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Article: Prime Minister Paul Martin was born into Liberal Party politics
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- January 20, 2006
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BETH DUFF-BROWN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-20-2006
Dateline: TORONTO
An old friend of Paul Martin once remarked that the motivation that drives the premier is that he would never want to repeat the political legacy of his father: running and losing, over and over.
"That is absolutely his worst nightmare," the unnamed friend is quoted as saying in his biography, "Paul Martin, The Power of Ambition," by John Gray.
His worst nightmare may just lay ahead. Martin's Liberal Party appears poised to fall to the Conservatives for the first time in 13 years, according to polls, ending his last 18-month term as prime minister and putting his leadership of the party into doubt.
Martin's ...