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December 12, 2005
IRAQ: The Voting Has Begun!
Topics: Iraq
The voting in Iraq has begun, and there is no better place to go to than Omar at Iraq the Model, for a real perspective of this important and historic event. Omar has interesting details that signal an expected 68% turnout.
(...) Voting in Iraq's second parliamentary elections has begun this morning; this coincides with the deadline for all campaigning activities by all lists and parties who are required now to enter "electoral silence". The first votes are coming from army bases, detention centers and hospitals.For a typical less enthusiastic version of the begining of the Parliamentary elections in Iraq, there's no better place to go than - none other than the Washington Post, of course!(...) Tomorrow Tuesday, voting will start for Iraqis outside Iraq in 521 stations in 108 voting centers hosted in 38 cities in 15 countries and on Thursday 7,000 candidates will compete in the nationwide elections, ballots will be cast in 6,200 centers totaling 32,000 stations overseen by nearly a hundred thousand monitors.
While the post does mention a few tidbits about the election, they manage to combine the fact of the elections with so much negativity, that one would think that this was just another day in Iraq, and that the sky is most definately - falling.
In a much related post, Captain Ed writes that a new poll by ABC/Time shows that the Iraqi polling numbers tossed around by Democrats for the past month in defense of their cut-and-run "strategy" were bald-faced lies.
The Oxford study underwritten by the network and news magazine determined that not only has Iraqi optimism increased dramatically throughout 2005, more than half of those polled believe that the US should stay in Iraq until Iraqi security services have been fully trained...
And today's voting comes at a time when "surprising levels of optimism prevail in Iraq with living conditions improved, security more a national worry than a local one, and expectations for the future high."
Posted by Richard at December 12, 2005 9:27 AM
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