Re: President Musharraf addresses nation
if we take IRI surveys as te truth which we did not back in july 06 but did take seriously in fall 2007, he had 22-24% support in pakistan. thats a little more than 5000 I think.
Brother, I won't comment much, but have you noticed that what Malik_786 wrote? He wrote: ... 'He (Musharraf) literally might not get 5000 votes in a free and open election if he were running for President against someone'.
Now there are only 702 votes in Pakistan Presidential election ... given by 1170 voters where vote of some voters (like MPA of Punjab) has only 0.175 vote each in Presidential election.
Pakistan presidential election is such that a person can win and can become President of Pakistan if that person receives 'one' Blochistan MPA voter's vote (considered as 1 vote) and opponent gets 'five' Punjab MPA voter's votes (would be considered as 0.876 vote), while rest (All Senators, MNAs, and remaining MPAs) abstained.
So, it seems that Malik_786 giving Musharraf 5000 votes is obviously a lot, and it means that if President Musharraf gets that many votes accumulated over several free and fair elections, he would be President of Pakistan as long as Musharraf lives :)