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NBC and ABC both had correspondents in Baghdad ahead of the weekend's provincial elections. ABC's Jim Sciutto told us that 14,000 candidates are competing for 400 seats nationwide. He called it "an election taking place in something approaching normality," although what he meant by "normality" is unclear since, he reported, five candidates had been murdered within the previous 24 hours. NBC's Richard Engel focused on the quota that reserves 25% of elected position for women. "In past elections, female candidates were anonymous, most of them wives and sisters of male politicians," he conceded. Maybe not this time. Fighting on a platform to deliver water, power and sewers, meet Madhiha al-Mosuwi the so-called Mother Teresa of Baghdad, running for city council, and her rivals Hadija Jabri and Sabah al-Tamimi
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