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The Baath party of Syria nominated President Bashar Assad for a second seven-year term in office.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The Baath party of Syria nominated President Bashar Assad for a second seven-year term in office. Syrians will go to the polls on May 27. As we go to press, Assad is unopposed. Will he top the 97 percent of the vote that he won in his first race seven years ago? U.S. News & World Report analyst Michael Barone notes that Syrians historically like dynasties (Assad's father Hafez held the post before him), and Rasmussen ...

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