Sunday, June 21, 2009

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: "Worst. Damage Control. Ever.
by Nate Silver @ 10:31 PM
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I've generally tended to take the position that while the people running Iran are a bunch of reactionary thugs, they're at least a fairly intelligent bunch of reactionary thugs.

After this revelation on Iranian Press TV, however, I'm not so certain:

...............................More people 'voted' than were eligible to vote -- in a lot of places. The interior ministry admits to 50 such instances out of the 300+ jurisdictions in which Iran tallied results. That is widespread, prime facie and admitted-to evidence of fraud, and I don't see how the Guardian Council expects people to buy the argument that whatever caused the tub to overflow in those 50 cities was not also tainting the results throughout the rest of the country. ............
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