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Cairo

The major news story from this election was the fighting between the candidates from the United Democrat and Alliance parties. Labour. Conservatives. Alliance. United. Cairo. Kosara.

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Cairo

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  1. The major news story from this election was the fighting between the candidates from the United Democrat and Alliance parties. Labour Conservatives Alliance United Cairo Kosara While these two parties were #3 and #4 in terms in popularity, this made their race far more interesting, because after a certain deadline the government only continues to fund the campaigns of the top three parties. The #4 party is effectively disqualified from the race.

  2. Labour Conservatives Alliance United Cairo Kosara Cairo, the Alliance candidate, initially had a healthy lead in the polls, but during an initial debate, Cairo made a major error – he blatantly insulted Kosara’s spouse, suggesting that she wasn’t very bright.

  3. Labour Conservatives Alliance United Kosara Cairo It backfired. By the next morning, Kosara was running attack ads on television, simply replaying the insult for voters, and asking whether the people wanted such a cruel man as their president. Kosara took a strong lead over Cairo.

  4. Labour Conservatives Alliance United Kosara Cairo In a later debate, another event happened. During a heated moment on controversial limitations on freedom of the country’s press, Cairo challenged Kosara on his inconsistent policies: he seemed to like press restrictions for organizations that disagreed with his beliefs.

  5. Labour Conservatives Alliance United Cairo Kosara Kosara seemed unprepared for this attack, and looked lost. He tried to switch the topic to Cairo’s insult toward his wife, and it backfired, giving him the appearance of avoiding real issues. Cairo took the lead again.

  6. Labour Conservatives Alliance United Cairo Kosara So to summarize, Cairo was initially ahead, until his accidental insult put Kosara in the lead. During a later debate, Cairo took back the lead when Kosara tried to raise the stale story once again.

  7. Cairo Kosara Coalition Conservatives Alliance United This graph shows polling data from the election, so that you can see the impact of these debate events for yourself. You can see in the circle where Cairo’s party was initially ahead, but on May 25, his accidental insult put Kosara in the leadinstead.

  8. Cairo Kosara Labour Conservatives Alliance United But on June 17th, you can see where Kosara’s attempt to bring up the issue again resulted in a loss of voters, bringing Cairo in the lead again.

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