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Here. Some interesting results.

In a latest poll (link in Arabic) done by an Iraqi centre for research and on the ground studies "Al Mada", 300 men and women were selected from different age groups, classes and jobs to answer series of questions regarding the upcoming elections, and the main results were:

67% do not support postponing the elections.

52% refuse the interference of clerics in politics and 39% support such interference.

100% of women in Azzamyia favored postponing the elections while 93.5% of the women in Sadr city favored that it would be held at the exact decided time.

85.66% have set up their minds on whom to vote for.

59.33% have no knowledge about the details of the election process, the lists of candidates and their platforms.

The poll included the poor Shi'at district Sadr city.

- Azzamyia district, where most of the residents are Sunni middle class families and was known since the 60s to be a stronghold for the Ba'athists.

-Karrada which is mainly middle and high class She'at district.

-Al Mansoor which is on of the fanciest neighborhood in Baghdad (sects, religions and ethnic group doesn't matter much there).

Other chosen districts were Al Doura, Al Karkh and Al Fadl.

Al Mansoor scored the highest percentage of people who have set up their minds on whom to vote, (87.94%) while the lowest was in Azzamyia, (13.15) and Sadr city scored 39.47%.

Azzamiya scored the highest percentage of those who favor the interference of clerics in politics (63%) while the lowest percentage was in Mansoor (21%)

Men scored the highest percentage in supporting separation of religion from politics. 57% of them said they didn't favor the interference of clerics in politics.

On the other hand 43% of women said they didn't favor the interference of clerics in politics compared to 46% who favored such interference.

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