Below is the pool report ....it is about Secretary Clinton in Africa:
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Subject: Clinton VIP Pool Note #58
Secretary Clinton just wrapped her townhall event and we are enroute hotel for the night. The event centered on good governance and corruption, and the secretary told a very receptive crowd, in comparing US elections to Nigerian elections, "I know a little bit about running in elections, and, I have won some elections and I have lost some elections. And in a democracy there have to be winners and losers. And part of creating a strong democratic system is that the losers, despite how badly we might feel, accept the outcome, because it is for the good of the country we love. And of course in my country the man that I was running against, and spent a lot of time and effort to defeat, asked me to join his government. So there is a way to begin to make this transition that will lead to free and fair elections in 2011."
She later added, "Our democracy is still evolving. You know we've had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections as you might remember. In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for President was the governor of the stat, so we have our problems, too."
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