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It's interesting to see the difference in the way media covers this election elsewhere. YouTube has a clip from Russia Today. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzVE0AiH5G0 (or click my sig.)
The RT clip opens with the claimed Ahmadinejad win, voter turnout and input from (Iranian?) election analysts explaining the result. But before the clip is finished, it also visits the controversy over the results and the protests.
My point in posting this boils down to the desire to get people to look at over perspectives rather than just those that tell them what they want to hear. That was also the motivation for the link to Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight.com in my immediately previous letter concerning the graphs and "statistical analysis" that's so quickly make the rounds on various US blogs and web sites.
Short version: Step back, look anew, and think again.
