Iraq Election Roundup
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:
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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.
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…
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…