Mugabe Buried in Landslide?

Flickr photo by Steve Evans under a Creative Commons license. Unofficial election results in Zimbabwe show a landslide victory for Morgan Tsvangirai over Robert Mugabe. The election commissioner indicated the release of the official results would begin this morning. Reconsidering the pre-election poll with the assumption that the unofficial numbers hold up, clearly the vast majority of respondents who refused to disclose their preferences ended up voting for Tsvangirai. The reluctance to discuss political preferences with pollsters is explained by the campaign of fear and intimidation waged in the run up to the election, including the compiling of lists of opposition supporters and threats to deny them government services.