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Cardinal Peter of Ghana is not "running" for pope, but he clearly has supporters who think enough of him that they plastered posters with pictures of him around Rome. "vote Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson at the conclave" was written in both on the posters above a photograph of the cardinal, a favourite of book makers. An old Roman saying warns about campaigning, even indiscretely to become a pope or even trying to predict the outcome of the conclave. It goes " He who enters a conclave as a pope, exits as a cardinal.