Elections coming up

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The results from Zimbabwe will be a real nail-biter too.  Let's see, Mugabe's Party wins, the oppositon candidates get murdered, and Jimmy Carter declares it a free and fair election.

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What do you know, the Commies won in Moldova.  If they work really hard, and collectivize everything in sight, maybe just maybe, Moldova will leap in front of Albania as second poorest country in Europe.

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I would have voted for the Christian Democrats, though with only about 10% of the vote, they wont even be a very loud minority.

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What do you know, the Commies won in Moldova.  If they work really hard, and collectivize everything in sight, maybe just maybe, Moldova will leap in front of Albania as second poorest country in Europe.

They were the ones who had the power.
And BTW; the only funtionf of Moldavia is to make other poor european countreis feel good about themselves.



Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking too.

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Liechtenstein, a country where conservative parties rack up 86.9% of the vote.  Wow!  Gotta love that!

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Liechtenstein, a country where conservative parties rack up 86.9% of the vote.  Wow!  Gotta love that!

I think Liechtenstein's Prince has a net worth greater than the GDP of the entire country. Oh, yeah, and he doesn't live there. What a joke of country.

What's your point?  Bill Gates has  net worth greater than the city of Seattle.  Does that mean that Seattle is a joke of a city? 

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Somaliland?  Your interest in this is a joke, right?

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Somaliland? Your interest in this is a joke, right?

Nope. I consider them to be a prime example of why the Arab League and the UN can be raging hypocrites, among other things. Also, it's nice to see Somalis who have it together and display something other than what we encountered all those years ago.

And I just find it interesting, OK? Hmph.

ILikeVerin can answer for himself.

Fair enough.  Since you take an interest in some out of the way locales, do you know anything about what is currently going on in Krygyzystan?  I can't say that I'm up to speed on the situation, but there seems to have been an election a couple of months ago, and the ruling govt is charged with rigging the vote or something, ala Ukraine. 

DW-TV has been showing scenes of rioting and such, though I haven't seen anything on the US networks about it. 

Just wondering if you know anything about the political situation in that former Soviet Republic.

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Sen. WMS,

Good analysis.

According to DW-TV,  it was a little messier than the popular uprising in Ukraine, though not terribly so, and it appears the the military wasn't eager to put its neck out for the former Pres.  It will be interesting to see how things pan out.

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Somaliland Election countdown...

0 days, HOORAY!

*goes and looks for any sites that might have ...anything...*

Don't keep us in suspense, who won?

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Great!  Where's that English/Somali dictionary when  you need it?

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What are the latest polls in North Rhine-Wesphalia?

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Somaliland Election countdown...

0 days, HOORAY!

*goes and looks for any sites that might have ...anything...*

Don't keep us in suspense, who won?

I haven't been able to find anything yet. If I do, I'll be sure to let you know.

Still haven't found anything...in English. There's a site or two in Somali which appear to be more updated, but nothing I could make out.

Still nothing?

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What are the latest polls in North Rhine-Wesphalia?

These:

Emnid (03/18)
CDU 43%
SPD 35%
Greens 10%
FDP 7%

Infratest-dimap (03/20)
CDU 42%
SPD 35%
Greens 10%
FDP 7%

Were posted awhile back

Hmmm...I was hoping that there might be some more current polls.

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Hmmm...Half the voters could be undecided.  Wow!  Germans voters are even more volatile than those in the US, or maybe interest in the election is currently low.  Considering the economic crisis, interest should be high.


Which one of the polls on the list would be considered the German version of Gallup, or the most trustworthy polling firm?

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Does anyone have any thoughts regardig the upcoming elections in Iran?  It appears the former President Rafsanjani is leading in the polls, though he may not win an outright majority without a runoff.  He is also running on a platform of a non-nuclear Iran--not sure how that will play with the theocrats who pull the strings of government.

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true, I think nearly 1,000 candidates registered for the elections, but the mullahs trimmed it down to 6 candiates that they feel wouldn't rock the boat--at least not too much

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The Shaw was also taking orders from the US.   Jimmy Carter linked continued US military and economic aid to nonlethal forms of crowd dispersal.  Far more Iranian students left the scene of protest crying from  tear gas than from bullet wounds. 


In hindsight, had the Shah followed Napolean's advice and given the crowds  a whiff of grapeshot, rather than Carter's teargas, he may have held on to power.