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Chuck Hagel?

(Senator Chuck Hagel looks on as Pakistani women vote, during his visit to a polling station in Lahore, Pakistan, Feb. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/KM Chaudary))

(NYTimes) "a crushing defeat.... Almost all the leading figures in the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the party that has governed for the last five years under Mr. Musharraf, lost their seats, including the leader of the party, the former speaker of Parliament and six ministers."

(It wasn't even close enough to cheat.)

(Guardian) "With about 30 of the 272 seats undeclared, Musharraf's last hope is to prevent the opposition from gaining the two-thirds majority that would leave him vulnerable to impeachment in the new parliament.....

there were setbacks for the religious parties that have ruled the troubled North West Frontier province since 2002."

(AP) "If the opposition falls short of enough votes to remove Musharraf, the new government could reinstate the Supreme Court justices and ask them to declare the October election invalid."