[nj26]

Sound familiar to anybody?

If Lopez Obrador wins, there is likely to be a major monetary/economic crisis in Mexico, and we will be regretting not having that wall already built.

[Kay]

Too bad I don't subscribe to the WSJ now. I would have liked to finish this article.

[Heartofsong83]

We should seal that border tight then and declare a trade embargo with Mexico if Chavez,er um, Obrador is elected...

[DakotaRed]

If the Mexican left is anything like the American left, once Calderon wins again, they will miraculously "find" a few thousand "lost" ballots, from every household pet, cemetery and future born children of the leftists.

I have yet to see a leftist win an election honestly.

[Cyclopean Squid]

What a farce. Corrupt democracy is worse than blatand dictatorship because it carries the false aura of legitimacy.

[StJacques]

Pay attention everyone. I've been tracking this all day and I am quite confident that everything is going to work out with Calderon winning.

If you go to the homepage of the Mexico City newspaper El Universal at (this is a pop-up link):

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html

and look at the upper left you will see the updated vote count. What is more important is the statement in Spanish that reads "Los Resultados pueden cambiar in cualquier momento y no marcan a ninguna tendencia" which translates to "the results can change at any moment and do not show any tendency."

This same statement has been repeated in dozens of reports I have read all day long as I have tracked this, and I have translated two different articles which I have posted today on the close Mexican election.

I want to call your attention to one particular post I made within one thread today in which I explained the Mexican electoral process to CedarDave, who was very anxious about the possible outcome:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660837/posts?page=16#16

If you will read that post you will understand that what is going on today is a certification process of reports turned in this past Sunday to the PREP (Program of Preliminary Electoral Results) who handled the preliminary count after the election. All day long I have been looking for reports that suggest there has been a change in the vote totals reported in the documents turned in and I have found none. I have repeatedly found public statements that officials say no changes have been noticed.

And more importantly, from my post you will understand that if a change was noticed, it would be very big news and you would be hearing the PAN leadership screaming everywhere about it. They're not stupid everyone and they have their observers on the scene witnessing the certification of votes. There have been no significant changes thus far I can assure you.

So, unless I see some results from Sunday-Monday's counts reported as changed, I think it is quite easy to say that Calderon is going to win by about 250,000 votes, or .4% (four-tenths of one percent) of the total.

And as I write now Calderon trails in the certified vote by 1.04%, a percentage split that has been going steadily in his direction since they were at about 54% of the total counted.

And I am continuing to keep track of this count.

[1066AD]

Can't confess to have followed the campaign in detail but just what did Calderon propose to improve the lot of the average Mexican so that he's not tempted to head north ?

Money is power and the powers that be aim to keep it that way (not just Mexico either). I'm no lefty but I find it rather surprising that in Central & South America it's only now that we see the indigenous folk (eg Bolivia) get close to, or even attain the power that the descendants of the old colonials have monopolised for so long.

We can only hope the election concludes peacefully.

[shield]

Calderon will WIN...watched a mexican news person in Mexico City...she said in the wee hours of this AM..voting will be complete, last to count are the north region which will go totally to the conservative and all are saying the preliminary count on Monday will hold...it will be Calderon.

[Rembrandt]

Smells like Algore with le aroma of Jeanne Francois Cheri.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Sadly, I had no doubt that a "recount" would flip the election to the Leftist candidate. This has been going on here for many years. They figure that the "polite society" will never contest their balsy moves. And sadly, they have been right so far.

[no dems]

Let's see an all-out civil war break out in that Marxist, POS of a country.

Why can't the U.S. say to Mexico: "Either take a serious role in helping us curb illegal immigration from your country within one week, or we will cut off all trade with Mexico."

I'm getting real pissed off over Mexico's attitude.

[GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos]

Uh oh! They're counting the votes from districts in a different order than when they came in during the election.

Now, if Calderon comes back and wins the recount the leftists will go totally nuts.

[Jeff Head]

Sounds like Washington state...liberals recount the vote until they win...however they have to "finess" the numbers

[Centurion2000]

Actually this is shaping up to be a Mexican Civil War.

[Sprite518]

Oh what is new. I guess they learned from the DNC in the State Of Washington.

[Chesterbelloc]

By late yesterday the recount had finished 80% of the count in the 16 states that Mr. López Obrador won, and just 57% in the other half, where Mr. Calderón won.

Nevertheless, the early returns favoring the leftist took many by surprise.

If they have done most of the counting in the states that Obrador won then it is not surprising that he would be slightly ahead at this point. Assuming a fairly honest count in both the initial returns and now then Caldrón will catch up and pass Obrador as more of his winning areas are counted.

[hosepipe]

[ Recount Tilts Outcome in Mexico (Leftists Trying to Steal Election) ]

Every election mexico has ever had was stolen..

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Obrador knows how to properly stuff a ballot box, don't ya know. He got his tips from those sorry excuses for people, who decided pick on the Floridians. I'm waiting for them to come up with a pregnant chad debate...

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

My favorite quote so far is Obrador, who garnered less than 36 percent of the vote, thanking "the majority of Mexicans who supported him."

Looks like we're about to see the old Leftist tactic of claiming the support of the majority, then reacting with violence and strikes when the majority state otherwise.