Posted on 07/02/2006 6:24:13 PM PDT by lauriehelds
Kieran Murray and Alistair Bell
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential election is too close to call between a leftist anti-poverty campaigner and the conservative ruling party candidate locked in a tie, a respected exit poll said on Sunday.
The extremely close vote raised fears of a political crisis if any of the main candidates challenge the results and call street protests.
Pre-election polls had showed Felipe Calderon of the ruling party and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-wing former mayor of Mexico City, in a virtual tie. Exit polls from Mexico's two main television station and the El Universal newspaper said they could not declare a winner.
El Universal said the race was between Lopez Obrador and Calderon. Neither of the TV stations mentioned Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century.
The Federal Electoral Institute was expected to announce official results at around 11 p.m. If it is unable to call a winner, Mexico could face days or weeks of legal wrangling and protests similar to the fight that followed the U.S. presidential election in 2000.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
ping
House: PAN 143, PRD 101, PRI 43, others 0?
Senate: not broken down yet, PAN leading
Ah, yes I know (I should know :)) I was kind of clarifying how Mexico City is not supossed to be inside of Estado de México, but of D.F., and just spilled in there. Sorry for the mess-up.
Calderon Dinosaur Socialist
0.421633438 0.203790594 0.374575968
That's even better than I thought. And region #4 might narrow down a bit because most of Socialist lead there is in the Federal District (+30% AMLO) and they are ahead of the rest of region (only +6% AMLO) in counting.
LOLOL Well, it's worked before ;)
Hey are the results in??
Calderon Dinosaur Socialist Other
Total Nacional 2,193,317 1,048,089 1,964,204 273,229
Porcentaje 39.33% 18.79% 35.22% 4.89%
Aguascalientes 34,812 15,731 14,911 4331
Baja California 737 397 340 96
Baja California Sur 924 561 1,215 134
Campeche 6,661 4,548 6,867 783
Coahuila 106,275 56,702 52,653 11,080
Colima 1,890 1,218 968 162
Chiapas 29,871 31,011 55,806 4,497
Chihuahua 49,538 30,878 21,774 5,885
Distrito Federal 228,676 69,134 460,044 36,706
Durango 49,867 21,934 23,288 4,921
Guanajuato 179,891 47,712 42,978 12,811
Guerrero 28,839 30,139 75,714 6,798
Hidalgo 25,772 18,960 36,076 4,805
Jalisco 235,259 101,808 88,648 25,444
México 267,082 130,842 334,053 46,362
Michoacán 97,246 39,032 98,622 9,370
Morelos 36,656 15,568 46,063 6,463
Nayarit 1,715 2,738 4,126 384
Nuevo León 198,723 97,725 60,186 20,129
Oaxaca 21,353 22,715 50,951 3257
Puebla 102,612 39,232 73,450 12,022
Querétaro 50,584 14,794 24,059 4558
Quintana Roo 21,144 14,380 23,182 2800
San Luis Potosí 62,415 16,924 24,784 5543
Sinaloa 38,870 23,926 33,381 4113
Sonora 154 57 38 9
Tabasco 3,367 30,626 45,480 879
Tamaulipas 97,300 53,525 63,890 10,829
Tlaxcala 10,654 4,626 13,950 1811
Veracruz 132,129 73,319 140,493 16,110
Yucatán 43,039 23,265 16,492 3,748
Zacatecas 29,262 14,062 29,722 6,389
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
Just starting to trickle in.
Just like in Canada...although such is almost impossible in the US unless a third party can get solid representation.
Too close... if OTHER went for the PRD... yikes... 'other' is generally the hard-line commies
The federal district has the socialist ahead by 8%, with 10% in versus 15% for the nation as a whole.
Well thank God this is bizzaro Canada where the Left is divided and the Right is United. LOL
A Moderate Party would take 60% of Democrats and let the wacko's have it while we could make the GOP a real conservative party and win real national elections
UM.. I think this is Mexico actually..
we need updates... =o) every 5-10 seconds... 12 at most
States that Calderon is leading in: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Coahuila, Colima, Chihuahua, Durango*, Guanajuato*, Jalisco*, Nuevo León*, Puebla, Querétaro*, San Luis Potosí*, Sinaloa, Sonora*, Tamaulipas, Yucatan
States that Obrador is leading in: Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Distrito Federal*, Guerrero*, Hidalgo, Mexico, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit*, Oaxaca*, Quintana Roo, Tabasco*, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Zacatecas
States that Madrazo is leading in: NONE
*indicates leading with a majority
Madrazo is just so much dead weight apparently
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