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Chavez wins re-election by wide margin
AP via Yahoo ^ | December 3, 2006 | N/A

Posted on 12/03/2006 6:58:47 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez, an outspoken opponent of the United States who has used Venezuela's oil wealth to give handouts to the poor, won re-election to another six-year term by a wide margin on Sunday, official results showed.

With 78 percent of voting stations reporting, Chavez had 61 percent to 38 percent for challenger Manuel Rosales, said Tibisay Lucena, head of the country's elections council. Chavez had nearly 6 million votes versus 3.7 million for Rosales, according to the partial tally.

Turnout was 62 percent, according to an official bulletin of results, making Chavez's lead insurmountable.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: brutalleftistthug; citgo; hugochavez; hugoping; jimmycartershero; latinamerica; stealingelections; thug; venezuela
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Chavez most likely got all those votes. He is giving the oil revenues to the poor, and stealing private property from the wealthy. Of course alot of the poor vote for him, that is until the country turns broke when oil drops and the money runs out during an election cycle and there is no more private property to confiscate.


61 posted on 12/04/2006 4:24:07 AM PST by dogbyte12
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To: kinoxi

Of course he has to have an opponent. Can you think of a better way for him to be declared legal and legitimate president of Venezuela? The only polititian who was clear about this situation was Henry Ramos Allup, from the Acción Democrática party. Months ago he said that without proper conditions it would be suicide to participate in this election. The opposition as a whole criticized him for his statements. Another Venezuelan who repeated once and again that it was madness to participate in an election without conditions was former Chávez ally and former Ambassador to the OAS, Virginia Contreras, who now lives in Washington D.C. Months ago, she said that a statement should be made to the international news media by all opposing parties that there were no conditions to go to elections against a president who has control of all powers, including the electoral one. The opposition missed their last change at being considered a "serious" opposition.


62 posted on 12/04/2006 5:42:48 AM PST by Hope from Venezuela
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To: FreedomPoster

I have very good friends here in the US from Venezuela with family there. They said that there were lists of those who signed the petition against Chavez in the LAST election and those people were fired from or not given jobs, visas etc. There will be retribution against those who voted against him, count on it.


63 posted on 12/04/2006 5:45:15 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Chavez gave away things. The public became addicted to the free things. They reelected the guy who gives away free things.
Before long this leads to govmnt geting bigger, all-encompassing, intrusive, controlling, authoritarian, dictatorial. Dissenters are suppressed. People have less and less. Elite has more and more.
People are too stupid to know that their choice brought about their ruin.


64 posted on 12/04/2006 5:56:26 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

This jackass is dictator for life. He'll do for Venezuela what Castro did for Cuba.


65 posted on 12/04/2006 5:58:52 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: longtermmemmory
Doesn’t he own a software company that powers the e-voting machines? Or did they use paper ballots.

Naaaaa... You'd be surprised how well lead works as a motivator in getting people to vote for your guy.

66 posted on 12/04/2006 5:59:05 AM PST by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn.)
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To: Hendrix

"The democrats would like to get us in the same situation."

Well, it is the Dummiecrap motto...."Keep 'em down and keep 'em dumb."


67 posted on 12/04/2006 6:19:12 AM PST by rippingmyhairout (Some things that make you go "hmmmmmm")
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

What a surprise!


68 posted on 12/04/2006 6:46:21 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Where is James Bond when you need him?


69 posted on 12/04/2006 6:53:05 AM PST by jmcenanly (Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Boycott Citgo, if you haven't already.


70 posted on 12/04/2006 7:05:39 AM PST by oblomov ([Government] watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute. - T. Paine)
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To: rbosque

You got it right. The more you study Soviet history and marixism in general, the more you see this ebb and flow of people that are attracted to it, live it, then repulse from it. It happens in various amounts of disaster.

Sadly, a lot of people want a marxist utopian life. A lot.


71 posted on 12/04/2006 7:07:30 AM PST by Tolsti
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To: Thunder90; MadIvan; Tailgunner Joe; spanalot; Mazepa; Kozak; romanesq; M. Espinola; ChiMark; ...
Hugo Chavez emulated Vladimir Putin in winning Re-election through fradulent means.

Oh really?

Let us see, these are the results of 2004 elections:


Vladimir Putin - United Russia 48,931,376 - 71.2%

Nikolay Kharitonov - Communist Party of the Russian Federation 9,440,860 - 13.7%

Sergey Glazyev - populist supported by Rodina 2,826,641 - 4.1%

Irina Khakamada - open society/free market 2,644,644 3.8%

Oleg Malyshkin Liberal - Democratic Party of Russia (of Zhirinovsky) - 1,394,070 2.0%

Sergey Mironov - pro-Putin :) Russian Party of Life 518,893 - 0.8%


So according to you Putin has stolen the presidency from Khakamada?


72 posted on 12/04/2006 7:11:31 AM PST by A. Pole (Dzerzhinsky: There are no innocent people.There are only such who weren't examined in the proper way)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Don't generalize to all of FR or even "most" of FR based on what a vocal minority say. I think most of FR would justifiably praise the economic policies of Costa Rica and Panama, and would support the cause of the Cuban expatriates in south Florida. Also, most of FR was galvanized against the Clinton Administration's actions in the Elian Gonzales affair.


73 posted on 12/04/2006 7:12:35 AM PST by oblomov ([Government] watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute. - T. Paine)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Surprise, surprise, surprise!


74 posted on 12/04/2006 7:20:03 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: jazusamo

LOL No worries! I need to catch up when I get back home, and have my complete list.

The media seems to be loving Hugo's win, no?


75 posted on 12/04/2006 7:54:56 AM PST by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Saddam Hussein won by a landslide in his last election. Chavez is in good company.


76 posted on 12/04/2006 8:12:01 AM PST by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever
give handouts to the poor

The same way the democrats win here in the U.S., except the poor are poor by choice and democrats steal the money from the other citizens paychecks to do it.

77 posted on 12/04/2006 8:14:01 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: longtermmemmory
Doesn't he own the software company that powers the e-vote machnes?

Our voting machines, too, and the democrats easily took power. It kinda makes me wanna go "Hmmmm."

78 posted on 12/04/2006 8:16:11 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

It is not hard to believe Chavez won easily his reelection.

He is a hard core populist and has given away all sort of goodies and welfare give aways to the nations poor and no doubt they swarmed the poll stations.

I think the business and the upper middle class in Venezule despise Chavez and his bully tactics but the rest of the poor think he is some sort of hero for his welfare programs.


79 posted on 12/04/2006 8:20:17 AM PST by GregH
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To: GregH
Bob Beckel will go on TV and say the election was legal. He did it the last election.
80 posted on 12/04/2006 8:25:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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