latest vote totals

But now I read that this doesn’t even include Cairo and Giza yet, so there are still a ton of votes to be counted:

Mursi 4,406,782 (26.48 per cent)
Shafiq 4,115,840 (24.74 per cent)
Sabbahi 3,329,519 (20.01 per cent)
Abul-Fotouh 2,959,937 (17.79 per cent)
Moussa 1,778,244 (10.69 per cent)

Judging from the number of signs Morsi has around Cairo, he’ll still be in the top two. I saw very few Shafik posters in Cairo, but do know that plenty of people are voting for him.

A number of surprises here, but the two biggest are the strong showing for Sabbahi and the dismally weak showing for Moussa, whose supporters seem to have fled to Shafik.

If I had a vote and the runoff were between Morsi and Shafik, I’m afraid I couldn’t stomach either of them. I hate having a position like that, because I generally hate it when people try to outflank everyone else and claim the beautiful soul high ground. But I just don’t see how I could cast a vote for either of those two, even if holding my nose closed with clothespins. Which would you choose: total control of government for the Brotherhood? Or Mubarak’s Counter-Revolutionary Prime Minister who has boasted that the army can clear the streets in 5 minutes anytime we ask them to?