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    A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo: Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.

    A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters
    Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo:
    Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.

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    Marine Le Pen, candidate for the far-right National Front, votes in Henin-Beaumont Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters From our correspondent in Paris Angelique Chrisafis following last night’s first round election results: The surge by the extreme-right Marine Le Pen - the highest ever score by the Front National - complicates matters. The race will now be tight and awkward.
    Marine Le Pen, candidate for the far-right National Front, votes in Henin-Beaumont Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

    From our correspondent in Paris Angelique Chrisafis following last night’s first round election results:

    The surge by the extreme-right Marine Le Pen - the highest ever score by the Front National - complicates matters. The race will now be tight and awkward.

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    Mitt Romney ‘glitter-bombed’ by gay rights acivists in Minnesota

    Mitt Romney was subject to the latest in a series of ‘glitter bombings’ by gay rights activists from the Glitterati group at a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday in protest at the former Massachusetts governor’s anti-gay marriage stance. Previous targets have included Romney’s rival candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Santorum

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    New Hampshire Primary 60 Years Ago

    Lovely look into the Newsweek archive - prompted us to take a trip into the Guardian archives for that same week. We had quite a bit of coverage of the New Hampshire primaries 60 years ago in 1952 - including this piece on Eisenhower’s opening bid for Republican candidate. You can see other picks from the Guardian archive here.

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