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Election Fatigue

Posted By tok_jimmy On July 29, 2007 @ 8:22 am In Politics | Comments Disabled

I’m suffering from it and I can’t even vote. Yes, it is polling day again, for what, the 3rd time in a year?
The BBC ^[1] is trying to seem interested. I guess it will be like a referendum on Abe’s post-Koizumi reign.

UPDATE (July 30):
Well the people have spoken. It was a Bloody Sunday ^[2] for the ruling Liberal Democrats (LDP), with the opposition Democrats (DPJ) winning a majority ^[3] in the Upper House for the first time in its history. The one-party system in Japan seems to finally have come to an end.

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[1] BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/asia_pac_japanese_voters0_views/html/1.stm

[2] Bloody Sunday: http://www.morganstanley.com/views/gef/archive/2007/20070727-Fri.html#anchor5293

[3] winning a majority: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070730p2a00m0na008000c.html

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