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Iraq's novice political candidates embrace campaigning | Jan. 10, 2009
Los Angeles Times | Link to article »
“In terms of parties and candidates, you're not going to see a lot of phone calling and phone banking,” said Erin Mathews, director of Iraq programs for the Washington-based National Democratic Institute, which is holding workshops for nearly 800 Iraqi candidates. “More of the parties are doing things like pamphlets, door hangers and door-to-door campaigning, which sounds tremendously impossible in Iraq, but it's not.”
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