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Brotherhood Candidate an Underdog as Political Winds Shift in Egypt
(Washington Post) Ernesto Londono - Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, is running an underdog campaign. The group which became the dominant force in parliament early this year has to contend with an uncharismatic candidate and a shift in public opinion. The Brotherhood's political stock is plunging, analysts and ordinary Egyptians say, because its political party has backtracked on promises and accomplished little since a predominantly Islamist cadre of lawmakers was sworn in in January. Morsi's main competitors are former foreign minister Amr Moussa, the Arab League's erstwhile chief whose appeal stems largely from his name recognition and his hard-line stance against Israel, and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former Brotherhood leader who broke away from the group.