Iraq Election Roundup

James Joyner · Sunday, January 30, 2005 · 2 Comments

I’ve been out an about today and haven’t seen any television coverage of the Iraq election returns. From what I can garner from the major print media, though, turnout exceeded every reasonable expectation. That doesn’t mean that “democracy” is Iraq is necessarily a resounding success or that the insurgency is going to evaporate overnight. Still, so far so good.

Check out these New York Times headlines:

Violence Fails to Spoil a Party Atmosphere on Baghdad’s Streets

Basra: Early Calm, Then a Festive Stream of Voters

Mosul: Many Votes and Glitches for the Kurds

Najaf: Good Turnout in Shiites’ Holiest City

Bush Hails Iraq Vote as ‘a Resounding Success’

The Vote, and Democracy Itself, Leave Anxious Iraqis Divided

Amazing.

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James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

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PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science says:

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 16:39

Blogospheric Round-Up: Elections in Iraq
A trip around the Blogosphere (and yes, with a heavy dose of my blogroll, although not exclusively):

From on the ground, Omar at Iraq the Model has post called “The People have won.” The money quote:I walked forward to my station, cast my vote an…

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Sortapundit says:

Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 17:29

Election Day Round-Up
There’s been a lot of pooh-poohing (I love that expression) of the Iraqi elections around the blogosphere today – unsurprisingly, much of it has come from that vocal, shrill portion of the left that seems to hate civilisation so much.

Matt Yglesia…

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