now we've got richard garcia who's the head of the regional studies center. richard, thanks tony. again, i'm sorry to bring you the heat to the midday sun. can you frame the size of this victory for especially on who voted for him and why? well, what's most significant is this endows incumbent prime minister nicole brushing you on with a rare degree of legitimacy. and especially in terms of deepening of democracy. what in many ways what this represented was much more of a no vote as much as a yes vote. in other words, there was a significant block of one, decided voters as much as 30 percent that emerged as the crucial and critical swing boat. not thoroughly voting in support of passion, yon, in any enthusiasm, but rather voting for the government out of fear or dread of the opposition and former president, robert court john sward and come back. so what is it about ca, cherry, and they just don't like, well, in many ways in terms of the lesser evil. shoddy on embodies evil. for many armenians, his terms as president of armenia, where he actually came to power by force and forcing

here is richard garcia, who is the director of the regional studies center in jada. yvonne's talk a little bit more about this, i might actually put a question to you, which i put to correspond to earlier. and that is why is this such a tight race? you would think when one candidate, the prime minister calls a snap election because he lost a war, then that should be pretty huge. this advantage to him. and yet it doesn't seem to be that much will as much as you might think. well in many ways this race is surprisingly competitive, but it's the wrong kind of competition in terms of a choice for the voters. busy between going back to the past or, or darian rather corrupt former governments, represented by the opposition or a choice to the future. what, in many ways, both the campaign discourse and the election itself has been a personality contest, much more than a competition of policies. despite that criticism, this is important as a genuinely free and fair election, and whoever wins will garner a rare degree of legitimacy going forward. if you strip away the personalities and even the issue

from quite a rejection that his main rival, robert terry and that's according to analyst richard garrick garcia, is a returned to armenia is less democratic, passed his terms as president of armenia, where he actually came to power by force and forcing the resignation of the 1st democratically elected president patrol in subsequent years for john by ruling the country rather than governing the country has been much better at fixing elections than winning elections. robert contrarian and his armenia alliance are rejecting their defeat, saying there were voting irregularities. but international observers had given the running of the election, their preliminary approval, if not the toner, which campaigning was conducted. the parliamentary elections in the republic of ammonia. they're competent and generally well managed with a short timeframe. whole. they were characterized by intense pull station. and maud, by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric among key contestants. this election has delivered something unusual for armenia and the region. a largely fair vote, in which the winner wasn't pre ordai

garcia is off this morning. >>> we begin with breaking news out of richard, police investigating the deadly overnight shooting at a party. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live outside police headquarters. i know you got new information on the number of victims. >> correct. we know that eight people were shot at this late night father's day celebration here in richmond. of those eight three people have died. five others were taken to the hospital. three of those were treated and released. another one is in fair condition. a fifth person who was shot is in critical condition. again, three people shot and killed. this happened around 11:00 last night at avenue. it's not far from the rom 23rd n richmond. this is known as a guatemalan marimba, celebration with music and dancing and in this instance they were celebrating father's day. this is according to someone at the scene. we know that the police right now, they are interviewing witnesses including family members and sounds like there were a lot of people from the same family at the event. we do not know yet what led up to the shooting and police told us the

garcia. another human branched out and suggested something meaningful to me and so many of us who love comedy and one of our original beatniks, richardis his twitter handle? >> i'm dead. that's his twitter handle. >> i'm dead. that's his twitter handle. so from beat viewer tom, the nomination is for richard lewis high anxiety fudge crunch. which begs the question, does the flavor give you anxiety or treat it? well, if it ever gets made, you can decide. as i mentioned, these ideas were all posted online and it urges the out, richard already has. and he's responding the name be the richard lewis death wish spectacular with nuts. and as you see at the end, miniature coffee coffins. shout out to richard lewis and we love your sense of humor. finally, carrie j tweeted her idea for beyonce and her fans shelf calls it beyonce bee hive. honey ice cream with waffle cone, chocolate covered almonds and a lemon ginger swirl. as beyonce might say, that sounds like an upgrade. i really enjoyed this. we had no idea how into it many of you would get. these sound like actual recipes. i want to thank everybody for being so creative. we'll see if anyon