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Mexican Leftist Candidate Obrador says he will legally challenge the election results!
Yahooooo News Alert ^ | 7/6/06

Posted on 07/06/2006 6:42:11 AM PDT by areafiftyone

MEXICO CITY (AP) Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he will legally challenge the results in Mexico's closest election ever


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elections; mexico
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To: areafiftyone
It's Florida 2000 all over again.
21 posted on 07/06/2006 6:53:58 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: dawn53

right on! Obragore Alert!


22 posted on 07/06/2006 6:54:42 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: RayChuang88

Instead of Flori-DUH! it's Mexi-DOH!


23 posted on 07/06/2006 6:55:04 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Don't fall for the soft bigotry of assuming all Hispanics are pro-amnesty. www.dontspeakforme.org)
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To: Antoninus
'Andres, just keep on counting over and over again until the votes you need magically appear. Then declare victory and demand that your opponent concede immediately.'"

LOL Sounds just like the Democrats way to victory.

24 posted on 07/06/2006 7:00:06 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicans Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For the Same Reason!)
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To: areafiftyone

"MEXICO CITY - Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon was winning an official vote count by a razor-thin margin Thursday, but his leftist rival said he won't accept the results and will take his demands to court."

Would you expect anything else from a leftist socialist revolutionary? Leftists lie, steal, cheat, and maybe even kill to achieve their goals. Of course with the USA leftists showing the way, the idea of Statesmanship has been long gone from the political arena. Frankly, the last one was Nixon yielding a razor thin election result to JFK a long time ago.


25 posted on 07/06/2006 7:04:49 AM PDT by olezip
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To: areafiftyone

Why do they keep referring to this dood as a leftie? wouldn't the proper term be "communist" ?


26 posted on 07/06/2006 7:04:58 AM PDT by Element187
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To: areafiftyone

Chad city yet again. They should let Palm Beach or was it West Palm Beach? recount the ballots.


27 posted on 07/06/2006 7:17:47 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Antoninus

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 07/06/2006 7:19:00 AM PDT by GOPRaleigh (If John Kerry didn't exist then Karl Rove would have to invent him.)
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To: areafiftyone

El Gore!


29 posted on 07/06/2006 7:19:20 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (No.... wire .... hangers!)
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To: mortal19440

The Left has never been too sure about this democracy concept, anywho. The idea of the governing by the consent of the governed has always given the Libs the creeps, to some degree and they are very suspicious of where that can lead.


30 posted on 07/06/2006 7:22:30 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: All

Not that I want Obrador as president...but any serious candidate would demand a recount for such a close election. I would have have hoped George Bush would have demanded a recount had he lost by less than 1%...Any candidate and his followers would deserve this if it is legal. I just find it amazing that both of our countries (Mexico and USA) have suffered an almost statistical impossibility of such close elections. I hope we never endure another one ourselves...I hope our future elections will be a resounding yes or no...not maybe..


31 posted on 07/06/2006 7:26:40 AM PDT by Maringa
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To: areafiftyone; All

I think the split so far is about 160,000 votes (0.05%). I'd say he has a right to a recount.


32 posted on 07/06/2006 7:33:32 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Maringa; taxed2death

You both have a point. This election is much too close not to demand a recount. I am praying the 2008 election here is not a close one. I don't want to go thru another 2000 election again!


33 posted on 07/06/2006 7:36:03 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicans Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For the Same Reason!)
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34 posted on 07/06/2006 7:43:27 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus
LOL!

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35 posted on 07/06/2006 7:45:30 AM PDT by andyandval
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To: andyandval
Hehehe. Here's a cropped version:


36 posted on 07/06/2006 7:46:57 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: areafiftyone

"Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he will legally challenge the results in Mexico's closest election ever"

I guess if he is ahead after the recount he will challenge that??

Typical lib, crying foul...all of the time.


37 posted on 07/06/2006 7:48:01 AM PDT by RouxStir (No islam, know peace.)
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To: Maringa

"Not that I want Obrador as president...but any serious candidate would demand a recount for such a close election. I would have have hoped George Bush would have demanded a recount had he lost by less than 1%...Any candidate and his followers would deserve this if it is legal."

NONSENSE. There are legal requirements for challengers and a .5% margin of victory is NOT CLOSE in vote counting terms. There have been much closer races in history most not contested once the counting was done. Calderon won by 200,000+ vote margin.

" I just find it amazing that both of our countries (Mexico and USA) have suffered an almost statistical impossibility of such close elections."

Er no, not a 'statistical impossibility' or even improbability. Did you know that Bush/Gore was one of several close elections in our history, like 1976 (Carter barely beat Ford), or 1948, or 1876 (that was a big mess!), or *the one case where a President may have stolen an election* - 1960.

Calling this election close in comparison is absurd. Calderon lead with 200,000+ vote margin. NOT CLOSE. let me tell you close: Two state house Rep seats had a margin of victory of less than 100 votes out of 60,000 votes casts. No recounts.

"I hope we never endure another one ourselves."

Mexico just has a clean, close fought election with a CLEAR WINNER - CALDERON. Obra-gore can whine and demand a recount but it was a clean, fair election with a clear winner. I hope all our elections are equally as clean and fair. And I hope future close-losers quit with the Sore-Loserman tactics.


38 posted on 07/06/2006 7:53:06 AM PDT by WOSG (-)
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39 posted on 07/06/2006 7:54:48 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: taxed2death

Your percentage is off. 200,000 vote margins is more like 0.5% gap. This is a close election, but not close at all in vote recount terms. It's impossible for a recount to put Obrador ahead unless the manufacture 200,000 votes or eliminate the same somewhere. Aint gonna happen.

If Orbador was a class act, he'd concede. He lost. Calderon won. Game over.

Also, Mexico laws determine the 'right' to a recount, and they do not allow for nationwide recount only ballot by ballot contest.


40 posted on 07/06/2006 7:56:19 AM PDT by WOSG (-)
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