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harrydre wrote:oAR aache hii ojinga we don't want polarization at this time. if he is sensing defeat he is free to bolt out. Kimemia is busy having machinery in place to ensure what happened in 2008 doesn't occur again else he goes down muthaura way. I specifically liked the idea to use all govt vehicles by police during the elections. These are the same kind of politics the fella played in 2007. It is sad that he doesn’t seem to have learnt anything from the events that followed. About the stoning - I strongly condemn these kind of things. But I also think that OAR or his team of advisors should be doing a better job of reading the mood of the people/crowds before saying some things. Recall that a similar incident happened in Homabay which is his home tuff a few days ago. Why is it that it is only his rallies that people are resulting to violence?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/27/2011 Posts: 1,777
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I found the following article very interesting: As political campaigns enter the homestretch, presidential candidates have been working hard to attract large crowds to their rallies, and their aides have become increasingly edgy about their portrayal in the media.
It is not unusual for handlers of these politicians to call newsrooms complaining that the “mammoth” crowds that attended their rallies were not captured in published photos.
But the unexamined question is: Do large crowds at rallies mean a comparably high number of votes?
No, they don’t, says Prof Winnie Mitullah, a political scientist at the University of Nairobi. Prof Mitullah was part of a team that conducted a study in the early1990s of a possible relation between large turnouts at candidates’ rallies and their eventual performance on voting day.http://elections.nation....8/-/2ynqtiz/-/index.html
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