Monday, November 2, 2009

Karzai Formally Declared Winner of 2009 Election


Azizullah Lodin, the very person whose continued leadership of the Election Commission drove Abdullah Abdullah from the election run-off, formally declared Hamid Karzai the winner of the Afghan presidential elections. David Axelrod, Obama's faithful spinmeister, downplayed Abdullah's withdrawal by suggesting that polling showed Karzai way up anyway. They're going to have to do better than that, but it's only the morning after...
As for the many Afghans who did in fact vote for Karzai the first time, we'll see if this is like the 2004 American election, where voters woke up a month later to realize they had made a terrible mistake. We'll see you all at the polls in 2014...

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