re: #837 Rancher

Mousavi will win in a landslide but Dinnerjacket will rig the election and then we might just see a revolution. This could be an interesting day in history.

youths
The Mad Mullahs have already decided who will win.

My take:
Mousavi wins, that has a multitude of benefits for the Mad Mullahs. The are major benefits are:
1) The west, Obama in particular and the twits in Foggy Bottom see it as a new direction for Iran and soften their stances toward Iran. We’ll see a few years of talk, talk, while the centrifuges spin.
2) It mollifies the youth for a little while, they’ll expect changes coming and Mousavi will delivery some cosmetic reforms, but again it keeps the youths from throwing the Mullahs a neck tie party.

Elections in Iran are for shaping international perceptions of Iran, and keeping the Mad Mullahs in power.