Predicted Iraqi Election Outcome (Looks alot like Italy)

ECH1969

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Tue Dec-13-05 02:49 PM
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Predicted Iraqi Election Outcome (Looks alot like Italy)

Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 03:08 PM by ECH1969

So this is how the Iraqi election on Thursday might turn out. Two opinion polls this week suggest when the votes are counted, the results will look something like:

Shiite Islamic Coalition: 30 to 35 percent

Ayad Allawi (secular nationalist slate): 20 percent

Kurdish parties: 16 percent

Sunni Parties: 16 percent

Other small parties will fight for the scraps.

The game to watch: How will the government be formed? The slates will have to create a two-thirds majority to forge a government...but how will they do it?

Watch Allawi try to split the Shiite coalition and break away some of the moderates.

http://onthescene.msnbc.com/baghdad/2005/12/predicted_elect.html

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The_Casual_Observer

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Tue Dec-13-05 02:59 PM
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1. Ayad Allawi "The new Saddam"

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ECH1969

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:02 PM
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3. With this many parties

I can't see how anything could get done.

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ECH1969

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:30 PM
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4. There is no great choice for Iraqis

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moondust

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Tue Dec-13-05 04:02 PM
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5. "KKKarl's Boy"

I wonder how many U.S. tax dollars have been funneled into Allawi's campaign? And how difficult a race has it been for KKKarl, the "man behind the curtain"?

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ECH1969

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:00 PM
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2. Why is it I am thinking that this many parties

Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 03:04 PM by ECH1969

it will be a total stalemate.

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