Posted on 02/01/2009 4:46:25 PM PST by chessplayer
Voter turnout in Iraq's provincial elections Saturday was the lowest in the nation's short history as a democracy, despite a relative calm across the nation. Only about 7.5 million of more than 14 million registered voters went to the polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Saw the lede - was mildly interested.
Saw the “Miami Herald” - lost interest.
Anything to put s—t on it. The drive-by media at it again.
Hehehehe. Exactly my thoughts.
That’s over half the population. Zero got less votes.
I seem to get a variety of figures on how many eligible Americans voted in the 2006 election, from 53% to 68%. I suspect that the lower number is probably more accurate.
In any case, the number of Americans who voted for the Savior Obama isn’t much different from the number of Iraqis who voted in this last election.
Yes, it’s fewer than Iraq’s first free election. That’s not really surprising, is it?
Still a better turn out than American elections. So stuff it MSM
Yeah; whereas in the USA now, 14 million votes get cast for Democrats, where only 7.5 million registered voters exist.....
Go figgur......
“....Voter turnout in Iraq’s provincial elections Saturday was the lowest in the nation’s short history as a democracy...”
Duh, this is only their second election.
So...do elections in the USA see more than 50% of registered voters cast a ballot?
Yeah, well here in the US voter turnout is always low for presidential elections and often less than 20% for Congressional ones. So are we a disillusioned nation too?
Stuff it, MSM.
Turnout not necessary. Bring in Acorn.
I’m sure the Miami Herald longs for the Good Old Days, when voter turnout was 100%...for Saddam Hussien...
Just wait until The One normalizes relations with Cuba...
Sounds to me like they are getting used to democracy and are getting like America. Let the next guy go vote. I don’t feel like it.
Yeah, maybe disillusionment. Or maybe they’re less worried about the consequences of the other side winning this time, so the urgency isn’t there like before.
More than half voted? How’s that America? How is voter turnout here?
MSM’s distortion of news strikes again!
Looks like little over half of registered voters voted — this is equivalent to our “off-year” elections, this was election of local politicians/leaders, NOT a presidential election.
Here is the historical turnout for US general elections:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
Gee — I guess the US has been a “disillusioned nation” by the MSM’s criteria, for a long time. In off-year elections, only 37% of the voters turn out, and in most presidential elections the turnout is little over 50%.
These are provincial elections.....when’s the last time you had a 53% turnout for US off-yeat elections? Never?
That’s a really good point.
Excellent point. Stinking msm does it again.
"Interviews suggest that the low voter turnout is an indication of Iraqi disenchantment with a democracy that, so far, has brought them very little."
Interviews? How many interviews? And of whom? A handful of Sunnis sitting at a sidewalk cafe drinking tea and bitching about the government? And who is it that's interpreting the meaning of these interviews? A Bush-hating American journalist? An America-hating Arab journalist? An America-hating European journalist? A lefty NGO type?
Here, almost everyone has some kind of wheels to get to the polls. There, especially in rural areas, it's probably an animal cart or shank's mare.
For those of you in Rio Linda, shank's mare means your own two legs.
Leni
A year from now, many Obama voters will feel the same way.
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I think the ‘glow’ will wear off long before then.
Also believe that it will take a REAL ‘Second Coming’ to get a lot of them out to vote anytime soon. Once they realize they have been ‘had’, they will never ‘trust’ the system or a ‘false prophet’ again.
I heard they had to extend the hours because of the turn-out.
I understand the Kurdish provinces are having their elections later, so maybe that is also factoring into the 14 million registered voter figure.
I love it how these down and out liberals take freedom for granted. Even after thousands of Americans sacrificed their blood for it, one of the greatest gifts any human can give to others: Freedom.
Maybe FADEL would like to be subjected to the tender mercies of Sadaam Hussein's style of community action in relation to women like her, which would now be the status quo in an Iraq without its new found freedom?
To be bliunt, Fadel is dumber than dirt, as are all who think like her.
GUILTY!!!
and I doubt there were any fraudulent voters there - from all appearances, the Iraqi election system is much improved over ours
utterly disgusting and over-the-top anti U.S. and over the top pessimistic piece
They just never stop. Now that GW is safely stowed in Texas, they still have to make their digs. They should be thanking him for their safety for 7 years.
“Once they realize they have been ‘had’, they will never ‘trust’ the system or a ‘false prophet’ again.”
Worse still, they(both blacks, browns, whites), with help of the media, will blame Bush, Republicans and whites in general for Obama’s failures. And act accordingly...
Last thing they will ever do is take responsiblity for themselves.
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