Iraq campaign season becomes a test of faith

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/23/iraq_campaign_season_becomes_a_test_of_faith/

BAGHDAD -- As Iraq's campaign season winds into its final week, voters will have to make their choices in a fog of limited information. snip

Just over half of Iraqis polled even know when election day is, according to the International Republican Institute, a nonprofit group. The same poll suggested that 46 percent of Iraqis believe that no political party represents them and that only two-thirds plan to vote.

Muslim Yasin, a schoolteacher, clutched a small flier he had been handed when he left his house yesterday in the Hay Jihad area of Baghdad. Beside a picture of a large man in a black suit -- the leader of the Iraqi National Unity Gathering, ballot number 146 -- a legend declared: ''Iraq is our house, we build it and protect it."

''I have no idea who this man is, or what his party is," Yasin said. ''For him, I am supposed to go and vote?"

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1. when the americans print only one name on the ballot

there will be only one outcome