Posted on 07/06/2006 8:41:37 AM PDT by Grendel9
Jul 06 11:10 AM US/Eastern By LISA J. ADAMS Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY
Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon built an insurmountable lead in Mexico's presidential vote count Thursday, but his leftist rival vowed to challenge the results in court.
With 99.56 percent of the vote counted, Felipe Calderon would win even if all the remaining votes went to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party. He had 35.82 percent of the vote, compared with 35.37 percent for Lopez Obrador.
Lopez Obrador supporters wept in the streets, saying they wouldn't let him be robbed of victory.
After 230 years, you would think this might catch on!
Best to wait "until the dust settles", because this election could get nasty.
Really, the things they teach in Government run schools these days..............
In Mexico, leftists believe in gun ownership.
The winner should be careful.
Don't get me going on that one. When I moved to NC, I got a rude awakening when I discovered that my California government schools left out a few thousand facts about the "Civil War".
It seems that whenever a Leftist loses an election there is an automatic assumption that he/she was robbed. The obvious explanation, namely that the candidate simply didn't get as many votes as his opponent, doesn't seem to make it to their radar screens.
OH sheesh, we all know it's a constitutional republic. It's just easier to write "democracy." In any event, that has become a synomym for republican governance regardless of its exact orgins. When the president talks about spreading democracy in the Middle East, I'm sure he's not referring to a mobocracy. It's just an easier term for people to understand.
Lopez Obrador supporters swept the streets,
It is too bad they weren't doing the latter. At least the public could've gained some good from their actions. Instead all the public got was a bunch of tears.
(Yes, I meant swept, as in with a broom.)
Right - GORE WON ------- GORE WON
I know, it's just that so many people DON'T know the difference. We need to educate them. No ridicule intended, by the way. I was just making a joke.
I love it when a conservative wins in any country it is reported as by "the thinest of margins". Other key sore loser one liners is "recount" or "questions arise of voter fraud" are always evident. To the press if a lefty candidate loses it is because of fraud. These people are all losers
Calderon is much more aware than his many U.S. supporters that his real political battles have just started.
First, you can see that almost 60% voted for one of the other two candidates, and those two candidates, and their supporters, are alot closer to each other than either is to Calderon.
Reflecting that political three way split is the fact that his minority led government will be a minority in the Mexican federal legislature as well.
Although the Mexican presidency is a more powerful executive office than the POTUS, Calderon will meet a majority against him in the legislature, when his push for reforms is seen as too much and too fast. Vicente Fox had the same problem and never found his way to even use as much of the power he actually had against it.
Calderon, like Bush, will be a national leader with the majority of the political elites at war against him.
Good post. You're absolutely right, and it is indeed an extremely dangerous game.
No worries : )
I don't give Calderon as much of a chance as Bush, because Bush at least has the nominal party control of the legislature. That said, I think Bush and the Repubs should have done quite a bit more on the legislative front than they have so far (oh, say, fix Social Security?). Calderon will get blamed for what happens no matter what, and will have to deal with PRD and PRI to get anything passed, so don't have much in the way of expectations.
The only one I see trying to hi-jack this thread is you! It is typical of liberals to project their actions on to others, and this is what you are doing. Keep the topic to the election we will all appreciate it
Actually it's a "democratically elected Representative Republic if one want's to get painfully specific.
Actually it's a "democratically elected Representative Republic if one want's to get painfully specific.
Ahhhh no sense of humor...a typical liberal trait, please have one implanted over the weekend, you will live longer...
:-)
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