Monrovia, July 6 -- This year's Midterm Senatorial elections is more than just a race pitting the incumbent Abraham Darius Dillon against whoever the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change put up as a challenger. With a population of more than one million likely voters, this is as good as it gets for a vote-rich county that has undoubtedly become the hotbed gauging point of politics in Liberia.

Analysis by Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

It is here that in 1985, when the brutal dictator Samuel Doe was planning his controversial elections, aides made it clear that it would difficult to convince Liberians and the international community that a fiery Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a rising political icon in her day, lost the ...