Election Optimism

Freshly liberated Iraqis head to the polls in nine days. As it the election year custom in our nation, a new one is trying to start itself in Iraq.
Election polling.

An overwhelming majority of Iraqis continue to say they intend to vote on Jan. 30 even as insurgents press attacks aimed at rendering the elections a failure, according to a new public opinion survey.

The poll, conducted in late December and early January for the International Republican Institute, found 80 percent of respondents saying they were likely to vote, a rate that has held roughly steady for months.

First Afghanistan, next Iraq.

"I think the real story of this election is what's gone on beneath the radar," the [anonymous] official said. "They may not know what they're voting for. But I think they recognize it's something called democracy."

I would add voting for freedom and standing up against oppression to the statement.

Freedom on the March Posted by AlexC at January 21, 2005 1:06 PM