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Originally posted by haytrain[..]

Each state has a primary, that only counts the votes from that particular state. Primaries are spread out over several months (i think the first ones were back in February?). When a candidate wins a particular state, they get delegate votes from that state. You need a certain amount of delegate votes to formally win the nomination from the party, so Obama and Clinton are battling it out for delegates still. McCain already got the amount needed on the Republican side, so he'll be the Republican candidate. Make sense?

Originally posted by Ali709http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7376741.stm

And I quote Tyler Durden here: "DO NOT Fuck with us!" ;) Please guys...vote for Obama, he seems more friendly towards Iran...I don't want a war ;(

Originally posted by drewhigginsI'm not sure whether it was for the US or Australian election, but was it true that a whole bunch of voting boxes were found later on with the votes for the opposition, in other words the vote had been rigged, and it was tried to be covered up?

Originally posted by Marty[..]


Well this happenned in the Us ! Last election with the Florida Boxes, they found the boxers later on. And because of that mistake, George W Bush was named president and not All Gore.

I think this is the story but Im not to sure so don't take any garantue

Originally posted by Ali709
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7410367.stm

What the fuck was that soldier smoking?! He's lucky he is alive

Originally posted by Ali709
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7410367.stm

What the fuck was that soldier smoking?! He's lucky he is alive

Originally posted by Ali709
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7410367.stm

What the fuck was that soldier smoking?! He's lucky he is alive

Originally posted by www.cnn.comMyanmar junta extends Suu Kyi house arrest

(CNN) -- Myanmar's military rulers have extended the five-year detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by another 12 months, beating Tuesday's deadline by hours.
A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Suu Kyi's detention was officially extended by a year on Tuesday afternoon.
The 63-year-old was told of her continued imprisonment by officials from the Home Ministry who entered her home prior to the announcement, the official told AP.
The junta has confined Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi in her home for 12 of the last 18 years. Her latest house arrest began in 2003 and has been renewed annually for the last five years.
According to the law in Myanmar, the regime could not add another year to her sentence unless it brought new charges against her. However, the exact reason for the extension of her detention has not been revealed.
Police rounded up about 20 members of her party who had marched to her house in the city of Yangon on Tuesday ahead of the junta's decision, said Sein Win, managing editor of Mizzima, an exile newspaper based in Thailand.
Because the Myanmar government exercises tight control of news within the country, exile groups are often the only source of information about what is happening inside.
Many of these news outlets operate out of Thailand, which is home to a large community of expatriates from Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.
Aung Zaw, editor-in-chief of Irrawaddy -- another magazine for Burmese exiles that is based in Thailand -- had said earlier Tuesday that it would be "a miracle if they released her."
Win of Mizzima added: "The junta knows she can shake up the country. If they release her, the opposition will be strengthened. And they want to get the opposition weaker and weaker."
Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, has become the face of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar and the focus of a global campaign to free her.
The country last held multiparty elections in 1990, but the regime ignored the results. Tuesday is the anniversary of that landslide victory by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, Win said.
Last year, the government came under intense international pressure after using force to suppress a pro-democracy movement.
On Monday, Myanmar state media said that voters had overwhelmingly approved a draft constitution that strengthens the junta's rule.
State television station, MRTV4, reported that 92.93 percent of eligible voters approved the constitution in a referendum held Saturday.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said it had received indications that the referendum was conducted "in an atmosphere of official coercion and vote tampering."
The military government refused international or independent referendum monitors and United Nations assistance in conducting the voting, the group said.
"Burma's rulers have shown no less contempt for the political rights of the Burmese people with the referendum than they have with their welfare after the cyclone," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
"Governments that are truly concerned about Burma's people should push harder for real democracy and political openness."
The balloting was conducted amidst a humanitarian crisis in the Irrawaddy Delta and other regions devastated when Cyclone Nargis made landfall on May 2.
About 130,000 people either died or are missing, according to the United Nations. And more than 2 million have been rendered homeless.
Because of the disaster, the government postponed the original May 10 balloting in those areas. However, the government said that in other parts of the country, voters approved the referendum in equally overwhelming numbers: 92.48 percent.
The draft constitution makes way for general elections in 2010, but it has been met with skepticism from pro-democracy opposition leaders.

The changes grant 25 percent of parliamentary seats to the military and states that the president can cede power to the military during a state of emergency.
"I will not be surprised if they keep her under arrest until 2010," Win said.

CNN's Saeed Ahmed and Jennifer Z. Deaton contributed to this report