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 ...
Oh, that helps ... almost all votes in from D.F.
I don't know anything about absentee voting in Mexico. Presumably it's allowed, but it may be rare. Probably most is conservative, but if there is provisional voting, most of those are probably leftist proletarians.
The trend is looking terrible. Unless someone can show me a huge number of not-yet-counted PAN votes, Obrador wins.
Let's see what happens when Mexico City bottoms out in a few minutes, here. Less than one percent between them in the latest update.
Thanks. If accurate, it is encouraging news.
I must say this is a very useful and informative thread.
Calderon Dinosaur Socialist 0.375884253 0.202873111 0.354268691
Yep, I think it is quite close to a wrap. Calderon will win by 2% to 3%, maybe less, but it is highly unlikely he will lose.
On the other hand, maybe having an openly leftist thug running Mex. might force congress to admit that Mex. really is not our ally, and do something sincere about the current/continuing invasion?
BTW, we have plenty of illegals from Canada, they even get deported occasionally, they are just not so easily spotted as the Mex's.
We have illegals here from every country in the world, some are just harder to see since they either make a real effort to blend in, or to stay out of sight.
Only the Mex. seem to think they can sneak in and them use their presence to DEMAND special treatment.
They have a holiday for that, "Day of the dead".
LOL
right...
whatever you say.
We want to have friends on our borders. Unstable situations, ala the one to our immediate South, does not enhance the security of the US one bit, wall or no wall.
And no, no way in hell does having a leftist twit in charge of Mexico help the US in any one way.
Is anyone watching Mexican TV? Which is the best coverage?
I'm going to kick myself in the morning I'll be so sleepy at work.
L.A. TIMES: "Confusion Grips Mexico Election"
LOL.
But they aren't trying to stir anything up or anything right?
Right!
Univision (Ch. 34 in L.A.)
If it weren't for work I wouldn't get any sleep at all.
Nah....
Galavision was providing pool coverage that everyone was carrying, Looks like they've packed it in for the night, and they're carrying wrestling now. La Reforma's front page has the updating results from the automated system. Refresh it on occasion to keep up. You'll find it here:
http://www.reforma.com/
Party | Actual | Actual % |
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Projected (by State) | Projected% |
Calderon | 11,114,215 | 37.12% |
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15,214,607 | 37.47% |
Dinosaur | 5,926,449 | 19.79% |
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8,283,017 | 20.40% |
Socialist | 10,889,811 | 36.37% |
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14,377,350 | 35.41% |
New Alliance | 293,970 | 0.98% |
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398,577 | 0.98% |
Alternative | 919,689 | 3.07% |
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1,217,116 | 3.00% |
Write-in | 221,861 | 0.74% |
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309,246 | 0.76% |
Null Votes | 577,490 | 1.93% |
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800,115 | 1.97% |
Total | 29,943,485 |
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40,600,028 |
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Precincts Reporting | 94,554 |
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Total Precincts | 130,788 |
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PR% | 72.30% |
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Haha ... at least it's a short day tomorrow.
Thank you. I'll check out Reforma again.
Looks like I'm going to have to watch KMEX ... I think that's Univision. When you don't want to watch Mexican TV it seems like every other channel is Spanish. Now ...
Maybe the long-awaited 'end of the Obrador count' is upon us. For the last ten minutes, his percentage has actually taken its first downard move all night. Unfortunately, Calderon's share also is falling, with Madrazo's count increasing. The percentage margin between the two at the top is now .87.
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