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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With 6.47%:
999,287 (40.34%) PAN
852,259 (34.40%) PRD
anything closely resembling a UN operation is immediately doomed to failure anyway.....
I knew I was making too much sense, I'm getting flamed for it, not by you though :)
No, no, no; It's Algore.
How long before Mexico City comes in?
Mexico City is probably zone 3 or 4, per reply #54.
For Mayor? I wish I knew. I can try to see the numbers for my precinct and they're not in yet. But it seems it will be PRD, I don't really put many hopes on anything else for Mayor.
Yeah the socialist won big for Mayor in Mexico City.
They called that, Mayor of Mexico City is PRD.
Circunscripción 1 165,100 74,031 70,915 1,249 27,949 Circunscripción 2 374,471 157,626 156,785 2,516 26,736 Circunscripción 3 118,797 87,684 147,152 1,298 25,050 Circunscripción 4 172,872 68,121 284,348 1,809 26,014 Circunscripción 5 168,047 76,541 193,059 1,583 24,739 40.34% 18.73% 34.40%
The state of Mexico will decide this. Fox won it big back in 2000.
I think Calderon may well have it.
I hope so.
Is that in the North?
" == Maybe ... they'll build their own wall to keep their people IN. :-) == "
They might. But I call your attention to the fact that keeping them OUT is OUR job, not theirs, and other than as protection for their own people, they have no duty to keep them from leaving.
Keeping the residents IN is a characteristic of asylums, prisons, and totalitarian regimes, and decidedly not a characteristic of democracies.
We have an absolute right to defend our borders and protect ourselves against invasion, and the government is responsible for exercising and enforcing that right. We should neither ask Mexico for permission nor demand their assistance to do so.
wonderful. they'll continue to push poor Mexicans from the south into the US.
I want Obrador to win. At least we'll know what we're dealing with instead of the two-faced Fox and Calderon.
You are completely insane.
Mexico City is within it. It's like how Washington DC is inside Maryland.
Thanks.
"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."
Judas priest, they pack in all the bias they can right off the bat, don't they? 'Anti-poverty campaigner' as opposed to the evil 'conservative ruler.' Baron Reuters is probably spinning like a top.
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