Posted on 02/06/2012 4:06:11 AM PST by NCjim
Voters from Mexico's ruling conservative party selected their first woman presidential candidate on Sunday, choosing a former education minister to battle the opposition's nominee, who has a big lead in the polls.
National Action Party (PAN) voters threw their support behind former party congressional leader Josefina Vazquez Mota, pushing aside Ernesto Cordero, a close ally of President Felipe Calderon.
Jose Espina, who organized the vote, announced Vazquez Mota was ahead with 55 percent support with around 87 percent of the votes counted, more than enough to secure the party nomination. Cordero came in second with 38 percent.
National polls show Vasquez Mota is the PAN's best chance against Enrique Pena Nieto from Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for most of the last century, but she trails him by 20 percentage points.
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Thanks NCjim.
While she’s behind the PRI candidate now, I think she has a pretty good chance. She’s a Palin-type candidate.
Also I think women are perceived as better and “cleaner” leaders against the drug cartels. Some of the police and mayors who have been killed by the cartels were women who had publicly taken those positions because they wanted to fight for their country. So women do have credibility on this issue.
This race labeling has become a disgusting and intentionally divisive tactic. They immediately attempt to create a difference between the individual they report on and segments of the targeted audience.
It's become automatic for me to read "Discard any credibility of the author and find another source".
Anyway, good luck to her. Hope she lives long enough to win and take office.
If she makes it to President, good thing Clinton is no longer the U.S. Pres, he would be on that (figuratively speaking) in no time flat.
LOL! Yes, that would have been a given.
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