Another "surprise" election win

For the second time in a week, an election took place in a country where to result was a foregone conclusion--kind of like when the Harlem Globetrotters play the Washington Generals.

Last Sunday it was Raul Castro's election as president of Cuba by the Communist Party elite.

This Sunday in Russia, the election had a much larger electorate and seemed fair, but surprising no one, Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has been declared the winner. Putin, barred from running for a third term by the Russian constitution, will move on to prime minister, but most likely will be president in all but name.

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