Iraqi airwaves, phones throb with election adverts

Television ads and text messaging by Iraq's multitude of political parties and candidates have become the latest weapons in the scramble to sway voters before they head to the polls to choose a full-term parliament on Thursday. ABCNews reports.

"This time some groups, including the Shi'ite Islamist parties that dominate the government, have taken to bombarding Iraqis with text messages to their mobile telephones.

The messages from the United Iraqi Alliance make much of the grouping's randomly allocated number on the ballot paper, 555. "

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