RE: The Rise (and Fall?) of Political Islamism

I think that the political Islamists in Tunisia and Egypt had such great turnouts at the ballots are because Islam is one common connection most of the country has in common. Tunisia and Egypt are both majority Muslim countries. I also think that because most of the political Islamists are not in fact politicians or at least weren't, made the public feel better in their decision to make a religious Muslim be put in power.