Past Polls
- 11/ 5/2009 What current movie title best sums up the state of the Republican Party right now?
- 11/ 3/2009 What 2009 election outcome will have the greatest long term implication?
- 11/ 1/2009 What is the significance of this week's regional elections?
- 10/29/2009 In honor of Halloween, we're calling out the scariest Democrats. Who scares you the most?
- 10/12/2009 How should the Obama administration handle Fox News?
- 10/ 8/2009 What do you think about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize?
- 10/ 7/2009 What impact do you think Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir Going Rogue will have when it comes out this November?
- 10/ 4/2009 President Obama is reportedly 'angry' at Gen. McChrystal for publicly second guessing him on Afghanistan strategy. What do you think about their clash?
- 10/ 1/2009 What do you think about Roman Polanski’s arrest and its aftermath?
- 9/27/2009 US-Iran talks will take place in Geneva this week. What should President Obama focus on during the negotiations?
- 9/22/2009 Which story do you hope will get the most attention at the G-20 conference this year?
- 9/20/2009 What do you think of President Obama's five back-to-back Sunday morning major-network interviews and his Letterman appearance?
- 9/16/2009 How do you feel about President Carter's remarks about racism directed at Obama?
- 9/13/2009 The ongoing media attention on Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst is...
- 9/ 9/2009 What did you think of President Obama's healthcare speech to Congress?
- 9/ 7/2009 Why did so many parents across America not want President Obama to address the nation's schoolchildren?
- 9/ 1/2009 What should President Obama emphasize in his speech to Congress on healthcare?
- 8/27/2009 How will the loss of Sen. Ted Kennedy affect healthcare reform?
- 8/23/2009 On which issue has the mainstream media done the worst job?
- 8/17/2009 Should progressives support a healthcare bill without a public option?
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Wow, what a bunch of cynics! Continuing protests gets just 9 percent and "Ahmadinejad government falls" isn't even a choice?
Posted by lisaaug at 06/15/2009
Whoa dude......are we just supposed to get in line and assume that the election was rigged?! I'm not saying it wasn't, but I am saying it's perhaps a bit premature to state it as a "fact".
Furthermore, I'd propose that the Occam's Razor approach might be to assume that the CIA was heavily involved in an attempt to throw the election every bit as much as the Revolutionary Guard or some such entity.
But nice job of following blindly Nation mag.
Props.
Posted by b_kool_66 at 06/15/2009
Thanks for the optimistic option!
Posted by lisaaug at 06/16/2009
Thanks for radically rewording the question, Nation mag --much better.
Seriously.
:-)
P.S. One minor suggestion. Option 1) might be rephrased as "Continuing protests of an ostensibly rigged election".
In the final analysis, the U.S. all too frequently ends up looking preposterously hypocritical when we go histrionic about "other people's elections" while ignoring our own deeply flawed democracy --not to mention the fact that our own CIA has a rich 60+ year legacy of payoffs and assorted more insidious tactics in an attempt to control other country's behavior vis-a-vis our own "vested interests".
Let's not forget that important point, please.
And let's not pretend that we're all better now.
Posted by b_kool_66 at 06/16/2009
Continuing protests, a window dressing investigation...then, a sever government crackdown. More people will be wounded and killed. It may actually come down to a violent overthrow of the government, but that will depend on which side the Iranian Army takes.
Posted by rasputin195 at 06/16/2009
I would wager the Obama administration actually would prefer Ahmadinejad. A peaceful, democratic revolution in Iran would have all kinds of unpredictable consequences in the Middle East. America and Israel would have to find another bogeyman.
Posted by GuyCybershy at 06/16/2009
As far as I know, Iran did not intervene in the "fixed" or at least disputed 2000 election in the United States, and I think that the United States should reciprocate by not intervening in the 2009 election in Iran. Doesn't that seem reasonable?
Posted by jrm22437 at 06/19/2009
Hey, jrm22437. I have been thinking the exact same thing since all of this mess in Iran started.
Posted by carlinatlanta at 06/21/2009
I agree wholeheartedly with jrm, I am amazed that the talking heads and warmongering politicians feel the need to weigh in on another countries election. It seems if our boys aren't the winners then the process is flawed i.e. Hezbollah, Hugo Chavez etc. There was no mention in the MSM of the Canadian Government crackdown in Toronto of protesters maced and beaten while protesting the US runup to destroy Iraq.
Posted by poonchkie at 06/22/2009