The Conservative Revolution

The Washington Post reports that Zimbabwe’s resident tyrant Robert Mugabe finished second in the first round of voting for president. There will likely be a runoff between Mugabe, who is believed to have gotten 42% of the vote, and Morgan Tsvangirai, who seems to have gotten 50% of the vote.

The resolution to Zimbabwe’s five-day-old political stalemate remains unclear. Some members of Zimbabwe’s jittery ruling elite have concluded that President Robert Mugabe must step down after apparently losing an election last weekend and have begun reaching out to opposition leaders to resolve the four-day-old political standoff, according to ruling party members, diplomats and political observers here.