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...immediate cause of the violence is what international and local observers are calling a blatant attempt by President Mwai Kibaki, head of the Party of National Unity, to rig the Dec. 27 general election. With a high turnout, the vote was initially hailed as a success, but the mood soured as the counting went on. When opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement jumped to a lead of nearly 1 million votes, results were delayed from several of Kibaki's strongholds. When the final result was announced, Kibaki, 76, had squeaked through with a victory of just...
What a nice guy! Mitt Romney is all humble and reasonable, a human goose-down comforter lulling the Iowans who have come to hear him at a classic heartland café in downtown Newton on a Saturday morning. "I don't think anybody votes for yesterday," he says, streaming balm. "We vote for tomorrow. Elections are about the future." Romney's version of the future sounds as if he's pickpocketed the polling data used by Democrats roaming the cornfields, with an occasional Republican nod to lower taxes and a strong defense. He talks about the need for an alternative...
...know, they can go run their campaigns and we'll run ours," said Joe Trippi, a senior adviser to the Edwards campaign. "We're taking this thing very seriously and that people of Iowa are going to know how hard we're going to fight for every vote and what we think is at stake here and what the difference in this campaign is: that we're going to take on corporate greed for them and she's taking their money ..." and here Trippi trails off and raises his eyebrows...
Post-election violence has now killed at least 250 and forced some 70,000 people to flee their homes in the days since the vote, which has now been recognized by the European Union and the United States as seriously flawed. His opponent, Raila Odinga, has refused to recognize the results; he has the support of the Luo tribe, which makes up about 13% of the country, as well as several smaller tribes. There are now fears that Kenya, a famous tourist destination with a booming economy, is teetering on almost total collapse, and the possibility of genocidal war between...
...transparency in the processing and tallying of presidential results, which raises concerns about the accuracy of the final results." Perhaps even more damaging, five members of Kenya's Electoral Commission - which Kibaki had packed with loyalists in the last year - have come forward to demand an inquiry into the vote...