Aljazeera.Net - Abbas wins election
Democracy in action... I guess we're supposed to thank Israel for letting people get to the elections. Bush is 'heartened'; Sharon wants a date ASAP; Anon is thrilled; even Vladimir Putin is chiming in with words of hope.
Sarcasm aside, I'm linking to two articles relating to this because I noticed a discrepency in aljazeera's reporting of the total figures and most of the others I'd seen. Aljazeera's site says he won 95% of the votes, while other sites place the percentage in the range of 61 to about 63.
Aljazeera.Net - Abbas wins election
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OutLookIndia.com-Abbas wins Palestinian election: Official results ...because, well, why not use Indian media?
Sarcasm aside, I'm linking to two articles relating to this because I noticed a discrepency in aljazeera's reporting of the total figures and most of the others I'd seen. Aljazeera's site says he won 95% of the votes, while other sites place the percentage in the range of 61 to about 63.
Aljazeera.Net - Abbas wins election
vs
OutLookIndia.com-Abbas wins Palestinian election: Official results ...because, well, why not use Indian media?
posted by smokey spice at 1:57 PM
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Not really, Al-Jazeera just says that after 95% of votes being counted, it's clear that other candidates can't steal the election from Abbas. In other words at this point of counting he has enough votes to declare himself the winner
"Fatah candidate Mahmud Abbas has won the Palestinian presidential elections with 95% of the votes counted."
Thanks for the correction Purgator. I'm glad I was wrong.
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