Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Lebanese Elections II

A few observations from the recent Lebanese parliamentary elections:

1. Unfortunately for those who like to put things and groups into easy 'buckets' (e.g. pro-western, pro-Syrian, Hezbollah-led, etc.), a chart which shows that the reality is much more complex than most of the facile depictions in the 'western' press...
2. How is it that there were "sweeps" in 23 of the 26 electoral districts??
3. The losers (M8 - 54.8%) actually got more total votes than the winners (M14 - 45.2%) per Aah, that damn popular vote.

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