The rumors are that he will launch an "auto-golpe", which will only be possible if the military is on board, and this will require that the press be firmly muzzled or shut-down.
Rosales is looking good in the polls, but beyond that people know that Chavez isn't leaving whatever the polls say. He controls the vote-counting machine, and everyone knows it. But when he steals this election people know they either accept him as president for life, or prepare a more definitive response.
There is no question whether Chavez will become "president for life". He already is. The only question, once this election has been engineered, is do you let him do a Castro and die of old age still living in the presidential palace, or do you force him out. You can't vote him out. All that is left is to learn to love Big Brother or pull the plug on him yourself.
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