Statistical Report Purporting to Show Rigged Iranian Election Is FlawedLike most Americans, there are few things I would like to see more than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hateful President, to be voted out of office. Elections in thuggish, authoritarian states like Iran need be treated with the utmost skepticism and scrutiny. I can't say I have any
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But putting the states in alphabetical order is bizarre to say the least.
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1- Does anyone know any info about terror free tomorrow (the organization) what their political leanings are? In a document they released polling Iranians they said a large majority were going to vote for Ahmadinjad.
2- Does anyone have any good analysis as to motives in possibly rigging an election when the candidates could have been not approved? (albeit with some difficulty, but much less so than rigging an entire election) From Juan Cole, to Andrew Sullivan to Masoud Behnoud and other Iranian analysts the starting point seems to be that the election is rigged without any analysis of the circumstances prior.
I think given the anomalies, there is for sure something wrong with the election... but I don't think it's as simple as "o hai goiz, let's make up numbahs" unless someone made a really really really stupid call. Am I giving them too much credit?
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AN's live press conference on AlJazeera, the reporters are kissing his ass... he says that the "disturbances" are being caused by sore grapes and foreign nations.
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My new quote de jour.
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I'm sitting in my grandparents' house in Tehran right now and I'm hearing mini-explosions, there's helicopters flying around, it smells like smoke, and it took fifteen minutes for this website to load because they've slowed down the internet so much here. On top of that they've basically blocked parts of Iran from the international phone network so I can't even call my mother. 80% of the Iranian people did not enthusiastically turn out in order to re-elect someone who has ruined this country both economically and culturally. The Iranian people know that this election was rigged. How could it have been possible for Mousavi to lose Tabriz when he is from Iranian Azerbaijan and Ahmadinejad has abysmal approval ratings amongst Turkic speaking Iranians? On top of that, I voted in this sham election. Do you know that all votes in Iran are cast on paper and that paper needs to be counted by HAND because you have to write in the code and name of the candidate you are voting for? Mousavi only ( ... )
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