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.
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Calderon: 38.7%
Obrador: 35.6%
Madrazo: 19.0%
24.26% reporting
The PRD is going to hunt down those OTHER voters.
Which of those three candidates run by the drug lords are expected to win?
(There may be a better site. Lo hablo muy malo & that is probably grammatically incorrect.)
What is the Uni saying? I turn on and there was honking the horns in the street.
How do you say 'hanging chad' in mexican??
After 5 million votes: Calderon ahead by 230 thousand.
After 10 million: Calderon ahead by 307 thousand.
The % gap is smaller but, as the number of votes, the gap is growing. Obrador is not catching up.
Prolly shilling for NOLA at the Essence Music Fesitval in Houston.
I am still trying to master American
Uni?? I don't speak spanish... I wonder if they have an english SAP channel?
Obrador keeps closing slowly he's 35.61 at 25.68 percent in now. This is a nail biter.
Drug Lord Party A, B or C?
Isn't the Sonoran desert and northern Baja on a later time zone? AFAIK, that is heavily PAN...
This feels like the German election...although we did manage to win that one (thank God!)
So they don't require a real majority? What about the people who didn't get to vote because they ran out of ballots?
¡Go Calderón!
Baja Notre is for PAN? That close to Californication? I hear they want to build a super-port to bypass US unions
I was in Cozumel and there was a big PT rally.
Pretty interesting -- they are definitely going for the underclass vote.
Their message was simple: Nationalize everything and redestribute to "the people."
Calderon: 38.6%
Obrador: 35.6%
Madroza: 19.1%
27.1% reporting
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