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This is one election they couldn't 'fix'. It's been my understanding that the US always favored the other candidate, Ahmed Shafik. He was a crony of Mubarak.
For a while, it looked like Shafik was going to win.
But -- the crowds started to gather again on Tahrir Square.
Ultimately Morsi won the election.
I think they concluded if they let Shafik win, it was going be a Pyrrhic Victory.
The US = expert at close elections. 
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