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Abdullah, for one, is already prepared for a different kind of vote tampering. He expects fraud, he says, but assures TIME that his popularity will overcome any poll manipulation. "You can play with numbers through vote-rigging or through using the state apparatus. But you cannot ignore the sentiments of the nation. Karzai doesn't have that kind of support." Last week, Abdullah's campaign manager, Abdul Sattar Murad, told the Dubai-based National newspaper that his team would actively reject a result that had Karzai winning in the first round, saying the only way the incumbent could...
...loss in momentum, the political wing of the Obama Administration - Organizing for America - is launching a massive grass-roots campaign throughout the August recess to try to drum up a groundswell of support for health-care reform. It will be the first major test of Obama's campaign apparatus in a noncampaign setting. If the President hopes to get health care done in the fall, he will need the support of all 8 million supporters on his e-mail lists and many, many more. The White House is clearly trying to change the terms of the debate; during the press...
...have been firing up dissent. "We haven't seen this kind of security in 30 years," says one office manager in northern Tehran, alluding to the days before the 1979 revolution when the country was ruled by the Shah and his much-feared secret police, SAVAK. "They [the security apparatus] are lashing out because they're afraid the system is going to fall." (See pictures of the Basij in action: terror in plain clothes...
...these awful sales numbers jeopardize any aspect of the Obama rescue plan? Manufacturers insist that the latest car sales are a reflection of the underlying weakness of the U.S. economy. Bob Carter, head of the Toyota sales apparatus, notes that the Japanese automaker's sales totals continue to suffer from California's economic crisis as well as its real estate downturn. "It's not one thing: it's real estate, it's availability of credit, it's unemployment" that's hurting California sales, he says. Mike DiGiovanni, GM's general director of market analysis, says the present economic numbers suggest...
...Khamenei has now done something extraordinary to the regime's democratic apparatus. Even though Iran's Electoral Commission allows three days to hear challenges before presenting results to Khamenei for approval, the Supreme Leader rushed to put his seal of approval on the outcome, and warned all political factions to refrain from challenging it. His imposition of the result, just hours after the polls closed, stunned the country as doubts about the legitimacy of vote were voiced widely both inside and outside Iran. ((Read TIME"s coverage of Iran's post-election street fighting...