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...that Senator John S. McCain has clinched the Republican nomination, he must overcome an identity crisis. Should he change his history of bipartisan voting to strengthen his Republican kinship ties? Or will his attempts to woo the right-wingers of his party alienate Independents? McCain’s recent flip-flop on torture suggests that he is trying to attract the right-wing Republican vote. That seems to explain why McCain, one of the nation’s staunchest opponents of torture, voted not to pass an anti-torture bill.This came as a surprise for those who know of McCain?...
...Reformist voters were more resigned. At the Hosseiniye Ershad Mosque in North Tehran, Aliyeh Mostofovi, 50, said she had come to vote although she thought the results wouldn't be to her liking. "Western countries always say we're forced to vote. I've come to show that we vote because we want to," she said...
...constitutional court must now vote whether to dismiss or hear the prosecutor's bid to ban the ruling party. In the event of the latter, the AKP has one month to submit a defense and an ensuing case could take several months, losing Turkey much credibility abroad. "The constitutional court should reject the closure demand," wrote Milliyet commentator Hasan Cemal. "Otherwise, Turkey will lose." European governments and the U.S. have criticized...
...there is a lesson to be drawn from this for the AKP, it is that Turkey's political balance is delicate and to enact change requires coalition-builders, not bulldozers - even with 47% of the vote. Erdogan might learn to rein in his famous temper and accomodate critics. For instance, he abandoned a much-needed reform to overhaul the constitution, a leftover from a 1980 military coup, in favor of a one-off amendment to lift the ban on headscarves in universities. "If Erdogan stuck to his original steps, like joining Europe and integrating with the global economy, he wouldn...
...Atefeh Shams, 26, said her husband had admonished her that if she voted she was a traitor to herself and her people. But she added, "My friend finally convinced me that it was important that we make a decision, even if it's between bad and worse." Her friend Samira Parto, 27, chimed in, "It's our poor lives that are at stake here, not the lives of those people outside Iran who encourage us not to vote. We don't want internal war, we don't want an invasion, we don't want a revolution. We just want...