Russian Presidential "Election" - March 2, 2008

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Atleast it won't be a "won in advance" election!

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Atleast it won't be a "won in advance" election!

Yes it is. The choices are Putin Clone v1 (Medvedev) and Putin Clone v2 (Ivanov).

I know that, I meant it won't be a 1-round election.

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Oh, what an unpredictable surprise.

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Why do Russians like this guy? Time magazine made him Person of the year and said he was LOVED in Russia. He might be liked or even loved but I think there will be an upset.

Lol at your cluelessness on Russia.

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This is Putin's Russia, not US elections. As much as Americans love to think the American system is followed the world over, it's not.

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Not in current day Russia. At least not in elections

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Oh the surprise:

Dmitry Medvedev 79%
Gennady Zyuganov 9%
Vladimir Zhirinovsky 9%
Mikhail Kasyanov 2%
 

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Second Round:

Dmitry Medvedev: 51%
Sergei Ivanov: 49%

So, the next President of Russia will either be Putin's current deputy prime minister... or Putin's current deputy prime minister (the other one).

You do need real complex democratic process don't you?

Democratic? Lol.

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Second Round:

Dmitry Medvedev: 51%
Sergei Ivanov: 49%

So, the next President of Russia will either be Putin's current deputy prime minister... or Putin's current deputy prime minister (the other one).

You do need real complex democratic process don't you?

Democratic? Lol.

Bush junior, Clinton wife?
Democracy exists? Can you tell me where please.

It does, but not in Russia currently.

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Good, Medvedev certainly beats Putin in terms of % vote then.

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OMG!

Medvedev 69%
Zyuganov 17%
Zhirinovsky 14%

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This is very bad for United Russia? Only 69% supporting its candidate?

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He went up to 84% after that, but now he has collapsed to 69%.

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OK, they took out the 69% poll... Weird.

Now

Medvedev 78
Zyuganov 11
Zhirinovsky 9

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And since the middle word spells "protokolov", I would assume it's polling stations reported.

I'd love to learn Russian.

I assume center-left is Zhirinovsky and center-right is the communist. Who's the guy on the far left?

Here's the Economist's profile of Medvedev. http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789035

Andrey Bogdanov, candidate of the "Democratic Party" which is officially liberal but looks like another of the Kremlin-created parties to me.