I'm sick of everyone piling up on the highly popular Hamid Karzai. Let's provide context.

Barack Obama, a highly popular candidate last year, received 53% of the vote. Compare this to Karzai's feat, as reported in today's Washington Post:

In southern Helmand province -- where 134,804 votes were recorded, 112,873 of them for President Hamid Karzai -- the United Nations estimated that just 38,000 people voted, and possibly as few as 5,000, according to a U.N. spreadsheet obtained by The Washington Post.

That's close to 300% of the vote!

Now let's move forward.