http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aggr.QF9O7bk&refer=latin_america
Mexico's Calderon Leads GEA-ISA Presidential Poll With 36%
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Felipe Calderon of Mexican President Vicente Fox's National Action Party led in a presidential poll for the first time, according to a survey by Grupo de Economistas Asociados-ISA.
Calderon had 36 percent support from likely voters, up from 32 percent in February, Mexico City-based consulting company GEA said today. Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has led polls in the past, placed second to 34 percent, down from 41 percent in the previous GEA poll.
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Felipe Calderon's PAN party is the closest, ideologically, to Ronald Reagan's style of the Republican Party. How is it that Leftie Lopez Obrador led the polls without uninterruption for yearS only to suddenly lose that lead for the first time last week? My view is that the immigration debate's having reached its recent feverish pitch made more Mexicans realize that they had better learn to swim on their own, rather than sink into liberalism like Venezuela has done behind Chavez. Presidential elections (and Congressional ones, and there's NO incumbency down there) transpire this July 2nd.
The PAN party of Fox are socialists. There is nothing close to Reagan's party in that country.