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maybe then I'll feel like responding to you further.
PS Why the snarkiness? That was not snarky (I also deleted the post though not because you thought it was snarky). I like democracy, that's why and the flavor of your statement is just a patently false one as regards MB and the majority of the Egyptian people.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/military-asserts-power-in-egypt-as-preliminary-election-results-arrive/
The race has been deeply polarizing. Critics of Shafiq, an admirer and longtime friend of Mubarak, see him as an extension of the old regime that millions sought to uproot when they staged a stunning uprising that toppled the man who ruled Egypt for three decades.
Morsi’s opponents, in turn, fear that if he wins, the Brotherhood will take over the nation and turn it into an Islamic state, curbing freedoms and consigning minority Christians and women to second-class citizens.
As final ballot results trickled in and unofficial tallies suggested that Mohamed Morsi had secured approximately 52% of the popular vote, the Brotherhood deployed its harshest language yet against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), promising to bring millions of Egyptians back on to the streets if attempts to rebuild the old regime continued.
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Can Muslim Brotherhood unite Egypt?
By Mohammed Ayoob, Special to CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/30/opinion/ayoob-egypt-elections/index.html
Buying into this simplistic formula, however, would be a total misreading of the far more complex picture. To understand the political reality of Egypt and the strengths and weaknesses of the major political forces operating in the country, one needs to look more closely at all of the electoral results.
First, it is very clear that the Muslim Brotherhood, despite Morsi's emergence as the presidential front-runner, lost almost half its support base between the parliamentary and presidential elections -- from 47% to 25%.
It is true that the well-organized Muslim Brotherhood was able to mobilize its political base in the presidential elections more effectively than its competitors. But the support of a mere quarter of the electorate is nowhere near sufficient for the Brotherhood to govern the country by itself.
The election results also demonstrate that the total Islamist vote is somewhere around 40% of the electorate. That might be overstating its strength. Islamist Abul Fotoh garnered many votes from secular liberals who mistakenly considered him to be the anti-establishment front-runner. Many voted for him to prevent Mubarak-era candidates Amr Mousa and Shafik from winning.
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Offical results will be in on Thursday (though perhaps a day or two later). We need to see what happens with all of the fraud allegations and everything else. Now I am beginning feeling 'snarky'.... Pfft.
Half of you people don't support democracy anyway.
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