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Hey :) Hope you you're doing well, beautiful. I don't know that Ive ever told you, but I always enjoy your posts- the ones in which you reflect on your life, and being in Cairo. Or times past. So thanks for sharing. Really. One of your recent posts got me thinkin... Question for ya- do you believe the stats about how many voted for Shafiq? I know some Egyptians think its just impossible... or do you feel that is/could be the reality?

thank you, first off.  really. 

and well, i think that i try to take a few things into account, and they are a bit contradictory. 

one, is that well only 46 percent of egyptians voted in the preliminary elections.  and im not sure what that speaks toward, but it does say something, in my mind, significant about what egyptians think of these presidential elections. 

like this was the first time in their life they could vote for the leader of their country, and the majority decided that wasn't worth their time. 

i have a few friends who didnt vote.  and when i asked them why, most of them said that they didnt like any of the candidates.  they were either foloul or ikhwan and well, fuck that.  these are kids who are pro-revolution, but anti-elections, and that to me is an interesting dichotomy. 

other friends of mine say that the folks who they talk to who didnt vote said that they didnt really care.  they didnt want to have to participate in the government, and they feel like the government should be able to take care of itself.  like, this is not really their business...

which i admit having been born and raised in a country that values its electoral traditions sort of struck me as -- what????  but then the majority of people in the states dont vote either, and definitely not in the primaries. 

on the other hand these elections are historic in a way that they just arent in the states, so that low turnout still kind of surprises me. 

so that complicates what i said earlier about 1/4 of the people voting basically against the revolution.  since the majority didnt vote at all.

2. yeah, i do think there was some voter fraud.  i mean we have reports coming out about police officers being allowed to vote even though that goes against the law.  (and for those not following closely, we assume that those votes would have gone to shafiq, because well, he's the law and order guy)

3. so looking at those stats and critiques it makes shafiq's win nebulous.  but on the other hand, i do think that there is something to be said for the fact that egyptians let him on the ballot in the first place.  and that the majority of egyptians seem to be okay (not rioting in the streets) with the fact that he *may* be the new president.  yes there are demos, but not too too large...yet.  and really the emerged in reaction to the decision by the judges over mubarak and his entourage, not over shafiq. 

so i guess what i am saying is that there seems to be a large amount of egyptians who are okay with the idea that 1/4 of egyptians voted against the revolution.  they are willing to believe that.  and that says something, although i am not sure what quite yet, about egyptians relationship with their own revolution. 

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Wow, that article you posted about Public Allies is truly mind-boggling... I'm just staring at it like, "annnd your point issss?" Their use of the words militant and radical is disgraceful :/

They're just hate/fear mongers.

Like, omg - just because Obama is black doesn't mean he's trying to militarize every minority to take over the country...

i'm already trying to do that on my own, thank-you-very-much