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iwillfearnoevil:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on January 29, 2005, 11:41:23 pm ---That's nuts.
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iwillfearnoevil:
--- Quote from: 1hookedspacecadet on January 29, 2005, 11:51:44 pm ---Certainly alot more choices than the last election...
I am very happy those people have that murderous SOB and his horrific offspring out of the way.
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Tailgunner:
CNN is currently reporting 70% of Iraqis voted today.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: Tailgunner on January 30, 2005, 02:19:43 pm ---CNN is currently reporting 70% of Iraqis voted today.
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This number is not based on any sort of scientific poll, and I'm ashamed that our media keeps batting it around as if it were fact.
From an Iraqi, watching Iraqi television:
"The journalists asked the excecutive director: how did you know that the percentage of the voters in iraq is 72% like you announced? He answered: "well, the head of every voting center estimated that basing on the length of the line of the voters as he saw it!"
If we're to believe this number is correct, then we'd have to believe that the exit polls here for the last election were correct.
KERRY WON!!!
mrC
RayB:
Yeah, always be skeptical of the media. Especially when they tend to all get their information from the same sources (Reuters, AP, etc). It's not hard for the government to "seed" whatever news suits them best. (ie: 70% turn out rate). This rate surprised me too.