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
right on! Obragore Alert!
Instead of Flori-DUH! it's Mexi-DOH!
LOL Sounds just like the Democrats way to victory.
"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.
Why do they keep referring to this dood as a leftie? wouldn't the proper term be "communist" ?
Chad city yet again. They should let Palm Beach or was it West Palm Beach? recount the ballots.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
El Gore!
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.
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..
I think the split so far is about 160,000 votes (0.05%). I'd say he has a right to a recount.
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!
"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.
"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.
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.
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