Alex, not following your reasoning here. What relevance do these numbers have to the issue?

Some people try to view other countries through red, white and blue goggles, for example: did the US expect to be greeted with ‘flowers’ in Baghdad?

Ahmadinejad and Mousavi acquiesce to Khamenei not Rafsanjani as some may wish it to be. To the Iranian people – who are well aware of Rafsanjani’s intrigues – this is the last throw of the dice for a corrupt Saudi and US backed lapdog and it has all gone wrong.

Notwithstanding the claim that this was the 'only scientific' opinion poll done before the election, I frequently heard another figure that Moussavi was leading by something like 60:35.

How the latter figure was obtained I simply do not know. However, I can see a major flaw in the methodology behind Mr Doherty's poll. It was done over the telephone. In an authoritarian country. Mmm…nobody else see a potential problem here?

Here's another possible interpretation of the figures. All of those who were going to vote for the incumbent were perfectly happy to admit to it over a non-secure, possibly monitored telephone line. Most of those who supported the opposition candidate were not, for what I think are perfectly understandable reasons. You wouldn't want to take part in a poll, then find yourself being tied to one at dawn.

(OK, that's probably extreme. I mean it's not like Iran is as repressive a regime as some of our wonderful 'friends' around the world. But still you'd have to have the possibility of retribution in the back of your mind.)

"What was left for america to do was install maleable stooges inside the thrirld world countries. escpeally those types who are unelctable and have no mass base of their own– in other words who are not elelctable democratically but installed from above through media and other manipulations.
this manmohan singh in india fulffiled that criteria of being unliked and unelctable insignificant person who was willing to act on arder of his american masters -if they had asked him to turn communist he would have done that.it isa sad refletion on india that since 1986 we have has only weaklings as our prime minsiters and fincnace minsiters not to speak of non mentionable defence misnters who made sure that indians nuclear and missle programme got stuck at 1986."

this manmohan sihngh has not been eelcted by indian people-but as he is a certified west asttoge you donot hear about that.

Why the west made no noise about unelected person being isntalled as PM of india-
because that man-bastard manmohan singh is a west's stooge and he has been installed on behalf of the west on Indian public. this bastard did not win elelction nor he did any electioneering.

THE INDIAN PUBLIC HAS BEEN BOOTING OUT THE GOVTS. AFTER GOVTS. AS TERM EXPIRES BECAUSE INDIAN PUBLIC DOES NOT WANT SO CALLED LIBERALIZATION AND PIRATE CAPITALIST SUYTEM BUT THE POLITICANS INT EH PAY PACKET OF BUSIENSS MEN AND MEDIA BEING PIMPS OF CAPITAL HAVE BEEN NULLYIFYING TH ELECTION RESULT FOR LAST 15 YEARS. THIS SYSTEM WAS BROUGHT TO INDIA BY THE AMERICAN AGENT MANOHANS SINGH WHO BRIBED THE MPS TO KEEP THE NEAO LIBERAL AGENDA OF HIS UNCLELCTABLE GOVT. BOth IN 1993 and 2008. such people swear a lot by democracy aswell.!!