36% suppport Mugabe. 31% support Bush.

Now, you have to allow for a few percent who really truly support someone for logical, self-serving reasons, but there aren't that many people who directly benefit from failed leadership.

Conclusion: around 25% of the human race is just plain stupid.

South Africa should take a long look at Zimbabwe, for this is their future.

Independent monitoring groups: Mr. Mugabe, you came in second with 36% of the votes.
Robert Mugabe: So?

Mugabe and George Bush sorta operate in the same way---hold that their own off kilter verson of reality is real and don't pay any attention to the way things truly are and then blithely go on as if all were peachy-keen.

He's a crazy old fart who has killed thousands of his own people and ruined his country with ill informed financial policies....
So let's elect our own crazy old fart that will kill thousands of his own people and ruin our country with ill informed financial policies.

He's got billions socked away, he's just planning his escape before results are released. He knows if he doens't get out with the money, the new government will seize it.

In my neighborhood, one can typically see vans parked on major thoroughfares emblazoned with pro-Mugabe posters. This is not just in election season -- they're out there year-round. The major theme seems to be that Mugabe is a great liberator of Africa, that anybody who says otherwise is a puppet of the U.S. Government, which wants to keep the black man down, and that any ill effects felt by the people of Zimbabwe are the result of U.S. manipulation and skullduggery.

I've always suspected that most people who see this nonsense believe it.

"The MDC says it is fighting to save Zimbabwe's economy.

The country has the world's highest inflation rate, at more than 100,000%, and just one adult in five is believed to have a regular job."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/30/iraq.main/index.html
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It appears that they do have somewhat of a problem with their economy.

Mugabe has been a nightmare for the people of Zimbabwe. The faster he's gone, the better it will be for the country. I'd go further and say that both Mugabe and Bush are cut from the same cloth (power-hungry, paranoid sociopaths), but it actually looks like Bush can't wait to get out of Washington and go cut brush. Good riddance to both of them.

You are not wrong Lis. Ironically the Zimbabwe opposition's platform is CHANGE. Out with the old,In with the new

Is everyone in America so interested in Hillary vs. Obama that they can't pay attention to any other election?

I think this is news.

Am I wrong?

Does anyone actually believe that Mugabe will just walk away from and surrender power?
He will not this is the 3rd election that he has lost and he still is in power. Why even have elections? what a waste of time.
Mugabe will stay in power until he dies.