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July 03, 2006

Mexico's Election Too Close to Call

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A fiery leftist promising a war on poverty was running neck and neck with a Harvard-educated conservative in Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, raising fears a contested result could split the country.
Exit polls showed Felipe Calderon of the ruling National Action Party and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-wing former mayor of Mexico City, so close it was impossible to declare a winner.

The problem seems to be that supporters of both men have already claimed victory...and that is a tricky thing to retreat from once you've done it. If you think it was a bit tricky for us to figure out the 2000 election, just wait until you see Mexico try to do it - no electoral college in Mexico, as far as I know, so it comes down to a popular vote count...and if the candidates are only thousands of votes off after millions are cast, then the charges of fraud - and an unwillingness to abide by the result - will be massive.

Poor Mexico!

Posted by Mark Noonan at July 3, 2006 12:38 AM

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No answer now until Wednesday...and the Democrats in this country will help the anti-USA candidate as much as they can.

Better look out for all of those dead people in south Texas and south Arizona voting right now.

Posted by: Warriornation

at July 3, 2006 12:46 AM

I'm not sure how credible this guy is but he's got the lesser of the 2 evils up by a little over 1%

Posted by: CJ

at July 3, 2006 09:11 AM

Yes CJ, there are Lizardoids even in Mexico. He's getting his numbers from TV Azteca.

Posted by: Macker

at July 3, 2006 10:00 AM

OK, I admit I'm baffled. What do you people want? Obrador hires Rudy Giuliani to help get tough on crime in Mexico City. Obrador wants to raise the minimum wage in Mexico. He wants to build giant infrastructure projects to create jobs in Mexico that only Mexicans by law can do. If their minimum wage is comparable to ours, why would they come here? He's not gonna raise YOUR taxes, is he? But somehow HE'S the anti-USA candidate.

Calderon wants more of the same-old rich get richer stuff that is driving Mexico's unemployed to America now. Is that what you want?

You'd think there were a bunch of Bilderberg billionaires blogging on this board, pardon the alliteration.

Posted by: congressive

at July 3, 2006 09:12 PM