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Robb

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3. Shafiq and Mursi were a percentage point apart.

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon May 28, 2012, 08:58 PM

May 2012

Three points up on the 3rd-place candidate. It's Muslim Brotherhood vs. old guard.

Precisely the outcome predicted by the most cynical of us. There is no unifying alternative candidate for Egyptians.

Not good.

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Egypt protesters torch candidate's headquarters [View all] oberliner May 2012 OP

Wondered when the Egyptian people would realize it was more of the same..... MindMover May 2012 #1

Terrible development for any nascent democratic movement. Violence towards candidates? Bad news nt riderinthestorm May 2012 #2

Shafiq and Mursi were a percentage point apart. Robb May 2012 #3

Meet the new boss Lawlbringer May 2012 #4

Exactly! HERVEPA May 2012 #5

Who is the new boss? oberliner May 2012 #7

I was being snarky. Lawlbringer May 2012 #8

I take your point oberliner May 2012 #10

So they are electoral sore losers? David__77 May 2012 #6

Or it was rigged. Can you see a people who just went through hell EFerrari May 2012 #9

President Carter (and others) monitored the elections oberliner May 2012 #11

Yes, I saw him there. He very carefully did not say the elections were clean. n/t EFerrari May 2012 #12

He doesn't appear to think it was rigged though oberliner May 2012 #13

President Carter is a brilliant man. He knows he was there at the will EFerrari May 2012 #14