote kadima or labor 22/01/09
  7.   The Far Right 15:26  |  Pinoy 22/01/09
  8.   Politial storytelling 15:31  |  Arthur Gillman 22/01/09
  9.   Kad./Lab. failed in Gaza. Like Lebanon 2006-big talk-no results. 16:01  |  common sense 22/01/09
  10.   Is there any difference on offer? 16:35  |  abu ismail sami 22/01/09
  11.   The answer is simple 16:42  |  Gee 22/01/09
  12.   Of course 17:15  |  Ofer 22/01/09
  13.   #4 god forbid 17:33  |  Shepherd 22/01/09
  14.   How? We saw how Livni helped Pollard and screwed up at the UN! 18:40  |  martin knopfman 22/01/09
  15.   You mean to say that "it was all 4 nothing" 19:16  |  L & B & O. 22/01/09
  16.   Kadima deservesb zero seats. Israel discovers Kadima is worthless 19:22  |  Chaim 22/01/09
  17.   Time to move 19:41  |  American in Israel 22/01/09
  18.   Bibi, Livni and Barak should form a troika government . 20:35  |  S 22/01/09
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