WHACK! Hitting the Links in the Afternoon

Weather tomorrow predicted to be 16-21C with rain. That's tolerable weather for Taipei citizens, who after all are used to a troglodyte existence with no sunlight for months at a time. It's amazing to me that any vegetation is alive in this city. Hence don't expect the weather to affect the vote up here.

• Ketty Chen comments on Al Jazz about the election.
• NYTimes channels IPS story on how the vote will determine the fate of nuclear power. The IPS story is much better.
• NYTimes says 70-80% of Taiwanese in China backing Ma.
• Douglas Paal, former AIT head, private citizen expert in dog and pony shows, arrives to let everyone know he supports the KMT.
• TSU says it must garner 5% of the vote or die. We can only pray.
• Vote buying, dirty tricks: DPP complains.
• AP: Candidates make final push
• Anyone looked at the bond and currency markets? They don't see any issue with a Tsai win.
• Tsai might win. Fortunately Beijing and Washington need not feel horror at the prospect of a moderate economics PHD representing the pro-democracy party winning a legal and free election in a US-allied state. 
• SPECIAL HAHA: Su Chi, longtime KMTer, close Ma associate, in NYTimes extolling the virtues of Taiwan democracy for changing China. Among KMTers it is an article of faith that the democratic state built over KMT objections can change China. If the KMT had never encountered the Taiwanese, they would never be a political party in a democratic state. 

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