Ask the Oregonian to cover Iraqi elections.

J. Houser asks the Oregonian to provide its readers with a series on the election campaign in Iraq. What a good idea! He asks:

How is the voter registration process progressing?
Who are the political candidates and parties?
What roles are the Bush and Allawi administrations playing in the upcoming elections?
Who is monitoring the election process?

I would really like to see this reported. All we have heard so far is that various Iraqi groups have asked for the election to be postponed until the country is calmer -- but Allawi just came back and said that they had to have the election as scheduled. Various Iraqi groups are urging Iraqis to boycott the elections. It's not clear that any elections can be held in insurgent areas of the country.