CNN is reporting that with 92% of the vote counted, Ahmadinejad has 68% of the vote compared to Mousavi’s 28%. That seems unlikely, but Iran isn’t known for corrupted vote counting in their elections. You can follow events at Talking Points Memo because I’m going out for the evening.
If you are interested for some reason, you can follow me at Twitter now. I caved in. It’s BooMan23, same as my Daily Kos user name.
are they using an electronic voting system where they can flip votes? [hah. hah] earlier report had the reverse %, 68% for Mousavi.
All the websites including CNN now say it was 20% of the vote.
As long as you can write better than Chuck Grassley, I’ll live with it.
Crap! I can’t believe it.
Why? What did you expect? Did you watch the debate, which Ahmedinejad won hands down? From an Iranian point of view it never made sense to have Moussavi win, since it would have allowed the US to declare a soft power victory. After 50 years of tribulations with the US why would Iran do that?
what a load of crap!
oops I forgot: you already declared this soft power victory earlier this week, perhaps caught in a fit of irrational Obamaesque exuberation …
… other than that the snippiness your response speaks for itself and says: Bingo!
so, you automatically believe these results. No skepticism whatsoever. Because the Iranian interest was so firmly for the idiot.
What’s there to be sceptical about?
Those exit polls didn’t prevent the results from being certified in 2004 in the US did they? In 2000 a president was selected in accordance with the US constitution, no?
Scepticism?
Who do you pretend to be? Bambi?