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 ...
Witch state is Mexico City in?
Wednesday is what IFE's president said as official date after every precinct has been cheched vote by vote. The current numbers are quick-stats results, that happened to be inside of statistical error and are therefore untrusty.
Federal District. (There is also the province of Mexico but that contains only suburbs, not the city itself.)
like DC it is not part of a state.
Mexico City is a federal district.
Distrito Federal.
34.2% in and Calderon continues to lead by about 366,000 votes.
AMLO (the socialist) has just said "We win". Says he has at least 500,000 votes more according with quick results (?).
The PRI is dead after this election. I was gonna stay in BC this weekend, but I was too tired to be down there during an election.
Would you happen to have the numbers from about the 15 percent point and again around 25? I'd be interested in running the percentages to see if they track the ones reported.
HAHA - those phantom "provisional ballots"????
Yep, AMLO declaring tentative victory
when all votes counted we will win...
probably right...sheesh
They can keep counting until Obrador wins?
Obrador is declaring irreversible victory as I post.
Good Lord.
And when Calderon wins, he will say the CIA engineered it, to get all his people fired up.
One more Excel projection:
Calderon 0.409482267
Dinosaur 0.210760158
Socialist 0.379757575
The projected % gap is now bigger than the current one. The Socialist regions are now ahead in counting.
Calderon Dinosaur Socialist 0.379051996 0.194469356 0.351280707 42% of the vote is in from the Federal District. There is a HUGE red-blue divide in Mexico. It is STUNNING. Here is the vote from Tabasco state with 31% in: Calderon Dinosaur Socialist 0.03800235 0.376377735 0.585619914
Any idea what % of Nuevo Leon (Monterrey) has reported? That's a highly-populated PAN stronghold.
Based on actual vote count in each of the five regions, and the adjusting for the percentage or precincts counted in each of the five regions, to reach an end total. Yes, I should do it by State, but that would really freak out my excel speadsheet. It is very irritable tonight. I am going to sue Greg Gates ASAP.
if it's close I think he might just "find" the votes he claims to have
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